(To THE EDITOR OP TUB " SPECTATOR. ") Sin,---Coming from London
a few days ago, I had occasion to stop at North Road Station for lunch. For many years it has been my habit to take a little alcoholio drink with my modest lunch. On this occasion—at 3.5 p.m.—it was too late .to get ray half-pint of Bass at a cost of 20., so I ordered tea, which did not agree with my cold beef and pickles, left me uncom- fortable for two hours or more, and cost me 6d. instead of 21-d. Surely you can see that men, like me (and they must be counted by millions), who have taken a little beer or whisky for years, and believe it to be good for them, have a real grievance which is not removed by people telling us we should change the modest habits of a lifetime (I am seventy-four) laccanse a comparatively few people—who should be punished—drink to excess. The restrictions at railway stations to-day are, in my opinion,
monstrous.—I am, Sir, &c., J. $ Counts. Crinnis, Par Station, Cornwall.
[Our correspondent appears to forget that we are at war.— ED. Spectator.]
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