Temperance Items

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 187, 10 August 1901, Page 1

Temperance Items

(Published by arrangement.) FACTS ABOUT ALCOHOL. Alcohol is called a stimulant. Aft English physician defines the wor& "stin.ubnt" as "something that getfe strength out of a man instead of putting it into him." A whip is a stimulant to a horse; it makes him go faster, but it does not tnak* him any stronger. Alcohol aci'fe precisely the same on the human body, but docs not make it any stronger. Baron Liebig, the great German chemist, says that "as much flour as c-in lie on the point, of a table knife contains as much nutritive as eight pints of the best and most rriituHous beer." Alcohol sends 100,000 children to house* yearly. as much nourishment in J k pnund loaf of bread as there lfe in one hundred and forty-six gallons of beer. The effect of alcohol i 3 to paralyse the nerves of the blood vessels, and ifs frequent use occasions the almost constant paralysis and engorgement of the blood vessels of the face and nose, morb particularly' the latter. It grows very fast, and assumes a peculiar red colour, whcih is aptly termed " rum blossom."—" Extracts from advice of Ten Doctors." A TRUE AND SIGNIFICANT REPORT OF A CONVERSATION IN A REGISTRY OFFICE. Enter publican, who has just discharged three of his servants through drunken brawls. Publican—Have you got a cook for 'ink yet - ' •• ■V. Clerk—Yes, sir. (Calls in applicant.^ Publican—Can you cook ? Applicant -Yes, sir ? Publican—Do you drink ! Applicant (evasively)—l haver get drunk, sir. Publican—Hung you and your getting drunk. Do you drink at all ? Applicant—Only a little. Publican—Then you can go ; you &irk no d d good to me. This registry office is not 100 miles'fronS. Wellington.