Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-03-08


time ago lady, moving in the best
'circles of Cincinnati--a lady whose
fathers name was widely know as
an eminent banker and prominent
Christian philanthropist; lady whose
husbands voice had been listened to
with respect in the halls of Congress
and on the floor of the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church-she,
the child Of the Church was picked up
from the gutter by a policeman and
borne to her home drunk. How had
she come to this? She had never
tasted wine till her first child was
born. Her physician recommended
it to her as needful for the restora-
tion of strength. The demon soon
had the mastery over her. So has it
been with thousands of the noblest
of women-women of culture and re-
finement, of warm sympathies and
strong affections. In an evil hour,
recommended by the doctor-a man
of skill and eminence in his profession
TO take little wine, brandy, ale,
or bourbon, as stimulant, to give
strength and tone to the system, moth
ers have begun to use iptoxicants.-
Soon the temptation became irresisti-
BILE; and then followed such scenes
as described. Nor does the evil rest
with the parents. Oh! no. From
the very nature of alcohol children
suffer.
Sir Anthony Carlisle, has well
said, "Of all errors in the employment
of fermented liquors, that OF giving
them to children seems to be fraught
with the worst consequences. The
next in the order of mischief is their
employment by nurse, and which |
suspect to be a common occasion of
dropsy of the brain in young infants.
| doubt much whether the future NOR
al habits, the temper, and intellectual
propensities, are not greatly influenced
by the early effects of fermented liqu-
ors upon the brain and sensorial or
gans."
The plain fact is, that if alcoholics
are drank by mothers, the alcohol
goes into the milk, and is so given to
the child indirectly, and the effects
are all the same. 1t never improves
the quality, but makes it more watery
with less casein or nutriment9 and
even less oil, as analysis has often de-
monstrated what the effect is. DIR.
Inman states, i have known glass
Of whisky-toddy, taken by the mother,
to produce sickness and Indigestion in
the child twenty-four hours thereaf
ter"
DR.. E. Smith, in Practical Dietary,
makes a similar statement. Alec
hols are largely used by many per-
sons in the belief that they support
the system and maintain the supply
of milk for the infant; but ali con-
vinced that this is serions error, and
is not an unfrcquent cause of fits and
emaciati0n in the child"
We have no doubt that the convul-
sions. from which multitudes of child
ren die. arise in many instances from
inflammation produced by taking the
alcohol in the mothers milk. Danish
intoxicants from the sick room, let no
alcohol be taken by the mother. the
nutritious food with which nature has
supplied her for her infants not pois
oned, and not only will the health of
the mother be better, but the children
will suffer nothing from fatulency or
other complaints that torture infancy
nursed on milk poisoned with alcohol.
Their indigestion has not been Injured
or their tender nerves and brain ex,
cited by spirits in any form, and there
fore are healthy and strong. The
command given to Samson's mother
| was not arbitrary, but physiological.
Had his mother drank either wine or
strong drink, it would have required
| a constant miracle from God to ex-
tract the poisonous stimulant from his
frame, and to heal the hourly injuries
that would have inflicted on his stom-
ach, brain, nerves, and muscles. In
toxicating liquors might have made
weakling and a pigmy of Samson
And therefore God epjoined "total
abstinence" both on him and his moth
er.-Temperance Adcocate.
A BoTToMLEss JUG.-A clergyman
in his travels met with an emigrant
liourneying with his family to the fer
tile regions of the Mississippi. He