Show yet bs he lived to ba be seventy london truth what do total abstainers abstain ers mako make of tho the following case caso which I 1 see reported in one of the papers aa an old gentleman hag has just died in france at the ripe age of seventy leaving behind him a log book of all that he has drunk for the last 69 years his habits in this res respect e t were very regular his daily alap allow 1 1 ano n being four litres laitres of wine seven pints a couple of glasses of absinthe before each of his three meals and twelve petits correa of cognac rum or some other spirit to drive away the tile despondency the total for the half century thus comes to wine pints absinthe classes glasses spirits Spirita glasses the old gentleman boasted that he lie had bad never had bad a days illness in his life and ho be certainly seems to have proved his point that a hard drinking man is not necessarily a short liver although very possibly sir wilfrid lawson would say that had bad this wine absinthe and spirit biber confined himself to water lie would have lived another twenty years |