The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-06-13
THE NTERMoUNrAIN AND COLORADO CATHOLICS JUNE

somewhere recently of a way cele-
brated physician goes about checking
spree, and | am sure the righteous
who read this department will forgive
me if | devote a little space to mat
ter they may never need to know OF
and tell those victims of appetite
something of his experience.
What cannot be too sharply impressed
upon the minds of the increasingly
large class of men who have the habit
of going on sprees, is the fact that a
periodical drinker or a dipsomaniac,
rarely has a desire for the disastrous
first drink when he has food in his
stomach. 1t is the hungry man who
yields to the longing for that bad first
drink. The physician advises that the
man rush to the nearest eating house,
when he feels the Overwhelming crav-
ing for drink attacking him, and eat
any sort of food that is most quickly
prepared. A bowl of milk and crack
ers will serve as well as anything. 1t
is not only the partaking of the food,
but it is the time for deliberation
which the action gives him, the time
to think over the trouble he will in
evitably fall into in case he yields to
his inclination When the dipso-
maniac walks out of the place with his
stomach in normal condition, the alb
normal desire for strong drink has
disappeared, for only an habitual
drinker can take strong liquor on a
full stomach 1t is the tired, the
! l., IL 60 lie,
Even a glass of ice water will check
the craving if food cannot be procured.
A man who eats oranges daily, and
several times a day, will be cured of
| the drink habit.
The aftermath ought to be a suffici-
ent warning against next time.
There is no need to tell of it. Those
who know nothing of drink or drink
ers cannot understand, and those who
do know need no telling The in.
tolerable loathing for food which fol-
lows an attack can be met and re-
lieved by a sensible woman, and the
best in the land sometimes find them
selves where they need little knowl
edge. Tact, gentleness and a little
food, suitable food which the stomach
can retain, are priceless to the suf-
ferer. Almost always a luncheon of
this kind will be accepted. Pick salt
Goldfish into fakes, freshen it little
by scalding, cook a few minutes
Drain and pour over it three table.
spoonfuls Of boiling water, add a lit
tie butter and pepper and serve with
hot dry toast, if possible. A cup of
black tea with a slice of lemon in it
sets better at such times than any
other drink I said toast if possible,
but Bent's hard biscuits will answer
if toast cannot be had, for a chatting
dish and the privacy of a bedroom will
be all that is needed in preparing such
a restoring meal. Some chatting dish
outfits have coasters, but even then
the odor of burning bread may undo
the good effects of the dainty nourish-
ment
A very wise physician once told me
that he gave as restorer after a pa
tient had stopped drinking, aromatic
spirits of ammonia, teaspoonful in a
glass of cold water, to be slipped slow
ly. There is a preparation of calisaya
which is a splendid tonic and which is
of great use in such cases. 1t is, of
course, to be taken in spoonful doses
had an experience few months ago
with woman who had disgraced her
self with drink, and after all else had
failed, | took my bottle of calisaya to
her room and gave her dose In a
couple of hours, l went in again to see
how the tonic worked, and behold she
had emptied the bottle. It didn't kill
her and it stopped the spree for that
time.
Sometimes it is a woman who either
fights the demon of drink or yields to
its deadly embrace OF all women, she
is most to be pitied. OF all men who
hive sorrow her stricken husband
best knows its depths In all the years
of my confidential relations with my
readers, only two husbands have writ
ten me of their wives drunkenness.
But there are others who hide the
shame that has come to their homes
A woman knows better than to
drink. She is stronger than a man.
stronger to resist temptation. 1t is a
disgraceful thing when she gives way
to appetite or makes an excuse of
fatigue or weakness and drinks to ex-
cess. A woman has possibilities of
passing on her accursed appetite, she
may be an expectant mother now or
at some future time. and the longing
she yields to may be uncomfortable
in her child. 1t is a pity when a man
drinks to drunkenness; it is a crime
when a woman does it.-Catholic I'm.
ion and Times.