WINE AND WIT | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 25, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 46.

WINE AND WIT.

"WINE in, wit out." And yet that old saying is only true after a certain stage of the game has been passed. Many men, and even most men, are more witty and facetious after a drink or two of wine than before. It doesn't take a young man long to find out that he can say more funny things, and make more laughs at his witticisms, when he is a trifle cocked than when he is his own natural self. When he finds himself in company with others, and all are trying to be cute, it is perfectly natural that he avail himself of every means within his reach to "keep his end up," as the saying is. So he hoists in a few drinks, and in his revised shape he finds no difficulty in raising a laugh at will. In fact, he is more of a fellow drunk than he is sober, and he knows it. But he goes on and forces the machinery too hard, until, instead of being funny, he gets either idiotic or ugly, and then the very fellows who admired and applauded him call him a hog, and want the bartender to fire him. This sort of thing goes on night after night, until the fellow grows to be a regular drunken bummer, and don't amount to anything drunk or sober. Young man, look the matter over and see if this doesn't hit your case. See if you don't take more drinks to make you funny than for any other reason.—Danville (N. Y.) Breeze.