The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-06-21
AN 0BJEcT LESSON.
sFrscrs or ALCOHOL ufos rHn BRAIN.

Upon each question in the following exer-
else, answers should be drawn from the chill
dren as fully as possible, without allowing it
TO become tedious or wearisome indeed
fatigue orweariLess should aepsr be allowed
to associate themselves with moral Or religious
instruction in the minds Of children.
Question. Children what makes men drink ?
Answer (sotto vocc). /" Whiskey, . wine,
I" brandy, '.beer" g cider,'' . peach
brandy" ETC. Add to the list any drinks the
children may omit, as also bitters, patent
medicines, and many of the liquid prescrip-
tons given by physicians.
@. How do men act when they are drunk !?
A. Fall down, =" fight, = ssswear, . clean
against the fence," break all the dishes, .
whip their wives,' kill people, ssbeat
their horses" see snakes" etc.
@. Why do drunken men do these things,
which they would not do if sobera
A. !" Because they havn't got any sense .
don't know anything {" "don't know what
they are about" etc.
@. When people have lost their sense, and
don't know what they are about, what do we
soy 10 ehS hiuttSl Win tuthl
A.: "They arc crazy"
@. There is just one thing in all those
drinks which you enumerated which makes
people drunk, and il you could take that out,
then they would never produce drunkenness
more than water does. What is IL?
A. Alcohol. (Here exhibit seine alcohol
Q. wise doctor says that if you should
give teaspoonful of this to the baby at
home it would kill the baby, and If you should
take tablespoonful yourselves 1t would kill
some of you and iniure others of you, SO that
it would be very hard to cure you. A few
weeks ago two boys drank whiskey and one
of them died, and they thought the other
would. When things kill like that what do
we call them.
A. Poison
@. Yes, and being drunk is just being
poisoned, and we will show you how this
poison makes you crazy.
@. Children what makes the engine go?
A. Steam.
@. What makes you "go"S You are al
ways on the go--never still--as your teacher
and mother well know. What is it that
makes you "go"?
A. "Life," strength" legs etc.
O. But that is not the answer l want.
rhere is Something makes you "gon as
steam does the engine. The engine is dead,
cold, wheels and machinery but put water
in the boiler, and fife under it get up steam,
and it is all alive Wien you are dead you
will be like the cold engines there IL now Tut
something that makes you all alive-makes
you go? What is it
A. e. Mind is the answer desired, but
usually several leading questions must be
asked TO elicit this answer It is best, how
ever, to draw it from the children, and then
explain that "soul," Esprit" are other
names for the sanie.)
A. Head, y "bran."
In what part of the body does the mind
| live2
+, Yes, in the brain. That is the house the
mind lives in, and if anything happens to the
brain something happens to the mind. just as,
if anything happens to the house you live in,
it is burned, or falls down. sonnet hing happens
to you. The mind makes the body ego . by
little telegraph wires that carry not only the
oruer to move to your hands and feet and
different parts of the body, but also the power
to move. These wires are called nerces
Now explain briefly to the children how
drinks; as water; ETC., are disposed of, being
removed Immediately from the stomach di-
rectly into the blood: Alcoholic drinks,
taken into the stomach, are disposed of IN the
same way, and getting at once in the blood,
go with it to the heart, lungs, liver, brain,
and all through the body. In the stomach il
burns the stomach, as though you had eaten
GOALS of fire, and through the veins as though
it was boiling water instead Of blood rushing
through them. But worst of all Is the
damage to the brain. II much blood goes to
the brain; much alcohol goes along, for it
goes where the blood does, if you have been
drinking. True, blood does keep going to
the brain; because the brain must have 1t to
keep going
AT this point place small portion 5f the
white of ali egg in a small, clear glass, con-
tanning alcohol, allowing the children TO see Il Q
entire process of pouring the alcohol from the
bottle add the egg from the shell. Stir it,,
that the change may take place moro rapidly,
that the children may witness it without being
detained too long. At the same time, show
them some egg that has been in the alcohol
for a few hours, as 1t requires two hours to
become hardened entirely through, and the
children should see both the process and the
result.
q. What should you think has happened to
this egg from its appearance
Al. 1t is cooked.
@. Yes, just as your mother sometimes
breaks eggs into boiling water and you have
poacled eggs"
Children, your brain Is composed almost
entirely $40 of the very same material as
the white of the egg, which is called aybumen,
and wherever alcohol finds albnmen il hard. ems
or " cooks it in this same way.
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