Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-02-25
G. T. u. COLUMN.
He BEER DRINKING MANIA.
!: cod and Home and Native Land.'

IL Insurance journal OF Berlin, me
Esche Versicherungs- ZeitaIng, in its
ce of DR.. Brenders lecture before
Anthropological Society of Mu-
is letting the German people
W what some of their leading sci
fic men think of the habit of
drinking-a habit which Ger
immigration has gone far to
der national in the United States.
Err reference to the prevalence of
called 1.-THE alcoholic period of
- DIR. Brendel spoke as follows:
cohol, which apparently brings so
eh pleasure to its partaker, acts as
bon. if even consumed in small
es daily, by means of its cumula-
action, as strikingly shown here
Munich, the center of beer con
hption, by the frequent sudden
es of death of apparently healthy
h. Fatty enfeebled hearts, shriv-
Il d kidneys, fatty or hardened liv-
changes in the texture of blood
|sels, which causes paralytic strokes
softenings of the brain by burst
in the brain, chronic catarrhs Of
stomach and bronchial tubes, ETC.,
q milling of the limbs, alterations
diseases of the mental faculties,
irium tremens, etc.,-these are
ne OF the consequences of an inn
Bderate drinking of alcoholic slim
+ nts.
prof. DR.. Bollinger of this city Mu-
|h) has in the same manner proved
prevalence of various diseases of
definite nature of the internal or
ms caused by the universal drink
I of beer. a normal heart or kid
v is the exception only here in Mu-
bh. This state Of affairs also Injuries
E progeny in a most serious man
r. DIR. Demme found that Of the
ildren of nom drinkers 80 per cent. /
re sound while of those of drink
} only II per cent. were sound.
although large quantities of bev-
ages were drunk formerly, still |!
ly in the last century, and more
Decially only in the decades in
lich the brewers art was perfected,
mixing has become universal. 1t |
s spread everywhere, and increased |
a frightful, most alarming extent.
has been introduced even into
untry communities; and the only
evitable consequence will be the
orough degeneration of the human
&c, if the evil is not checked before
is too late.
Although it is commended that beer
ntains less alcohol than either wine /
whiskey, it it, nevertheless, Is in
ious as either of them; while its
united nutritive value stands in no
0portion to it's price. When a man
to perform the greatest |
It's OF corporeal exertions in battle, !
1rt, explorations, ETC., the baneful
ect OF alcohol is most strikinglY /
own. In spite of the marvel
Is advantages Of our present age, a
lat retrogression in an ethical sense
undeniable, the chief cause Of
because the beer saloon
5 become the centre and focus of
,ial life.
t is a very noticeable fact that, as
ule, the habit of smoking blunts
} moral sense to the extent of in
cling in the smoker disregard of
feelings. tastes, and rights of 9TH
], and even of fine decency. Some
~ curious cases in point could be
ed. Here is the latest. Scene: A
e distance express train at st.
ncras. In smoking compartment,
a delicate looking woman and
zee yong children, aged about five,
zen, and nine. care you oil going
smok e?" gaily asked a bystander.
b, mol" replied the woman, ''-only
husband" That important per
soon after went IN, and, for his
n bit of self qualification, subject
the woman and her young children
the foul chances of smoking com
rtment, perhaps for half day.
at is precisely the cloudy and quite
conscious callousness which the
ady habit of smoking does fire.
emily produce.
t appears, from the recent report