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are the eight-hour periods spent? Is the recreation time spent at home in 
the suburbs making garden or in outdoor air; or is the time spent in the 
heart of a dirty city, in a saloon, pool rooms, or loafing on the dusty street 
corners? The five-cent theater habit is only too often accompanied by 
the bad habit of “going out to see a man” and chewing a clove after it. 
In short, the time spent in recreation under bad air may be the real factor 
for inefficiency and premature breakdown and not the work in a clean 
and well-ventilated shop. 
Hight hours of sleep: In what sort of bedroom? With good air, free 
ventilation? Or closely housed and with perhaps no daylight coming into 
the room at any time? 
The slum dweller of course represents the worst conditions in all re- 
spects. Naturally the weeding out process is actively at work. To see the 
end results at their best one must turn to the overcrowded cities of China 
and India—with bodily adaptation at the expense of mentality. Our un- 
sanitary cities in time produce a class of people little different from John 
Chinaman, with all that that implies, including the use of narcotics and 
sedatives, if not opium then tobacco and alcohol, or cheaper coal tar prep- 
arations. 
THE WHERE, WHEN, WHY OF DRINKING. 
A question, or rather several questions, a student must constantly 
ask is, Why do men drink? Why does an apparently sensible, decent sort 
of man have a craving for strong drink? Why do some demand it more 
or less constantly, some periodically? Under what conditions is the cray- 
ing most marked? In short, Where, When, and Why do men drink? 
Here are a few representative cases. The figures are of course only 
relative; one can not express the complex life of a man mathematically, 
there are too many exceptions. 
GOOD AND BAD AIR AND THE DESIRE FOR DRINK. 
Mr. W., farmer 0/24 0/7 4/365 (4 times a year to town = sick) 
Mr. H., farmer 0/24 1/7 75/365 (visits to church and town) 
Mr. X., professional 8/24 6/7 290/365 (15 days in wildwoods) 
Mr. X., businessman 8/24 6/7 300/365 (300*8=2400 out of 8760 hours) 
Mrs. X., the wife x/24 1/7 75/365 (75X2=150 out of 8760 hours) 
Mr. B., mechanic 24/24 7/7 365/365 (‘‘Always thirsty’’) 
Explanations of the chart (table) must be brief. 
