Morris tribune., 1886-12-08
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY THE w. G. L. U.
TEMPERANCE THE KITCHEN.


women should let her influence be
cit, in the strongest possible manner,
md in every direction, against the
curse of the drinking habit. Concern
ng the danger of using alcohol for
purposes, Julia Colman
writes as follows:
The kitchen is very often the strong
hold ofthe drink habit in this country,
from the fact that great many OF our
inherited and imported recipes give
of wine or brandy, to say
of gin, rum and whisky.
These are rften carclesSly copied,
even Ivy our religious papers, and as
practiced 10y religious
people. If they have their attention
called to the matter, they may say
that the heat drives away the alcohol,
and nothing but the taste remains,
never seeming to think of the alb
Surdity of .upposing we could taste
the stuff if it were not there. But
this taste itrelf is the very thing to be
feared-whether 1t creates in Children
a familiarity with the liquors used,
and thus makes them in after years
an easy prey to the drink habit; or
whether it re-awakens in the re-
formed man the appetite which mas
done hum SO much mischief, ana
A pleasing instance where this was
happily avoided was lately related by
Mrs. DIR. Stephen Smith at a meeting
in the Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, Ms follows: "A guest, in whose
welfare We were deeply interested,
one day expressed to ne lively sat
islaction because the minee pie served
at dinner had contained no trace of
alcohol. He had feared the ordeal,
for, il Ii had tasted of brandy, he
would not have been able to control
the awakening appetite. l had no
suspicion that he had ever been adj
dicted Ia drink, but he informed me
that only a few years previous he had
been its bOnd-sIave, and that he was
Oblidged to watch continually against
anything containing the poison. l
was SO thankful that my temperance
principles had saved he from put
ting a stone Of stumbling in a
brothers. way, that l determined to
be more earnest than ever In calling
attention to this matter, and should
be glad to get recipes recommended
by any really good cook for the
preparation, on Il temperance basis,
of various dishes which usually con-
tain some kind of alcoholics"
WHY A PITTSBURG MAN WENT OUT
OF THE LIQUOR BUSINESS.
~ hear that Smith has sold-out his
saloon," said one ola couple of mid
dle-aged men who sat slipping their
beer and eating bit of cheese in q
Smlthfield street saloon last Friday
night.
EYES," responded the ether, rather
slowly.
"What was the reason? I thought
he was just coming money there"
The other nibb!ed a cracker alb
stractedly for Il moment, and then
said:
Its rather funny story. Smith,
yon know lives on Mount Washington
right near me, where he has an eX-
cellent wife, a nice home, and three
as pretty Children as ever played out
doors. All boys, you know, the oldest
not over 8, and all about the same
size. Smith is IL pretty respectable
sort of q citizen, never drinks or
CANDLES, and thinks the world of his
family.
''Well, he went home one afternoon
lest week and found his wife out shop
ping, or something of that sort. He
went on through the house into the
back yard and there under an apple
tree, were the little fellows playing.
They had bench and some bottles
and tumblers, and were playing keep
saloon. He noticed that they were
drinking something out of q pail, and
they acted tipsy. The youngest who
was behind the bar, had towel tied
around his waist, and was setting the
drinks up pretty free. Smith walked
over and looked in the pail. 1t was
beer, and two OF the boys were so
drunk that they staggered A neigh
bors boy, a couple of years older, lay
asleep behind the tree.
my God, boys, you must not drink
that, he said, as he lifted the six-year
old from behind the bench.
"We's playin' s'lOon papa, anil was
. seIlin' it just like you, said the little
follow. Smith poured out the beer,
carried the drunken boy home, and
then took his own boys and put them
to bed. When his wife came back
she found him crying like a child. He
came back down town that night and
sold out his business, and says he will
never sell or drink another drop of
liquor. His wife told mine about it
and she broke down crying while she
told it."
This lie true story, but the name
was changed.-Pitsburg Dispatch.
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What true merit will do.