Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-11
RECEIPT FOR MAKING DRuNKARDs.
BY THE LAUGHING DOCTOR.

Let the child nurse every time it cries,
and when weaned it is more than half a
dyspeptic. Now as often as it cries give
it piece of bread and butter, or lump
of sugar, and at the age of three or four
it will be confirmed dyspeptic. This
constitutes very important step towards
drunkenness. AT this age, thoughtless as
usually is the case, put quantity Of spice
cloves, cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg, ginger,
and other like condiments, into the little
boys victuals; increase the amount as he
grows older; and at the age Of ten or
twelve he will call for more, Give him
all that he can stand without bringing
tears to his eyes too often. At the age of
fourteen or sixteen he will conclude that
the more such stimulus he can use, the
more manly he is. pa, and Uncle, and
cousin George eat great amount of it.)
Now, if the boy calls for strong tea and
coffee and commences the use Of tobacco
he may be considered safe on the road to
ruin, and his mother has nothing more
to do to bring it about especially if her
son is under the influence of some beer
saloon, for the next step is rum, gin, and
brandy.
Mothers have you ever thought for one
moment that the morbid appetite which
calls for rum was formed at the table set
by your own hands, and increased step by
step until that noble form of your once
loved and dutiful son has fallen from the
nights of manly dignitude to the depths
of savage brute? Did you ever, for one
moment, think that your son would be
more liable to fall, with an appetite for
stimulus, than without it? Can he have
such an appetite without its being some
how formed? Can he cat such stimulus
every day, year after year, and be satisf ed
to stand still at any point? Does not
your son of fifteen years eat more con
diments-more than he did three years
since? Are you sure that here are not
thorn seeds that will spring upand pierce
your heart through in coming years? You
mot crs have more power to do away with
the evils of intcmpcrance in your fami.
{: lies than any other can have. Why, any
twenty of you, of ordinary influence
combined in any town, can do more tc
prevent drunkenness, by simply settin.
physiological tables, than the far fame(
Inebriatc Asylum at Binghamton ever Cal
do, holy as is its nilsson, Nearly my
whole life, we have been battling intem
3 perance. The press, the pulpit, and lega
enactmcnts, have come to our aid, and a!
yet but little accomplished. The truth is
we have fought the consequences, and no
the cause. The cause is at our table:
and firesides; the results are seen in tht
saloon, in the bar room, the penitentiary
and the gallows Bar rooms and saloons
are but steps, between our unphysiologica
tables, the penitentiary, and the gallows
When parents wish intemperancc donc
away with, bad enough to throw aside all
their coffee, spice-in short all Of Their
table condiments with tobacco, opium, al
of their sedativcs, and narcotics, then anC
not till then, can we expect our children
from going in hocks over to ruin. Ihes'
condiments are to the tree of intemperanc'
Just what Job says scent Of winter is t
the roots of the tree that has been Gu
down. Through their scent the evil con
tinues They supply the spongioles; th'
tree lives, anu can bear no other than it
legitimate fruit. To say that |, and dea
con S., or old father and mother B., ant
many others, have always eaten thcs
things, and never got drunk, it says moth
ing in favor Of the condiments. Love 0
appreciation, an iron will or sterling piet,
have kept, and will keep many this sid
Of the line Of propriety which they draw
for themselves and others, in spite of thei
, morbid appetite. But there are man,
who have no will, love of appreciation, 0
E picty; they cross the line of propricty
] and are lost-forever lost simply becaus
| their appetite demanded them to cross
How came they by these appetites? /? VIII