Moderate Drinking Is The Way To Go

The museum in Serowe contains some very interesting artifacts from Botswana's past. Hanging on a wall inside the cool space of the old colonial era building, is a small framed picture. It is in fact an embroidery, It was lovingly and painstakingly made on a piece of cloth using a needle and silk thread of different colours.

What makes it so fascinating is who made it, to whom it was presented, and its relevance to the present time.It was made by a group of women in Scotland around 1895. Those Victorian ladies, in addition to their skill with needle and thread, were strictly religious and strictly teetotal.

They came from a growing temperance movement which saw alcohol as the devil's own brew, the wreaker of havoc and the destroyer of family life and social stability in Britain at that time, particularly among the poor.

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