The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
WHS IT EVER
SUGGESTED TOY0U
Blu Your Wife, Mother, Father or
Real Friends
THAT YOU WERE RUNNING LIFE
Wasting Your Earnings, Bringing Dis
grace and Humiliation on Yourself
ssd Family Through Dissl-
patton and Your
Associations?
THAT YOU WERE RUNNING LIFE

treatment before you had lost your stand
ing in both the social and business world?
Did you on such occasion tell them that
you did not need treatment, that 1t was
a disgrace to go to a sanatorium for re.
lief from drunkenness and dissipation,
and by your actions tell them that it was
more respectable to continue to go on
sprees and continue to indulge In strong
drink associate with those who had no
interest whatever in your future pros
perity or happiness, regardless of the
woebegone look of your wife, your aged
mother or father, or those who were near
and dear to you, and who had pleaded
with you so earnestly to cast aside those
who were leading you on to destruction,
and by your actions proving to your wife,
little children, parents and real friends
that you cared little for their humiliation,
degradation or despair, and that you
were so apparently selfish that you would
prefer spending your time and your earn
ings with those who, like yourself, were
dissipated?
Did you ever leave home with the best
intention on earth of not drinking again,
and with the intention of visiting another
town city, and have your wife, father
or mother plead with you not to go, re-
questing you to transact your business IN
some other way, and regardless of their
pleadings leave home promising them
that you would return at stated time,
and then fail to keep your promise SIM
ply because you met acquaintances, took
a social drink and result got on
spree and did nok return home at the APP,
pointed time, wasting your money ana
your health in dissipation, and causing
your wife, father or mother nights and
days of unmerited misery, and thereby
bringing humiliation on your wife and
little children, father or mother as the
case may be- as well as disgrace and re-
morse on yourself?
Did you ever leave home after having
been on spree regardless of the plead
ings of your wife and children, or the
pleadings of your mother not to leave
home for a day or so or until you were
stronger, and Notwithstanding their
efforts to keep you at home leave them
promising that you would not take an
other drink as long as you lived, know
ing full well that you could not keep the
promise. and as a result just as soon as
you were out of sight of home have
every nerve in your body set up cry for
just one drink to quiet that terrible crav-
ing and depression which is known only
to those who have INDUCED in periodical
spreeS, or who have become habituated
to the use of alcoholic stimulants, and
finally, regardless of your solemn promise
and the fact that you had Inundated
yourself and family only the day before,
persuade yourself that you were strong
had fallen often, and Just take one
more drink, for stimulation sake, be-
fore going to your place of business, and
as a result fall again, and perhaps not
return TO your home, or to your business,
for several days, and after your return
feel more Inundated than ever before
begging your wife, father or mother, as
the case may be, to forgive you just
once more and vow to them by all that
was good and holy that you would never
touch fntoxicants again. and as a result
remain true to your promises only for a
short while, and then fall deeper into dis
spaton than ever before?
Did you ever feel so Inundated and
demoralized, after-a spree of even night
or day. that you feel you did not de-
serve the respect of your family or
friends that you could hardly summons
courage enough to enter your office or
that you were ashamed to go to your
place of business. and If you did go, you
went there by some unfrequented route,
instead of entering the front door like
man should?
Did YOU ever feel as you went down
the street that every man, woman and
child you met knew that you had been
on a spree?
Did you ever have your wife, mother
or father plead with you to quit your
old associates, discontinue your disspa-
ton and live a proper life, and feel that
they were trying to keep you from
meeting with success In life and trying
to prevent your prosperity, and fail to
realize that a matter of fact they
were advising you for the best and were
consequently your only true friend?
If the above has been your experience
or any part of it has been your expert
ence, we hope that you will realize that
alcoholism in your case has become a
disease. and as a disease 1t is durable,
and that in curing alcoholism we do not
discontinue giving a patient whiskey as
soon as he comes to us, but continue to
let them have sufficient amount to keep
him comfortable until our remedies have
50 toned up his stomach that 1t Is pos
sble for him to eat and sleep without
alcoholic stimulants of any kind.
A husband may give a wife every
thing on earth in the way of money,
home, ETC., but If he continues to drink
and dissipate he robs her of every possi-
bic pleasure and all else with which he
provides her will appear as of little, con-
sequence and consequently his home will
be most miserable and his wife and chill
dren are, of course. detected and heart
broken.
JAMES HOME REMEDIES.
Whiskey wine or beer habits. $3.50. so
Tobacco or snuff habits. ............... 500
Cigarette and cigar habits. ............ 500
Hypodermic and internal remedies for
drug habits of all kinds specially pre-
pared to meet requirements in each in
dividual case Free samples furnished
drug users Send for literature and testi-
monials Address, in confidence, Chas.
B. James. or James Sanatorium, Mem
phis. Tenn; Chas. c. James, or James
Sanatorium 221 Missouri Trust building,
st. Louis. Mo.