The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-17

tEey want. therefore the more they drink
and in extreme cases there are other re-
suits Of alcohol drinking. IN the form of
immortality and crime 10 say nothing OF
dependency and res1lessness- All these
are TOO commonplace 10 need mention
here.
The worst faNacy in regard to alcohol
IS the fallacy OF the right way Of giving
il UP. II IS all very well to say 10 people.
Avoid temptations 10 drink; do not 90
where you viii have to drink and it IS
ali very well TO say. Use your Will-pow-
er; refuse 70 drink but it IS far better
10 show people also the conditions which
make them desire alcohol, so that they
may with perfect freedom Of choice take
It or refuse It,
Assuming. however. that alcohol really
does harm 70 you individually. then md
OUT what IL Is that makes you desire il:
you get then 10 the root OF the matter.
You have 20 put yourself in sucn a state
that. when alcohol is offered you. you
would rather not take il. The first help
Il 20 take enough nourishrae nt, not in the
form Of fattening ana heating material OF
OF sheer bulk, but in the form OF blood
making and tissus-making substances,
namely. sibumen.
l get my own albumen entirely from
RESTLESS foods Il is possible that others
may ind that these hesnless foods are val
liable for them, as they may have been
Tor me. In my own case, when I first
gave up alcohol. l continued the use Of
meat. etc. ard found that even al the
END Of six months I still desired alcohol
Then gave Up the flesh foods about four
years ago, and almost Immediately the de-
sire for alcohol went. On the heshless
foods ! believe that. as rule, the desire
will disappear. There seems to be some
thing in the flesh which produces the
thirst fer intoxicants; though / found
that in case did not take enough proteid
or slbumen and did too much work or ex-
ercise, felt exhausted ard the desire re-
turned. / could at any time. therefore,
reproduce the desire by returning TO the
flesh foods, or by not taking enough pro-
ted daily. For IL seems 10 me to come
down to that-enough proteid-say four
ounces day, in a fieshless form. That is
the verdict for one single case. Personal
experience in each case must be the guide
personal experience extending over at
last some weeks
Before l finish / must say a word about
immediate results; they are not 10 be mis-
taken for fun results; they are not to be
the criterion. When a man takes alcohol
the immediate results are probably salts
factory; but he must not imagine that the
final effect Of alcohol is satisfactory be-
cause Of this. He must be cautious before
he decides. On the other hand he may
give up alcohol and find that the immedi-
ate effect is depression; he must not con-
clude from this that II he continues the
treatment depression will continue also.
II is quite possible that, when he has
given up alcohol, the poisons in his body
are circulating in his hood on the way to
passing out through various outlets No
wonder then that he Is depressed. When
most Of these poisons have passed out,
and when he has ceased 10 add extra
poisons. the depression may be removed.
1t is a fanacy to judge by immediate ef-
fects
My own recent experiment with alcohol
took some months to produce the appreci-
able effect upon my brain work and train
ing. except that 1t made the desire for
regular exercise amount almost to a crav-
ing