DRINKING AT BARS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 16 June 1880, Page 2

DRINKING AT BARS.

♦ — The Boston Traveller says : — " The social habit of drinking at bars, where eaoh member of a party having been ' treated ' by another, considers it necessary to treat each other member, has at last attracted the attention of lawmakers. The fowa Legislature has a Bill before it to abolish the custom, and make it a punishable offence ; and, although such a proposition can never become law, it is significant as showing public dislike of a custom whioh no drinking man wants to be the first to disregard. This habit of standing treat is the cause of more physical and mental discomfort than every other convivial custom combined. A resp^ctaMe man who feels thu need of a glass of wine or spirits—and there are hundreds of thousands of .uch men, in spite of all that the temperance people say to the contrary —approach us a bar, and finds, perhaps, several acquaintances who are drinking, and who invite him to join them. When he has done so, and drank all he came for, his spirit of independence prompts him to return the invitation, which is accepted by the others because it would seem discourteous to refuse 5 then those who have been treated make haste to return the eonp.inient f 0 i* tear of se.U-ing mean oncl the end is, that (our or fi.e men ei.ch of whom came for a singlo glass of liquor, retire with several times as much as tiiey needed or wanted."