is a nursery tale. Sneaks? greater happiness and health of primitive man. That In a letter on this subject in the Chicago Record- 128 with the greater comfort and happiness of life. For, gress not only to force through the Littlefield bill, or Efforts are to be made at the coming session of Con- become "drunk as a lord," and among primitive people, ously in the papers by the Washington correspondents. let us give up once for all the old legend about the Are We Going to be Turned Into a Nation of possibility of such an enormity is discussed quite seri- ever the cause, the fact is that temperance has grown a similar one, placing interstate shipments of liquor even in our own midst, to be a "hearty eater" is an ac- that where there is plenty there is less desire. What with the improvement of material environment and under state control; to forbid the issuing of liquor dealers' tax stamps in "dry" states and districts, and ago that it was the proper thing at a dinner party to other measures aimed at the liquor traffic, but also to make the District of Columbia itself dry. And the complishment. It is one of the ideals of the human mind on lower levels of culture. A Nation of Sneaks? Perhaps, it is that familiarity breeds contempt, or