London, June 23, 1933.
It is, perhaps, a sign that] England is beginning to think more robustiously that the Vintners' Company is holding a loan exhibition of drinking vessels, besides 'MSE, and books about the art of Grinking for the private view of which to-day T had the honour of receiving an. invitation. I fear there are implications in that} sentence which may offend some of your readers. But the fact that Zome people brutalize themselves with alcohol does not alter the further fact that wine has been an indispensable part of innumerable happy occasions, and on the score of morality To not see how you fan escape the evidence of Cana of Galilee, "One of the greatest con: noisseurg of wine T-ever knew (he red at the age of 85, after ax temperate a life as ever was. lived) tired to say scornfully, "The man} who drinks beer thinks beer." What he would have eaid of the man Kaparilla ("raspberry vinegar, Jemonade and such-like Sunday-school slops, they all produce dyspepsia and are the cause of half the crime in England") on hardly imagine, Since England, in recent years has undoubtedly learnt to drink wisely, she may surely encouraged to drink well. Cer Jy the lovely bowls and flagons and goblets in Vintners' Hall, could fever be associated with ideas of excess, but Father with courtly man: ners; classical conversation and pregnant silence, while the glowing Fragrance. of the Cockburn or Quarles Harris is diffused among] the company.
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