Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-11-09
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Home Health
Club
~ DAVID q. RLEpER. Ph. D.. ND
La Porte, Ind.
DIET AND DRUNKARDs.
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have not said a great deal upon
the subject of alcoholic liquors in the
Home Health club lectures, but in
stead have constantly taught tenn
perance in all things. have tried to
go to the root of the evil. For many
of you know that the beloved tenn
peranee worker, Frances =. Willard,
used frequently to say that the
kitchen is often the vestibule OF the
saloon" and think that little reflec-
ton will cause you to agree with her.
The delicate nerves of growing
boys stomach can be so irritated by
highly-splced and greasy. foods,
doughty bread, coffee, tea, ETC., that
fermentation takes place before the
food can possibly digest and it is, as
DR.. Paulson says, not to be wondered
at that he Graves the paralyzing In
fluence of alcohol and the nervedead-
ening effects of the cigarette.
"Dr. Brunton, the eminent English
physician, tells of a drunkard who
complained because the temperance
people were forever telling him about
his drinking, but none Of them told
him how to get rid of the thirst that
compelled him to drink. What would
we think of a farmer who spent his
time trimming the tops of his trouble
some weeds instead of pulling them
up by the roots?"
There is a cause for a drunkard's
thirst, Just as there is a cause for
the fever patients temperature.
Divine Writ declares: The curse
causeless shall not come If our mod
ern dinner tables could be cleared of
those things that create a craving for
liquor there would be more vacant
places at the bar; for the saloon, in
stead OF being the first step in the
drunkard's career, is frequently the
DEVILS hospital, sought out by those
who already have had abnormal tastes
created within them by a fond moth
er's cooking"
1.-THE mother who prepares such
| food for her boy is unconsciously the
best friend Of not only the cigarette
dealer, but also Of the saloon keeper,
for she is developing business for
both of them. How useless for her to
implore providence to deliver her
boy from the curse of the cigarette
evil and the liquor traffic while she
is daily placing before him food that
must physiologically create a demand
| for their effects, Just as the eating of
a large quantity of salt would devel-
op in him a strong and almost irresti-
BILE desire to patronize the water.
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Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap is as unerring in its
operations as is the law of gravita-
ton"
DIR. Paulson says further: "Our ex;
| perience in dealing with multitudes
! of drunkards in our Chicago life boat
work has thoroughly convinced us
that the partaking OF an extensive
variety Of vile and indigestible foods,
saturated with substances that blister,
burn and sting as they are swallowed,
that are added for the purpose Of CIV
| ing the palate twist, also twists the
| nerves, and even the temper and
character, and almost drags the poor,
struggling victim of the drink habit
|
Scientific cookery should be re-
garded as an important part of the
education of our young people. In
deed, some one has said that cookery
should rank highest among the high
arts. Yet the enterprising business
man who demands an accurate
stenographer, a wellinfoTmed lawyer,
and discreet manager, is fully salts
fed that the woman in his kitchen is
a competent cook If she can favor and
put together half dozen food ingred'
tents so that they will satisfy his
taste, even though she may have no
intelligent conception as to whether
they will build up or destroy the brain
and other tissues"
1.-THE idea that alcohol is a food is
thinly-coated scientific sophlstry
which has furnished a desirable ex
cuse for thousands of moderate drink
ers. 1t is true that a small quantity
of alcohol will burn or oxidize in the
body, but 1t ruins the body while it is
burning, just as a quantity of gun
powder could burn in a stove, but II
would blast it to pieces while 1t was
burning"
Prof. Kraeplin, of Heidelberg, Ger
many. one of the worlds greatest au
thorities on experimental psychology
has recently made 1000 experiments
with instruments of precision in which
he has scientifically demonstrated
that as small an amount as one-third
of an ounce Of alcohol will appreci
ably depress sight, hearing, feeling
and the various mental operations
Let the mother study the Home
Health club methods of diet, the prop
er combinations Of food, and how tC
prepare it and the result will not be
favorable to the saloon and tobacco
trade.
CLUB NOTES.
II Mrs. L f., Of Pennsylvania, ant