An officer from Japan, visiting America, one day, while looking
about a big city, saw a man stop a milk-wagon.
“Is he going to arrest the man?” he asked.
“No,” was the answer; “he must see that the milk sold by this
man is pure, with no water or chalk mixed with it.”
“Would chalk or water poison the milk?”
“No; but people want pure milk if they pay for it.”
Passing a whisky saloon, a man staggered out, struck his head
against a lamp-post, and fell to the sidewalk.
“What is the matter with that man?”
“He is full of bad whisky.”
“Is it poison?”
“Yes; a deadly poison,” was the answer.
“Do you watch the selling of whisky as you do the milk?” asked
the Japanese.
“No.”
At the markets they found a man looking at the meat to see if it
was healthy.
“I can’t understand your country,” said the Japanese. “You watch
the meat and the milk, and let men sell whisky as much as they
please.”
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=Poison Pleasures=--See PLEASURES, POISONOUS.