Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-12-12
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Contributed by Ladies of Washington Temper
ance Union.I
The PaIe-Faced Abstainers.

4hose who haYe talked about rosy Eng
llshmen and pale-faced Americans will
do we'll to study what an Englisman SAYS
about pale-faces" in the following extract
from speech by DR.. Richardson:
"Under the action of alcohol the re-
sistance to the current of blood through
the vessels is diminished. This is indi-
Gated in the flush of countenance that is
caused by wine in those who are unac-
customed to its use, in the flush which is
| permanently seated on the faces of so
many who indulge in something more
| than its moderate use, in the purple uni.
form of features which is worn by so
many of what are called the hard-drink-
ers of society. We see in all these the
external sign of that diminished resist
ance in the blood-vessels to the utterance
of blood which alcohol induces in differ
ent degrees.
cit has been one of the reproaches
thrown out by ordinary society against
the praCticing disciples of total absti-
nence that they are deficient in color, and
therefore, so runs the argument, deficient
in blood, or deficient in some quality of
blood. gave lecture not long since to
an audience of total abstainers from alco-
hOl in large hall, in which u multitude
of the worshippers of Bacchus had the
night before held high festival. I can
not quite report that the funeral of baked
meats did coldly furnish forth the mar
riage tables, but can report that, an
hour or so before my lecture, the odor OF
the feast was clearly perceptible in the
still laden atmosphere of wine, and I can
also report that one of my auditors, who
was present at the wine-feast of the pre-
vious day, was full of description of the
difference of complexion of the two meet
ings in regard to the visages of the com.
pany. He compared the Bacchanalians tt
the rosy morning, and the abstainers tt
the pale evening; but he admitted that il
matters of strength, or as he called it
'healthful solidity,' the abstainers were
by far the most promising specimens o
humanity.
'FThose who laugh at the abstemiou;
for being pale would be warranted il
laughing if it were the fact that the rec
face they so much admire was face in
dicative of health, and the pale face indi-
cative of disease. Unfortunately for theil
side of the case, that suffused face, tina
jolly red face, that dark red face is thu
face of disease, while the pale face is th'
face as nature meant it to be. Unfortu
) nately, also, for the 1aughers is the fac
that the red face is not simply skin-deep
and confined to the face. The same red
: ness extends to other and mere vital sur
: faces. The surfaces of the brain and 9th
er vital organs are congested in like man
| ner, according to the degree of injur.
{ that has been inflicted on the blood-ves
? sells by the paralyzing drug that is ae
: credited with so much usefulness.
| "There is an immense population liv'
ing from day to day in this semi-paral
L yzed condition of the circulation. They
2 are already, in the midst of their laugh
/ ter, half wrecked. They are easily over
= balanced by slight causes, and they al
most inevitably fall prematurely int
g death if they continue in their course
: Sometimes they fall from failure of tn
: heart; sometimes, under a little extr
n excitement, a vessel gives way in tn
: brain, and they become partially paral
t yzed, if they do not succumb Immediately
e Sometimes they get organic kidney {
e liver disease, or that consumption of til
t lung which have already noticed. Phys
= cally, the condition of the whole of tn
e members of this great population is yer.
i bad. They are the last that should NAL
. fun of the pale faces