Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-27
HABITS OF YOUTH
They Cling to a Person
Throughout Life.
INTERESTING PAPER READ
At the Last Meeting of the W. {. !. u.
Use of Narcotics and Alco-
hol Was Condemned.
INTERESTING PAPER READ

At the last meeting of the W. G. L. L.
a valuable PAPER was read by MISS
Fannie White. which is printed by special
request. Owing to it's length it is printed
in part as follows:
Habit is second nature" so says the
proyerbialist, and the statement Will not
admit of contradiction. Almost with the
commencement of life begins the forlna-
ton of habits. The babe in the cradle,
if judiciously tended, soon forms habits
of eating and sleeping that If disturbed
cause it great annoyance. AS the chll0
develops physically and mentally. DAY by
day, new habits are formed, many OF
them destined to influence its whole
future for good or evil. Upon the parents.
and especially upon the mother, rest II
great measure the responsibility of the
child's future. To a tremendous extent
she has it within her power to influence
the destiny of her offspring. Q the forces
that are always moulding men, two of
the strongest and most persistent are eX-
ample and co~Inpanionship.' And no.
where else during life will the child ever
have such opportunities for education as
in the home. 1t is here that the mother
may, by teaching and influence. inculcate
those principles that will be for the
child's everlasting Welfare. Aniel says,
I'm the conduct of life habits count for
more than maXims, because life is a living
maxim To reform ones maxim is MOTH
ing. it is but to change the title of the
book. To learn new habits is everything,
for it is to reach the substance of life.
Life is but a tissue of habits
How necessary then that every mother
see to it that her child forms only such
habits as Will tend to develop physical
health and mental strength. Every prac-
tice that tends to debase. degrade. or in
any way lower the mental, moral. or
physical tone of the individual is a bad
habit. While any practice that eleVates
the individual, that makes the mind
purer, the conscience happier, and the
human body healthier, must of necessity
be termed a good habit.
OF all the habits the human race is
slave to, there are none that exceed, or
hardly even approach, in evil influences
and detrimental effects, the habi of using
narcotics. The subject of narcotics has
received but a small amount of atten-
ton, generally speaking, compared to the
enormous amount of harm done the
human family through their use. Appar-
emily the masses think little about it.
They certainly see the sin and crime that
is the direct result of the use of mar
cotics, but if in their souls they place
the blame where it properly belongs they
make no mention of the fact, and the
great world of humanity is none the
wiser or better for it. We, none of us,
escape some knowledge of their direful
effects, but what we see is only a drop
in the vast ocean of suffering caused by
those terrible poisOns.
No one attempted to deny the dreadful
affects of the alcohol habit, and yet how
few realize that to many of the poor,
bloated Wretches, Fastening to a drunk
ards grave, the gate to destruction was
opened by the formation in early life of
the tobacco habit. To begin at the very
hottov, of the Cllhjact what jC q ma rpotiro
We all know that "a narcotic is a drug
that acts upon the nervous system. pro-
ducing sleep or tOrpor." THAT it has a
Supplying and ~paralyzins effect upon the
brain and nerves" If given in small
doses. some narcotics produce the APP
pearance of increased strength and ami
nation. For this reason, some narcotics
are called stimulants, but all narcotics,
if taken in sufficient quantity, cause
death. Oh, but you say only those ad-
dicted to the use of alcohol and tobacco
are injured.
Let us see if this is true. The most in
furious narcotics in common use are alco-
hol, tobacco, opium, tea and coffee. AL
though usually considered quite harm
less. tea and coffee must be classed in the
list of harmful drinks. While the evil
effects arising from the use of these
beverages is small, indeed. compared to
that arising from the use of alcohol and
topdfco, lhey HtNeitileieS9 POSSESS thcli
deteriOrating qualities. Tea was first
used by Europeans in the 10Th century,
and consists of the dried leaves of d shrub
which grows in India and China Such
narcotics as alcohol, opium and tobacco
create an increasing demand for the
poison, SO that to satisfy the craving, a
greater quantity must be INDUCED in.
German physicians have borne testi-
mony to the fact that of the deaths Oc-
curing among men in Germany, between
Is and 50 years of age, one-half die from
the effects of smoking. They declare that
tobacco burns out the blood, the teeth,
the eyes, and the brain. Agriculturalists
tell US that 40 other plant in the vege-
table kingdom so impoVerishes the soil in
which it grows as tobacco. A member
of a large tobacco firm in st. Louis is
quoted as saying that tobacco kills more
men han alcohol. 1t has been called the