The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-31
THE DRUNKARD'S new
YEARS RESOLUTION
WON'T STICK
It's a Physical Impossibility to
"Quit" a Disease = He
Should Not Be Centured Be-
cause Of His Failure to Do
So.

The drunkard's New Year prospects,
Friends dwinding.
People stop speaking.
Fewer invitations to drink.
Occupation uncertain.
Daughter working for liNing.
Son on the street.
Children improperly clad
wife sick from worry.
House rent due,
Grocery bills unpaid.
Creditors impatient.
Swears of.
Gets drunk again.
Loses position.
Crazed by drink,
Murders family.
Commits suicide,
How the drunxard can alter his New
Years prospects;
Take the James Treatment.
Join the church as n result,
You will spend your evenings at home.
Your position will be secure,
Your children can stop work and go to
school,
They will not he ashamed OF their
clothes or their father,
You will take PRIDE in meeting your OBJ
legations promptly.
Creditors will seek your patronage.
You viii have good health and enjoy a
long life Of happiness and prosperity.
Are YOU swearing off3 Are you taking
the pledRe7 Are you trying to start the
new year of right7 Have You drank In
moderation" until you indulge In an oe-
casional spree, brace up with drink next
morning and 20 TO work and feel shaky
next day for the want of another drink?
II so, you are suffering from the reaction
o, the stimulation of your debaueh You
have diseased nerves Your stomach, your
liver, your heart and your kidneys are
becoming dcranged. In short time you
will feel "all out of sorts" again, get the
blues, take a drink and get drunk again,
When you get sober you will be torn up
worse than before, nauseated, nervous
and sick; can't sleep, can't eat, disheart-
ened, melancholy Your memory Is getting
bad. You arc losing your old-time pride
and self-respect. The sprees are getting
closer together until Il becomes almost
one continuous spree Your ambition and
your interest In your work are on the
wane; you need whisky; YOU ARE suffering
for IL. but you are resisting II with all
the power OF body and mind that you
car command, but alcohol has weakened
the mind, shattered the nerves, crippled
the will power. Alcohol with you Is a
physical necessity. you take one more
drink as n tonlc II fires tho brain and
you take more and more get drunk, get
sick. get sober. night Off the desire for "A
while and get drunk again,
Now you are deoclvlng yourself by
making New Year resolutions that you
will be physically unable to keep. You are
diseased. VIII power nor Now Years res
eiutions will not keep your system from
crying out for alcoholic stimulants. or
keep you from falling, when nature can
no longer stand without alcoholic stlmu-
lation.
The James Treatment repairs the dam
age done the human system by the excess
sive use Of alcoholic drug or tobacco
poisons Every yestge OF these polsons Is
eliminated from the system. II builds up
and restores the nervous system TO n
normal condition II give tho heart a
full normal action. The liver and kidneys
are cleansed and the innammed condition
produced by alcohol IL entirely over
come. Normal functional activity Is re-
sumed. A general state OF will being Is
established. The patient feels strong and
we'll AND rs STRONG AND WE'LL, and
never again feels the symptoms that once
haunted him until he resorted to drink
for relief,
We publish q slxty-two page book which
we will take pleasure In sending you UNI
deI plain cover, which fully describes the
disease OF alcoholism and how the James
Sana forum. the largest and most success
full institution OF the kind In the world,
ovcreomos the dlsense OF alcoholism
You Can BE Cured at Home.
II you cannot visit tho James Sana-
torium you can he cured M home by a
course Of our specially prepared home
treatment for drunkenness. We also
specially prepare home treatment for the
cure of Drug and Tobacco Additions, Ad-
dress IN confidence. Tho James Sana-
torlum. Memphis Tenn, or The James
Sana torium, st, Louis. Mo,