THE DRINK HABIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4372, 18 March 1893, Page 3

THE DRINK HABIT.

It is needless to moralise on tho direful effects of intoxicating liquors when used to excess, Moralists have written thousands of books, philantbropists have founded asylums and reformatories, physicians have laboured and expostulated, wivoa aud mothers have tearfully pleaded, yet the direful fact remains that the curse is more rampant than ever, What is to be done? Legislation has proved unavailing. So far as it goes, law is right, but appetite cannot be conirolled by the statute book. Wo must treat the drink habit intelligently and undorstandingly, and when we claim that it is a disease, and should be treated as such, we believe wo have come near tho method by which the problem can he solved. Arguments, threats and punishment have proved futile. Let us now try reason and common sense, Drunkenness is 'ho outcome ol nervous disease, either acquired or iuhoiited. The patient, in the great majority of casrs, is willing, nay anxious, to be cured. His will power, however, has become parlysed, and ho must have all theaid obtainable to renew the battle for the recovery of his manhood, anu mainUin it successfully. Such an aid is found ill Warner's Safe Nervine and WamiT's Safe Cure, The former quiets the neives, and secures the needi'd rest and sleep, while tha hitter carries the poisonous and irritating inflammatory matter out of the system, aids digestion, and assists in making imre rich blood, Ttieso medicines, together with diet, bathing and exercise, will accomplish the result uimedat, It is. necessary for the patient to isolate himself from his family or friends by going to a, highpriced so-called cure, thus advertising himself as incurable by other methods and bringiug public atteniiou to his case, and corresponding shame to his friends, To a person of sensitive nature such a course is almost as bad as death itself, We bavebnefly pointedoutacourse which can be pursued quietly, systematically, aud successfully, and which wo leave.to the intelligent reader to avail himself of. Note tho experimentof Mr William Patterson, of Cairns, Queensland, uudor date 7th December, 1892, he writes: -I commonced the use of your Safe Cure some years ago when it was first introduced into the colonies, 1 was a very heavy drinker iu my early days, and with the excessive useof spirits my brain became softened and my reason nearly gone, I became alarmed at the state I was in, anil would gladly have takon anything that I thought would do me any good, I had a wife and family to support and was in a fair way of business, but could not attend lo it as formerly, Beading one day something about Warner's Safe Cure, Idetermioedtogive it a trial, I managed, after some difficulty, to procure a few bottles and commenced its use, keeping strictly to the directions and not taking any strong drink in the meantime, After using a few bottles my brain became clear, and I felt altogether a new man,