Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-04-18
TEMPERANCE SCRAPS.

Punch is the cause of many unfriendly
punches.
Ale causes ailings, and beer stretches many
upon their bier
The old world and the new May there
be nothing but cold water between them.
Canter and decanter \ canter will give
You rosy cheeks a decanter will give YOU a
rosy nose.
What people have geographical reason
for not getting drunk Those who live in
the temperate zone.
toast May no young man become
welded to his cup and he who has a wife,
may he never lick her Qiquor).
Swimming Why may a drunken man
fall into a river with IMMUNITY? Because he
won drown as long as his head swims.
Nose above brandy: " The times are
hard, wife, and | find it difficult to keep my
nose above water. - You could keep your
nose above water, if you did not keep it so
often above brandy, replied the wife.
\ Tax DR.. Lyman Beecher once said
~ Should foreign army land upon our shores
| to levy such tax upon Us as intemperance
leyies, no mortal power could resist the tide
Of swelling Indignation that would over
whelm it.
Little sins A little hole in a ship sinks
| it a small breach in a sea bank carries all
away before it little stab in the heart kills
a man and a little sin. a. it Is often impro-
perly called, tends to his final destruction
Whatever sin the heart is prone TO, that the
devil will help forward \ little drop has
began with single glass.
\ gentleman, the other day, saw his little
daughter dipping her doll-baby's dress into
tin cup, and inquired, ''What are YOU
doing, my daughter?'' d" I'm coloring nv
dolls dress red, =. What with ," " With
beer - D." What put such foolish notion
into your head, child? You can't color red
with beer d" Yes, | can, pa because ma
said it was beer that made your nose 50
red :" And the gentleman had business that
required him to be down town immedi-
ately.
The frog is a hydropath. He has faith
in water as a beverage, and he uses it freely
for bathing purposes. He believes in the
sitz-bath, the plunge-bath, the douche-bath,
the spray-bath, the shower-bath, and the
fountain-bath. He is spry, jolly fellow
and, although he keeps late hours, and sings
from sunset until daybreak, he is never in
debted to stimulants for his song and cheer
ful merits. In the language of one of our
humorists Z" lie can swim faster and leap
higher; dive deeper and come up drier than
the most active rum-drinker. &C. w. Bun
gav.
The grand practical conclusions are these:
i That alcohol is not food and that, be-
Ing simply stimuiant of the nervous sys-
TEN. its use is hurtful to the body of a
healthy man. ,. That if its inhibition be of
service, it is so only to a man in an abnor-
NAL condition and that our duty, as men of
medicine, is 20 endeavor to define what those
particular abnormal states are in which alco-
holic drink is serviceable, 8. That ord mary
social Indulgence in alcoholic drinks, for So
eiety's sake, is, medically speaking, a very
unphysiological and preiudicial proceeding
British Medical Journal.
1t would be easy to prove unanswerably
that alcoholic beverages are injurious to those |
who use them. The famous athlete, Tom |
Sayers, was once asked by a gentleman,
are training, YOU use plenty of beessteaks,
anu i-'iiuo" t'oiVel' anu ptle aie Inc
boxer replied, - In my time have drunk |
more than was good for me but when | |
have business to do there's nothing Ike ,o0ter |
and the dumb-bels.r After retiring from |
- business, - he took to drink and died a sot. |
Cold water made him Samson alcohol laid |
him in his grave. As matter of personal |
health and long life, 50 it is good not to
drink wine,' as an example to Others, total
abstinence rs a Christian uirtue.-T. l.. Guy
Ter, ID. ID.
tale of misery-The cocktail.
A New Hampshire paper says: The
ladies' temperance movement at Concord is
assuming large proportions, and their NAM
moth petition to the Mayor, calling upon
him to carry out the directions of the City
Government for the suppression of the liquor
traffic, will soon be presented. The petition
contains the names Of hundreds Of ladies