Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

chance of catching pneumonia and then
haven't strength to fight against it.
s'The habit OF taking adrink, a stimulant,
before breakfast cannot be condemned toe
stfangly. 1t will in time ruin the stomach
and the digestive organs. A man who ma
bitually drinks whisky before his breakfast
does not care for his breakfast when it il
placed before him, and frequently goes away
to his business leaving it untouched and re-
sorting to more stimulant to maintain his
strength throughout the day. This habit is
another bad one. 1t tends to
SHORTEN LIFE
and ultimately a man will break down. I
think the most injurious drinks that are
taken nowadays are whisky, rum, brandy
and gin. Beer as now manufactured very
seriously Injuries the kidneys. 1t contains
from to per cent alcohol. The. Ger
mans, as nation, are great beer drinkers,
but their beer only contains from n to
per cent alcohol. Light wines, such as
claret and Rhine wine, drunk with meal
and moderately, will not harm anybody or
non-alcoholic drinks, of course milk is the
oest. One can live on milk altogether. 1t
is food, and is more valuable than people
generally give it credit. The first thing in
the morning one should drink water, cold or
hot is immaterial. Persons suffering from
dyspepsia usually take hot water, and claim
that they find a great deal of relief from It,
Some drink hot milk and some drink cold
milk. Liqueuers are very bad.
Whisky contains 48 per cent of alcohol,
and liQuerers contain almost twice as much.
A man who maintains his strength entirety
by means of stimulants will ultimately
break down. 1 never yet met man who
could not live without drink. There are 8
great many who claim that they must have
stimulants in order to do the work they
have to do, and to go through the mental
strain they have to. This is all fallacv. II
they were to live carefully and regularly,
take proper and nourishing food, take proper
and nourishing drinks, they would find that
after giving it fair trial. they would feel
great deal better than when they were living
entirely supported by stimulsnts-
MILK AND WATER BEST.
DR.. Sara B. Chase, of No. 226 West
Thirty-ninth street, is one of the most proml-
nent women physicians in the country. She
is a woman of extreme ideas, calls herself
Socialist, reformer, a free-trader and
Democrat She is proud though, of saying
that 80 years ago she was an Abolltion1st.
DR.. Chase has extreme ideas on the drink
ing question. She SAYS there is only one
thing she is opposed to more than she is TO
alcoholic drink, and that is tobacco in any
form. Talking recently on the drinking
custom, she said that she thought it was on
the increase in this country, and will be on
the increase until the class of drinks that
are offered for sale are not injurious. II it
were possible that the Legislature could
pass a law insisting that saloon keepers
should sell pure wines, pure beer and pure
spirits, there would be far less intemper-
apce than fhara IL ar praSanf
81 think such law would do more for
the temperance cause, said DR.. Chase, "than
any prohibition or other law that could be
passed. The wines, spirits and beers that
are sold now are sold chiefly to make men
drink more. In Europe, in France in par
ticular, where great deal of wine is drunk,
there is less intemperance than there is in
this country. In Germany, where they
drink more beer than in any other country,
less number of persons get drunk on it than
are to be found, according to the statistics
published, in this country. In Scotland and
Ireland, where they drink pure Scotch and
Irish whisky, the evil effects are not SO
great as the effects of whisky drinking in
this country.
1.-The best kind of non-alcoholic drink
that can be taken is chocolate. Chocolate
is kind of heavy food; it is nourishing and
has no action whatever upon the heart and
nerves. Coffee is a stimulant. Tea acts
upon the heart, and anyone suffering from
heart trouble ought not to drink it. Milk
is a food, and too much cannot be taken.
About wines, spirits and liquors I know
nothing except that they are bad"