1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

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has recently found the text of a temperance lec- ture delivered by an Alexandrian professor named Amenemann to Petaur, a student. that you neglect your studies to go from beer-room to beer- room. Now I tell you whoever drinks beer is dis- gusting. The odour of beer drives people away from you and callouses your soul. You delight, then, to run against a wall and to break in a door. Your reputation is notorious — it is written on your face. Do not think of the cup any longer. Forget the mug and the accursed hag ; as it is, you drum on your stomach daily, you stumble, you fall upon your stomach.' In Strabo's time beer was called barley wine and was drunk generally in Alexandria. The pre- paration of barley beer to take the place of wine was supposed to have been taught by Osiris. Several recent German writers have a theory that beer brewing was introduced into Europe from Egypt. ' I have heard,' said the professor, '