Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — A Swedish Drinking Custom. [ARTICLE]

A Swedish Drinking Custom.

Sweden in a peculiar fashion. It is not enough that you should bow and place your glass to your lips. You must, also, after having sipped the wine, bow again, or, rather, you must retain the glass in your hand and, slightly bending over it, look for a moment straight in the eyes of him or her with whom yon are drinking. That is the custom, and a very pretty one it is, particularly when the eyes into which it is your duty to gaze have that depth of liquid blueness which nature has bestowed upon so many ma ds and matrons in that northern land.— Cor. Han Francisco Chronicle. According to the Medical Times and Gazette, there are thirty-four or thirty-five total-ahstiuenca men in the House of Commons. The fact is referred tp as “remarkable.”