1892 The flowing bowl when and what to drink (1892, c1891)

BEER.

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close of the seventeenth century, as its invention was made by Dom Perignon, of Hautvillers, during the time from 1670-1715. In the sixteenth century the German wine-grower, Peter Simon, took the vine from the Rhine to Malaga, which now supplies us with the most delicious wine. But it would take us too long, and it would very become annoying to our kind readers, to go fur- ther into details; only this must not be suppressed, that America's first discoverers, the Northmen, found ripe grapes in looo A. D., and named the unknown shore Vinland, a place supposed to be on the coast of Massa- chusetts. But the proper cultivation of wine in the United States reaches back not farther than to the be- ginning of this century. " BEER is a light, narcotic, alcoholic beverage, which charms us into a state of gladness and soft hilarity; it protects our hearts against stings of all kinds, awaiting us in this valley of misery; it diminishes the sensitive- ness of our skin to the nettles and to all the bites of the numberless, detestable human insects that hum, hiss, and hop about us. " The happy mortal who has selected beer as his pre- ferred stimulant imbeds greater griefs and joys in soft pillows; surely thus being wrapped up he will be able to travel through this stormy life with less danger. likely Seer.