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Show Troops Took to Drink. In his latest protest against tho lssuo of rum rations Sir Victor Hor sley states that tho habit of spirit drinking was flrst contracted by our troops during Marlborough's campaign In Flanders, says tho Tall Mall Gazette. Ga-zette. As n matter of fact, thoy acquired ac-quired this habit so far back as 1S85, when sent to aid tho Netherlands ngalnst their Spanish masters. In his "Annales of tho Itelgn of Queen Eliza-both"TJnmden Eliza-both"TJnmden writes: "Tho English, who of nil tho northern nations had been till now tho modcratest drinkers and most commended for their sobriety, sobri-ety, learned in thcso Nctherlnnd wars first to drown themselves with lm-modonito lm-modonito drinking, nnd by drinking others' healths to impair tholr own. And over slnco tlio vlco of drunkenness drunken-ness hath bo diffused Itself over tho wholo nation that in our days flrst it was fnln to bo restrained by sovero laws." |
