La Junta tribune., 1914-02-14
-A.y is to get ,hsoash work and then


go somewhere where there are fel-
lows OF your kind and have few.
Now when you do not drink you find
there are other things that occur to
you as worth while 1t Is not NEG
essary to hurry to the club or else
where to meet the crowd and listen
to the newest story, or hear the COM
ment on the days doings. puctuated
by the regular tapping of the bell
for the waiter and the pleasing.
"Whatll it be. boys?" You do that
now and then, but you do not do II
every day.
After mature consideration OF the
subject have concluded that the
greatest, the most satisfactory. the
finest attribute OF non-a alcoholic
life is the time It gives you to do
non alcoholic things. Time! That
is the largest benefit-time to read,
to think. to get out OF doors, to see
pictures, to 80 to plays. to meet and
mingle with new people. to do your
own work in. A man who has the
convivial drinking habit is put to II
on occasions to find time for any
thing but conviyiality aside from his
regular occupation. II seems impera-
tive to him that he shall see where
the crowd is, and stay there. He
might miss something drink.
maybe, or two, or a laugh. or yarn.
or the pleasures OF associating with
folks he likes. These are important
when visualized alcoholically. They
make up the most OF that kind OF a
life.
a non-drinking man is the master
of his own time. II he wants So
ciability he can go and get II, up to
such limits as he personally can at
tain for himself in his water-consum-
ing capacity. a drinking man j. not
master OF his time. He may think
he Is, but he is not. He IL the crea-
ture of habit that may be harm
less. but which surely is insistent:
and the habit dictates what he shall
do with his leisure.
Time Why. such new yistas OF
what can be done with time that was
wasted In former years have opened
before me that time seems to me the
greatest luxury In the world-,ime
that was formerly wasted and not
used hope that does not sound
priggish. ! have tried to show that
| value highly the privilege OF asso-
with my fellows and that
like their ways and their talk and
their company. What ! mean by
this paean to time is that | can hav.
in a modified measure. II |
choose. and that I can and do have
other things that no man who has u
daily drinking habit can or does have
Now. then. We come to the real
question. which Is: With our soci-
ETY. organized As II is, with men such
men as they are. with conditions that
surround life as II Is organized. with
worth while to drink moderately. or
Is IL not' The answer. based solely
on my own experience. Is that II T.
not Looking at the matter from all
angles ! am convinced that tn. best
thing ever did for myself was 10
quit drinking. ! will go further
than that and say IL l. my unaltrr-
able conviction that alcohol. In amy
form. n n beverage never did any
thing for any man that he would not
have been better without.
can now sit back and contrast
the old game with IN. new. The
fall under two general
and mental Tn.
ply steal gain is 80 obvious that even
thos. who have not experienced 4,
admi, II. and those who have eNper-
fenced II comment on 1, as som. mir.
acle OF health tina, has been attained,
ANY mani do not ear. who h" Is
Who Was the sort Of drinksr ! wat.
who will stop drinking long enough
To get cooled out Will feel no much
better IN every way that he will b.
hard put to II to give u reason for
ever beginning again.
As look at II there II no argu.
ment. The man Who does not drink
has all the better OF the game
From THE Old Game by Samuel
Blythe. In the Saturday Evening
Post.
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