The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-05-16
TEACH THE Bors ABOUT RI.


At home and at school the boys should be
taught the natural effect OF alcohol upon the
processes OF human life,
/. They should be taught that it can add
nothing whatever TO the vital forces, or to the
vital tissues-ihat it never enters into the ele-
ments Of structure.
2. They should be taught that it disturbs
the operation OF the brain, and that the mind
can get 10 help from it which is to be relied
upon.
flames the baser passions, aud debases the feel
Jugs.
(. They should be taught that an appetite
for drink is certainly formed in those who use
1t, which destroys the health, Injuries the char
acter and, in millions of instances, becomes
rninous to fortunes aud to all the high interests
of the soul.
8. They shonld be taught that crime aud
pauperism are directly caused by alcohol.
So long as &400, 600 are daily spent for drink
in England, aud probably S2,000,000 per day in
the United States, lea wing little else to show
for its cost bat diseased stomachs, degraded
homes, destroyed industry, increased psuper-
ism, aggravated crime, the boys should under
stand the facts about alcohol, and be able to
act upon them in their earliest responsible
conduct.-Union Signal.
The following incident is, related by Miss
Willard, as having come under her observa-
ton at an election in the West.
a bloated German beer-drinker was brought
in to vote the "whiskey ticket" when the
Germans children, fresh from the Band OF
Hope procession, hurried forward tho little
girl, her arms around her fathers neck. and
saying with tears, Papa, please vote for us al
bome," and the boy who was cripple taking
him by the hand with the same plea. ZACH,
mein Colt, dis vas too muchl' exclaimed the
German, breaking away from the man who
had counted on him, and going up TO the bal
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him, while she held one hand and the lame
boy hobbed on the other side as guardian.
Not an eye that looked upon the group could
see it clearly because of tears. "a touch a
nature makes the whole world kin"
A Sunday school teacher In Michigan, at the
close of the lesson on a recent Sunday, hand.
ed to her scholars little slips of paper on which
Was printed the question, what have to be
thankful for?'' asking that each should take
time to consider and answer on the following
Sunday. Among the replies that were then
given, was the following pathetic sentence,
written by little girl who had doubtless
learned by bitter processes the painful truths
It told. II am thankful that there are no rum
shops in heaven"
Michigan comes to bear Vermont company
in the matter Of compulsory temperance In.
instruction In its schools, as will be seen by
the following amendments to its school laws
passed April %. The people OF the State Of
Michigan enact that the district board shall
specify the studies to be pursued in the schools
OF the district; Provided dItCdns That provis.
ion shall be made for instructing all pupils In
every school in physiology and hygienne, with
special reference to the effects alcoholic drinks
stimulants, and narcotics generally upon the
human system.
No certificate shall be granted any person 10
teach In the schools of Michigan who shall not
pass q satisfactory examination after Septem-
Der J., 1884, in physiology and hygienne will
particular reference to the effects OF alcoholic
drinks, stmulants, and narcotics upon the hu
man system Chap. 3, Sec. 3.