The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-11-09
"The Pace That Kills."

The terrible effects of the drink habit
when practiced amid the glamour OF city
life is shown in striking article on New
York's greatest maelstroln Of vice, the
"Tenderloin," printed in the Herald.
"The pace that kills" leads through the
Tenderloin, says the Herald. Here the
average life OF the gay woman is seven
years. In these new days this haunt Of
crime has spread like the extending jaws
OF some dread monster.
The medical side Of the Tenderloin is a
warning that also fills one with terror.
The finger OF science points but 20 sins
black, inevitable end. Even to the hard
ened man this leap over hell's Niagara is
appalling, Listen to the words of wisdom
and sincerity. When asked by a Herald re-
porter to talk on the pace that kills, DIR.
George F. Shrady said
Generally speaking, the pace that kills
Is always associated with dissipation in
one form or other. The usual start is
made in the desire for diversion or re-
creation, and the common ending Is In an
Insanity of excess. 1t is the very opposite
OF healthful rest. which one needs for his
daily labor.
Mature always believes In moderation.
The really healthful man takes life
judiciously, evenly, understandingly, and
never over-excites himself. Stealing from
the night to lengthen the day is fatal to all
nerve force.
with a man the period Is longer than
with woman, because OF his greater re-
sisting physical powers and his diversions
In other and possibly more absorbing direc-
tions. Sooner or later, however, he, too,
Is sureto become physical wreck.
''If seated disease does not overtake him
or her, the drinking habit almost invariably
RSa0piafnd with form Of AiaCipatfOn
Is sure to bring up the end.
"You sup with the devil and you will have
The one fiery and damning sauce. With
out 1t his Satanic Majesty would only offer
an empty spoon. The horse race could not
90 on, the cards could not be shuffied, the
midnight dance would lose its charm, the
coarse rout would have no stimulus, and
the late supper would be without its ever
present and insidlous charm.
81 venture to say that there is more
liquor drunk to the square rod Of space in
the Tenderloin district than any other cor
responding density OF population In any
other part of the city. The physical
wrecks, afoat with their burned and black
sned spars, drift back to every home In the
land.
Men and women with ruined stomachs
damaged kidneys, crippled hearts, para
lyzed limbs and rotten bones mark the
track OF natures relentless fury of balenc-
Ing retribution. These patients fill our
hospitals and asylums, and furnish exam.
Piles Of almost every form of disease to
which degenerated humanity is subject.
Each life has only so much coal to
ourn. The longer we keep on the blower
the sooner we get the ashes. Disease and
death are always the penalties Of every ex-
cess. In the category OF causative inlu-
ences Of diseases, dissipation In its varied
and comprehensive sense always takes a
leading place.
"This Is the pace which not only kills
those that are but those that are to be. 1t
Is talnting the race along the line of de-
scent with idiocy, hereditary crime, insan-
lty and other forms OF physical degener-
acy. All this show that we must live
moderately and decentlY and follow ma
ture's unmistakable and reasonable man.
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