Each one is at his or her best.

It is a festival of delight.

But you cannot at this day give wine and brandy without stint to one or two or three hundred men and women of all ages, habits, temperaments and hereditary moral and physical conditions without the production of many evil consequences.
It matters little what the social condition may be; the hurt of drink is the same.

The sphere of respectability may and does guard many.
Culture and pride of position hold others free from undue sensual indulgence.

But with the larger number the enticements of appetite are as strong and enslaving in one grade of society as in another, and the disturbance of normal conditions as great.