Smyrna times., 1901-06-05
TEMPERANCE NOTES FROM
PRESS SUPERINTENDENT
OPINIONS CONCERNING THE EFFECT OF
AL CHOHOL ON THE PHYSIQUE.
Interesting Facts Carefully Cleaned By Miss
Annie w. Sutton, Press Superintendent
of the W. c. 7. U. of Delaware.


of the W. c. T. U. of Delaware.
The Union Signal under the head
ing of ''The Voice of Science" gives
the following opinions concerning the
use of alchohol: CDR. Clornton, of
Edinburg Asylum, Scotland, writss:
1 am safe in saying that no man in
dulges for ten years continuously,
even though he was never drunk in
all that time, without being psychol-
ogically changed for the worse.
And if the habit goes on after forty
years, the change is apt to be faster
aud more decided. We see 1t in our
friends and we know what the end will
be, but we cannot lay hold of anything
in particular. Their fortune and
works suffer, and yet we dare not say
that they are drunkards for they are
not. 1t all depends upon the original
inherent strength of the brain how
long the course takes. Usually some
intercurrent disease or tissue degene-
ration cuts off the man before he has a
chance of getting old. I have seen
such a man simply pass into senile de-
mentia, before he was an old man, from
mild respectable alchoholic excess,
without any alcoholism or prelimi-
nary outburst at all.
And 1 am sure 1 have seen strong
brains in our profession at the bar, and
in business break down from chronic
alchoholic excess, without their own
ers ever having been once drunk"
If the United States of America
would rule the world, if she should
whiten the distant seas with the sails
of her commerce, if she would extend
her intellectual realm, until her voice
is law in the capitals of the distant
Orient, then let her for two genera
tions abandon alchohol and she can re-
alize her ambition. Let us as medical
men and women look deeply into the
scientific aspect of the question. 1t
not only concerns the recovery of our
patients but the eyes of the world are
upon us.
The nations of the earth await our
dictum. We, the medical profession,
gave alchohol to the world d-our hands
are still holding the cup to the lips of
humanity. Now let us restrain it,
Charles G. Davis. NJ. D.
''Stimulants never increase the nat
ural capacity of the brain. They only
abstract for the purpose of work in
hand, some of the energies which are
sorely needed to repair and restore a
brain which has already been taxed to
the furthest limit which is consistent
with health. To remove the sense of
fatigue caused by overwork by the
consumption of alchohol, is to close
ones ears to the voice of Nature.
The WEAKNESS of the brain is a pro-
test against furtherexertion until recup-
Grafton has been obtained by rest, and
if the weary feeling is deadened or
destroyed by adventitious means, ma
ture will exact her penalty. DIR. Her
chell, London, IN Health and 1rou-
bles of City Life"
On May ), one thousand members
of Holy Savior Church at Wilkes barre,
Pa, pledged themselves to total absti-
nance. Rev. Father Curran, pastor of
the church, has labored faithfully in
the temperance cause for three years,
with his pensioners with the above
result.
A recent number of the Union .SiqnaL
contains the Pledge of the Paulist Fa-
theirs as follows: "For the love of God
and for the good of my soul, I promise
to abstain from intoxicating drinks.
The pledge is accompanied by eight
excellent reasons, four of which we
give"
AS reason:-'T feel that by making
this pledge [ can encourage others who
may need it, to do the same"'
BIS reason:-I have noticed thai
those who make and keep such prom.
ises, are better Christians, have better
health. longer life, and pleasanter
homes than habitual drinkers"
Els reason:-'T am afraid of Civ
ing scandal to my children or to 9th
ers; Should anyone by my example be-
come drunkard, what could [ answer
in the day of Judgment"
H's reason When the demon of dis
cord caused n~ euters the house
the angel OF peace departs. / prefer
dwelling with the angel of peac
rather than the demon of discord."
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