"Too many people are labouring under the impression that wine is a luxury which they cannot well afford, }But, leaving aside the finer wines which in fact, are only served on Department. He is returning to }Poinnd after "his successful accomplishment in" China to supervise new. highway construction which [Poland is about to embark upon.
Mr. T. S. Sth, a highways engineer of the Chinese' Government, will travel with Mr. Okecki to America and Europe. The excellent roads in the Civie Centre have been con-fructed under Mr, Sib's direction. ner special occasions, ordinary table wine, as is to be found in France in every workman's house, is just an every ]day's commodity like bread ar rice, utter or sugar. This wine cannel jand should not be considered as a luxury, a needless superfluous -addition to our daily diet, or a bever simply destined to" please the palate, but as a daily necessity, which really is.
"Prof. Leeper of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris and Lucien Alquier General Secretary of the Scientific Society of Alimentary Hygiene, say, the action of wine upon gastric juices rapid and powerful, and constitutes a first line defence against the possible local, oF general, toxicity of food that has been taken into the system. It increases the gastric secretions, accelerates digestion, and excites the liver by Increasing the secretion of ite.
"The great Pasteur himself said:
fine can rightly be considered as the healthiest and the most hygienic of drinks. This accounts for the fact that it is preferred to all others."
could just as well quote from English, German, or American sources to the same effect that nothing on earth has yet been found that can be compared to wine as a useful cleat food drink. For wine is a live solu tion, a milieu' of perfect chemical equilibrium vitalized by yeasts, ferments, diastases, and vitamins.
"Wine keeps healthy people from @iseases, and enables the sick to recover. "An inquiry by the British Medical Association has shown that, four of 4234 persons examined, the life of wine drinkers was €3 years gainst 9 for semi-abstinents has been proved also during the 'World War that the wounds sustained by French soldiers, whose rations, as all know, included wine, better known then as pinerd', would heal much quicker, other things being equal, than those of British, or Ger man soldiers.
"But you must not think for 2 moment that wine should be reserved for the sole use of grown ups. Wine will benefit children just as much as adults, and they can be given wine, especially red wine when they reach four years of age. "Wine does not only benefit young people physically, but it also aids their intellectual development.
'A Cheap Food "Wine is not a luxury, wine is a food, a good food and, what is more, especially in these days, wine isa cheap food. How many' of you do hot hesitate to pay a dollar for 3 cocktail, sixty cents for a packet of cigarettes or a glass of beer, without thinking that the same sum'can buy 2 bottle of good sound wine, which is really sun in bottles, and a better lue than anything you can think of.
"it means better health, more hap-mess and more joy. It means life. and a better life. Indeed, wine has been attacked, mostly for iis aleohelie contents. Put who, after siuJying tie components of wine, with its high percentage of rrinerai salts, glace tannin, and iron, can seriously be-Tieve that it has' the same effect as!
'a mere alcoholic solution of 9 or 10 per cent. It would be as foolish as to say that a solution of sodium chloride has the same properties as sea water for that a solution of 4 per cent. of bicarbonate of soda is the equivalent Jor, Vichy. water.
"But remember that moderation in the use of wine, as in the use of Jevery good thing that God has placed at our disposal, should be the rule."
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