The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-05
NUMBER 1877

are born live their lives in a great
city and die while tine city still lives
The cells in the body are like the
people in the community. The ac-
uvities of a city is but the sum of the
activities of the people who innabit
it. The activities of the body is only
the sum of the activities of the cells
thing which Injuries the inhabitants
Of city Injuries the city. Any
thing which Injuries the individual
cells, Injuries the body. Certain
foods are used by certain people or
classes of people and not by others.
classes or groups of cells. Some
drugs have a selective action affect.
hing certain tissues entirely or more
than others. Soap berk affects your
nase and makes you sneeze, onions
affect the eyes and make the tears
flow, Pilo carpine affects the sweat
glands and makes you prespire.
Chloroform will affect the brain
and make you sleep. Coffee will af-
feet the brain and keep you awake.
Another drug will leave you wide
awake and conscious but prevent
group of cells does one thing and re-
Deats that thing continually. 1t oc-
quires a habit and sticks to it. The
sum of the habits acquired by it's
cells becomes the habit of the body.
An action often repeated becomes so
easy of accomplishment that it is
done automatically OR without think
ing and then constitutes habit
Habits may be good or bad depend
ing on their effects. Good or bad
habits are equally difficulut to break.
If it were not for habits our brains
just living that we would have little
then be little more than vegetating
animals. The child in learning to
brains for anything else. We would
walk must use its brain for each
step, after repeating the act it is able
to walk without thinking and thus
have the mind fre for other things.
Then it is of the very greatest i'm
portance that we acquire or cultivate
good habits and just as necessary
to our happiness that we avoid the
development of bad habits and that
we make every effort to break them
up when we discover that we are
acquiring them. Good habits are
subservient to our best interests and
are our servants, but bad habits, if
indulged in for any length of time
become our masters. To regain our
liberty then requires struggle.
Some habits are like an enemy who
binds us with cords and If our
strength is unimpaired when we de-
termine to break loose we may do
so with one great effort and at once.
The taking of food is a necessity of our
lives, we take the same amount day
after day and year after year during
our whole lives and though it may
become a habit to eat certain things
rather than others which would serve
the purpose equally as well, yet the
fact of taking food cannot be called
which in small quantities may be
taken into. the body under certain
circumstances with great benefit but
which are not needed and not useful
at all times and these we call drugs.
The body seems to tolerate them for
time in limited quantities, but in
larger amounts OF of long continu-
ance, becomes poisons. The major
ity of these can be discontinued with
out producing any noticeable effects,
we do not miss them. There are
others, however, which quickly ac-
quire such hold on us that the hui
man machine to be thrown out of
gear and the normal functions are
all disa-ranged and we are in great
distress. These are called habit-form-
ing drugs and they are like an enemy
who not only binds US with cords but
rapidly deteriorates our strength SO
that we become doubly helpless. Two
of these drugs have arisen to over
whelming Importance in modern civ.
ilization by reason of their pernicious
effects and the number of their vic.
Tins Alcohol easily takes first place
by reason of its dreadful effects on
Its victims and the enormous amount
of misery which follows in it's path
and the appalling number of deaths
directly and indirectly caused by 1t.
In addition to the results mentioned.
more than nine tenths of the crimes
OF violence can be laid to its charge.
In the number of it's victims tobacco