The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-23
EFFECT OF GUM CHEWING
The Rev. DR.. Gates Says 1t Is
the Cause Which Leads
to Drunkenness.

The Rev. M. L. Gates of Grace M Il.
Church preached a sermon last night upon
the wonderful exhibits at the Worlds
FAIR He claimed that the Bible was the
secret by which all the marvellous exhibits
were really taken from. "Without the
| Bible,' he said, mo man could ever have
planned and manufactured such magnificent
! things.r Previous to his sermon he read a
/. prelude upon "Chewing Gum, from a Med
zeal Point of View and showed that it was
the children's bitterest enemy. Among
other things. he said:-
The salivary glands can do just a certain
amount of work. They secrete just SO much
saliva, and when the jaws are being. worked,
no matter how, they excrete that saliva. In
eating. the saliva mingles with the food and
helps to digest it. If you give the glands an
extra amount of work by chewing gum be-
tween meals, they become practically debiil-
| tated, and when you eat your meals, there
| win not be the necessary amount OF saliva
to digest the food. The consequence is, indI-
| gestion follows: blood is not made fast
| enough, and the system becomes run down,
| and the child is suffering from general de-
| bility. say child, because it effects chill
dren more than it does grown people. When
| a child is growing, it needs to make blood
faster than a grown person, conse-
quently this habit is more lnJur1-
Gus to children than to older people.
| Between the two evils of adulterated candy
and gum chewing the child OF
the Nineteenth century has a terrible
time to pull through. If you make
a close examination of a young persons
| Jaw, (say one, who is about 16 or II years
| old that lis an habitual gum chewer, you
| will discover that it is more or less deformed.
It is the same as the muscles of the body;
the more you use them the larger they be-
come. Why I have noticed in children from
five to ten years of age, that. are constantly
| chewing gum, that their jaws are abnormally
| developed; they are crooked and more or
| less out CT shape; all on account of rolling
| the gum from one side of the mouth to the
other.
MoTHERS O INDULGENT.
"Mothers are entirely too indulgent with
their children. They give them pennies to
buy stuff with that does them a great deal
more harm than good. The child becomes
pettish and annoys her, and to stop its fret
| ting and annoyance she gives it a penny and
| sends it out to get rid of it for a while. The
first thing that attracts the childs attention,
when it goes to spend its penny, is the slot
machine. Curiosity tempts the child to try
it, and way goes the penny n out comes
the chewing gum, providing the machine
works, which | must state it does not always
do, and thus swindles, actually robs, yes
| steals from the child. These things should
be suppressed. Why, the other day
1 saw a great big, strapping man
reflling one of those machines, and breth-
rem, do you know my bosom swelled with
righteous indignation and it was a struggle
for me to keep my hands off of him. /
actually felt like kicking him down to
.Hades.' Just to think of it, a strong, pow
erful, healthy man doing a thing Liz that,
when he ought to have been breaking stone,
or doing something else worthy of a better
.o,.11 f4r nc uor,nfrrr SOW onoir that
those things are one OF the bltterest
enemies the child has. The candy and
gum that one gets from them is of
the cheapest material. 1t poisons the
whole system, undermines the health and the
! consequence is we have pale faced, bloodless
children, and wonder what is making them
so. Press and pulpit have denounced me for
talking upon such subjects and say that I
know of nothing else to talk about. They
also say why don't you talk upon the
greater evils, the saloons, etcY Well, | say,
what is the use of wasting all ones energy,
strength and talent towards wiping out the
| saloons, which is really the effects of the
greater evil, 'sugared plums' when we can
Just as well get at the bottom of it and
suppress the growth of the root.
THE FIRST STEPS,
seThe child first gets doctored candy and
chewing gum, then wants tobacco, and
lastly liquor, which alone can satisfy its de-
sire for something SlrOng, a11er Gne oJneT
articles refuse to do their work. Go to the
cause of these greater evils, drunkenness,
gambling,' &c. stop the cause and in the
future you will lave no use to enter a cru
SADIE against the saloon; for the future gener-
alton will not care, will not nave any desire
to frequent them, and without patronage the
saloon cannot exist. Once more / say 1t is
useless to go to the effect of the larger evils
when you can do away with them by stop
ping the cause which payes the way to
them, namely, adulterated candy, chewing
| gum and cigarettes"