Since the advent of Prohibition nearly everybody I meet is drinking with an unbridled enthusiasm; and when not engaged in the act of drinking is discussing the latest and most approved methods of evading, circumventing and defying the Federal and State statutes against drinking.

Therefore I drink, too.

Even so, I have not yet succeeded in accustoming my palate to strong waters indiscriminately swallowed.

I confess to a fear that I shall never make a complete success of the undertaking.
I suppose the trouble with me is lack of desire.

Prior to the attempted enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment potable and vatted mixtures had but small lure for my palate, or my stomach, or my temperament.