Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-19

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Alcohol tn the Kitchen and the Sick
Room. -.
Mrs Is. B. Cone, Boston; All depart
ments of hygiena, those relating to our
food, dress, sleep, temperature and the
air we breathe, are very truly in the
line of temperance work, onthe ground
that san n of prevention is worth
a pound Of cure" Our beloved nation
al president, Miss Willard, wise and
great in her ability to grasp details no
less than supendous plans, never fails,
either in her annual address. or a spe-
cial lea1et, to plead with W. Ct. U.
mothers to carefully exclude from the
table such condiments, or rich ihdiges-
tible articles of food as shall induce de-
bility or irritation Of the stomach, so
liable to be followed by a craving for
stimulants. She advises women who
would help 1nebriates to recover, to
provide appetizing substitutes for the
beef which but keeps upthe excitement
of the nerves, the abused stomach not
having tone or power to assimilate it.
This is a valuable hint for nervous SUI
ferers produced by any cause whatever.
But in the few minutes that I should
take this afternoon, / should confne
attention to the direct effects of alco-
holics, including wine, ale, beer and
cider, upon health Of body and mind.
Where does it touch us first and often
est? When we ask our friends and
neighbors to enroll their names in pro-
test against the awful cruelty and dis
honor, and crime with which the drink
ing habit is filing our land, s%addening
and embiitering our laboring men and
women, bruising, ahd starving, and
crushing with care and shame such
crowds of poor little children, do we
find that what keeps one and another
aloof, is the pledge? And it binders
women who have none Of these things
on their table as beverages. The temp
tation ONE in q subtler guise than
that to true women, whom I believe
would not hesitate at the sacrifice if
they realized the need. l don't think
that Il vanity as housekeepers and
dainty cooks weighs a tenth as much
as our love for the sick friend to whom
it is such a pleasure to send the wine
jelly, or for the husbands and sons
whose weary appetites we mistakenly
stimulate with wine sauces at hurried
dinners. Now if we can show that the
sick friends recovery is retarded in
some degree by the reaction inevitably
consequent upon the stimulus of the
wine jelly and that orange or lemon
jelly would be in all cases more refresh.
ing to the invalid, then it surely will be
substituted. And we need only to set
mothers and sisters eyes on the alert
to observe the beginnings Of sorrow
within every ones view, arising from
these same %jellies, frozen buildings,
pudding sauces, and ices favored with
alcoholics, set out upon home tables.
Let me read you two little bits from a
%leaflet, "Alcohol in the Kitchen,p which
should be in the stock of every union
for individual giving: ga physician,
prominently connected with one of the
life insurance companies Of this state,
made to me the following statement of
facts: OF 622 moderat and immoderate
drinkers with whom [ have conyersed,
1877 tell me they acquired the desire for
wine and other alcoholic poisons by
their use in articles of diet and in the
family and social circle, dealt out to
them by their wives and sisters and fe-
male friends. OF this number, 161 cas-
es, (more than twenty-five per cent?
were from the use of liquors in articles
of diet. Of the whole number referred
to, 1928 fill a drunkard's grave, II died of
mania a potul, and five by suicide" 81
have sometimes thought what / should
do if Fred took to drinking, said a not
able housekeeper to a friend. ut is SO
dreadful what if it should come into
my dish" At the same time she was
mixing in liquor with Fred's dainty
dishes. And one day, when he missed
the old wine flavor in the pudding sauce
on the table, he p%etulantly tipped his
chair back and refused to eat any of
the food. The dreaded shadow came
ultimately, and the friend spoken Of
above thought that the hand of the
mother that stirred the wine into the
sons food. had mixed the fatal glass
g. =.