TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42753, 27 July 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

By Keformeb.) HOW ALCOHOL KILLS. - Mr Nelson;, the most distinguished of English actuaries, after long and careful investigations and comparisons, ascertained by. actual experiences J the following astounding facts— | Between the ages of fifteen j and twenty, where ten total abstainers die, eighteen moderate | drinkers die. > j Between the ages of twenty ; and thirty, where ten total abstainers die, thirty-one moderate I drinkers die. Between the ages of thirty ! and forty, where ten total abs- jj tainers die, forty moderate $ drinkers die. Or, expressing the fact in i another form, he says:— A total abstainer twenty years £ old has the chance of living ! forty-four years longer, or until i years sixty four old* A moderator drinker has the . f chance of living fifteen and ahalf years longer, or until thirty- 1 five and one-half years old. . | A total abstainer thirty years old has the chance of living I thirty-six and one half years® longer, or until sixty-six and one I half years older. jj j A moderate drinker thirty I years old has the chance of liv- I ing thirteen and one-half years 1 longer, or until forty-three and three-fourths older. I A tolal abstainer forty years I old has the chance of living I twenty eight and one-fourth §1 years louger, or until sixty-eight 1 ; I and one-half years old. ifl A moderate drinker forty I years old has the chance of liV- i|J ing eleven and two-thirds years I longer, or until fifty-one and one 1 half years old. THE TRAGEDY OF THE M CITY. ;||j I see the picture of a mother J sitting at the window, waiting J® for her son to come home to her, 9 Eagerly she scans the faces off* the throngs that hurry past her, but they thin out and still be I does not come. Only now and I then a solitary passer-by goes ■ past, but still she sits and waits ■ there by the window. She ;■ knows the temptations and the . I pitfalls that beset her boy. Perhaps he comes home to to safely; perhaps it is an'-JH oilier of the pitiful tragedies off* city life. But is it not all wrong :* that the city should be more ® dangerous for that boy than the J howling wilderness, and; the ’■ ravenous beasts of the forest?!* that it is not made so safe, that I no mother ueed sit at any uii «!■ dow with straiuing eyes.and ■ sorrowing heart for he tempted B boy ? Oh, the agony and the I shame and the cruelty of it all ? H Who should keep his peace when-Ml all this is going on ?—“New H Voice” (from a speech by Dr I J. Adams. ■