The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-23
TCXICANTS,
Their Effects on Children.

HE who IS fOrewarned, is fOrearmed,"
at least he should be, if the enemy or
1 thing IS such as to be feared. The object
| of this communication is 10 forewarn the
| boys and young men against all kinds of
/ toX1cantS, stimulants or excitauts. So
| few are given to yforethought, to examin-
ing cause and effect. though seen daily
! that l thought a few facts would put
some fathers and mothers and young men
TO thinking 1 claim nothing as original
but the using of knowledge, facts and
truths
TOBACCO.
1t is a fact, prominent fact and truth,
| that tobacco and alcohol are doing more
to undermine the mental and physical
constitution than all other toXicants. BY
! tOXicants / mean stimulants, excitants
/ and nerve desUOyerS. If medical investi-
cation and examination are worth any
thing, let US see what is said on the sub
Ject. Says DR.. l.. w. Fox: Tobacco and
alcohol are the two most prominent
agents, which not only prevent, but also
/ destroy special senses.n Habit, we are
told, rs the nurse of man. Then how
! important to avoid a habit which grows
| with wonderful rapidly. and which clings
/ to one in life like a leach or an Unborn
! chronic disease which defes all treat
/ ment.
BOYS AND TOBACCO.
1t is well authenticated fact that
| boys who have INDUCED in the use of to-
| baccO are not mentally and physically as
| strong as those who abstain. The weak
| ening and depression of the vital force in
! boys and young men who are constant
| users of tobacco, not to say anything of
! alcohol, is seen in the fact that athletic
/ trainers will never select their man from
such. Their staying force is deficient.
! Tobacco weakens the heart, hence every
! other organ of the body.
Such being the fact, 80 states have
| passed laws forbidding the sale of to-
! bacco to boys 1t is the duty of the state
| to pass sanitary laws for the health of
! the people. All this stuff about individ-
| ual freedom to do as you please with your
| body, belongs not to an enlightened peo-
| pie; but to Savages and half-civilized peo-
| pie. Man, after all, Is but big, grown up
| boy, with maturity on his side but rid of
! personal restraints and how he abuses
! himself is seen daily.
TOBACCO AND THE EYE.
! The free use of tobacco in smoking and
! chewing, the nicotine taken into the sys-
| TEN, not only Weakens the muscles of the
! eye. but produces a lowering of the
! sharpness and clearness of vision. In
| this day of biography, shorthand, type
writing, and other specialisms, how i'm
/ DULl eillI " nave EOOtA. duN CItdE GytSlS III
as TO alcohol, the effect is deieteriOus in
acting upon that part of the eye called
| the crystalline lens. The whisky drinker,
! especially, is subject to affections of the
retina and optic nerve Is there any
wonder in seeing so many young men ana
| boys with weak eyes, either inherited
! through parents or their own excuses? Is
! there any wonder that lunatic asylums
! are being filled a a fearful rate2
TEETH AND THE ENAMEL.
Little do parents seem to think that
smoking is doing great injury to the teeth
! of their children The cigarette habit is
making dentists rich, and filling the
! mouths of our young men with false teeth.
! The hot food we eat is doing great dam
! age, but when smoking is added, the re-
suit is sure. The philosophy is plain In
| youth the enamel, like the bones, is
| soft. Like all growth it is all important
to aid instead Of injuring. The hot smoke
! by degrees disintegrates, weakens, and de-
! stroys the natural integrity of the
! enamel. And the result will be seen
when the boy who smokes is % or 30, his
teeth, front teeth, will be in a state of de-
cay. Natures laws cannot be violated
daily without retaliating upon the Of
fender of her laws Man is not a free
agent to abuse himself and to abuse pre-
natally those who will be born to him.
ABNORMAL CHILDREN.
: Those are abnormal who come into the
world whose parents have ruined their
nervous systems by all kinds of stimu-
lants. Think for a moment, men and
women whose systems, filled with
alcohol, nicotine, laudanum, opium and
| other toxic stimulantS, are cursing their
| children in their begetting. 1t is best to
be plain in such matters, and the palmer
the better.
The drinker, no matter of what toxi-
cant, not only Injuries and enfeebles his
own nervous system, but entails mental
disease upon his family. His daughters
are nervous and hysterical; his sons are
weak, Maynard, eccentric and sink in
sane under the pressure of excitement or
have no control over themselves. The
brain is easily congested, and we have
apopleXy, heart disease, etc. Parents,
think a moment. r. M. o.
A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS.