Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 59, 25 November 1893 — Large Feet and Beer Drinking. [ARTICLE]

Large Feet and Beer Drinking.

■ ■ There is a reason for everything. even for large feet. A scientiflc <ierman !e said to have discovered that it istherts dtof driuk:ug beer. Phrenologists have hitlierto limited tiieir inquiries to liie bumps ui»on our heads, they may haveto extend them to our feet. lt will be a new argument for the temperance reformer, but at the same time it will be uither hardship for some teetotal- . rs. Iudigestion has brought tuany a good abstainer under suspieion by giving him a red nose, aud now hie feet are turning »ainst him, for if they happen to I e large by nature hia enemies >vill - •it is beer. It is verv hard, b-.it >ince he wiil be a martyr to science he ought to be happy. A physiciin. of New Y'ork, at a 1 ttle gathering there recently, told me of the first professional eall? bya fellow-practitioner. He - . i for by a rich. but avari- . i> lan, who had dislocated bis j . The young surgeon proraptly 1 u the meraber in plaee. ‘*\Vhat is your bill, doctor?” asked the patient. ‘*Fifty dollars, sir.” ‘*(ireat and the man opened his n >utl so wide as to dis!ocate his j,( a second time. The physician ag. in put things to rights. “\Vhat did you say your hill was?" again a>ked the patient. ** I said it was fifty dollars; now ii is one hundred doliars.’’