Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-17
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LANCASTER, APRIL IL, 1855.
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AS the child ought not to be put out to
a strange nurse, the aims and purposes of |
the people who framed and secured the
passage of the 'hygiene" school law can
best be gathered from the way in which
they propose to administer it. AS has been
noted, Mrs. Hunt, the author and agitator |
of the statute is also the author of book
made to fit it. She has prepared in the
name and by the authority of the
National Department of Scientific In
struction of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, Of which she is
superintendent, oracle and apostle, a
book for which she has secured the en-
dorsement of the authority upon which she
largely draws for its statements; and which
her publishers, with the characteristic mod
esty of their race, offer to the thousands of
school boards and tens of thousands of
school teachers who are henceforth, under
compulsiOn, to teach and have taught to all
the scholars of all their schools, i'm all
branches of the subject, the hygienic eff
fects of alcohol and narcotics. ..
Mrs Hunts book, like her law, is spec
tally directed to alcohol and tobacco, with
incidental reference to other branches Of
hygiene and physiology. 1t opens with
the striking statement that people do not
usually drink clear alcohol" as might be
inferred from her law but this is iinma-
terial in view Of the great scientific fact
that "rum, whisky, wine, cider, gin,
brandy, beer, ETC., - are simply water and
alcohol with different favors ;" alcohol
is a poison, and deaths of men, women
and children from poisonous doses of it are
common; their number has been accurate
ly determined at 6O,06G per year death
turks in the cider barrel as well as sits
astride the beer bung, and :" it is mistake
TO suppose that because grapes, apples, and
barley are healthful food, that wine, cider
and beer, made from them must also b,
healthful.n "Cigarettes," this invaluabl,
book teaches, care one of the worst posi-
be preparations of tobacco " and ''sent
more poisonous fumes" into the system
than even the pipe or cigar; I" drinking
men are almost always smokers an,
chewers,' and generally begin on the down
ward road, the book mildly intimates b.
picking "old cigar stumps out of the gut
ter" After that tdcilis deScenSuS Ace,ni
Not satisfied with absorbing the subec
of hygiene and physiology, this official an
authorized text book of the new stud
scars into the realms of arithmetic and pre-
pounds number of neat calculations 70
the youthful mind, such as the familia
problems of how much one would save il
hnI 4 ,,alrn g..
worth of cigarettes every day, and " no,
puch will the expense of treating be likel
to increase the amount one spends fo
alcohol and tobacco" The teache
who is directed to impress this de
partment of the work on the youn!
mind will be apt to be staggered, by havin
poked at him the melancholy and perpleA
ing example of so many who smoked an
grew rich, and of others who smoked nc
and stayed poor but the bewildered peda
gogue will find no relief in this marvel G
scientific text books.
In order that the book shall meet th
strict requirements Of the law, and teac
the baleful effects of narcotics " in ever
branch of the subject" the chapter o
DciiSo anu Joilto 10 CuINCuCu ~
the observation that tobacco "stunt
tho bones and dwarfs all the growt
of the child - fond parents who have sui
stituted the pipe for the bottle will n
longer suckle infants with nicotine whe
the common school system has bee
leavened with this new inspiration. eide
has about the same percentage of alcohC
haar. and lilo hnrno p,aha ruinac
no more innocent drink than champaign
or port; the ''poison" is there, "ready to d
its deadly work." and "many of those VIII
die as drunkards in this country, bega
their course at the cider barrel" The il
mates of inebriate asylums, it is taugh
have nearly all been "users of tobacco.
BY the same token no doubt, they coul
nearly all read and write, too. Liver Jung
kidneys and every branch Of the subject
are treated with the same Especial refe
ence" to alcohol and narcotics and it
related that 1000 drinking men died of ye
low fever in New Orleans before it touche
single sober person.
The awful prevalence of liquor drinkiI
is easily explained by the distinguishe
authoress in America only few yea
ago " cider and rum were found in Il
cellar and on the table of nearly evel
farmer" and no wedding, funeral or pu
lie gytberng Of any sort was without j
free liquor" We have all inherited Il
taste for the poison and are only safe fro
an uncomfortable desire by refraining fro
even wine jelly"
This. is the rot that the authors of tn
new legislation propose to have taught |
out public schools. 1t is rot, rot, ROT.
Queer Cancer.
General Grant is dancing around h
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