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8. What is said about alcohol as a food ? 9. Explain 

 why alcoholic drinks do not warm persons who are cold. 

 What does Commander Peary say about alcoholic 

 drinks? 10. Give the meaning of spurious, degrading, 

 boisterous, community, gradually, page 74. 11. Tell the 

 meaning of less companionable, material prosperity, ex- 

 cesses, overindulgence, brutal, overwhelmed, and blighted, 

 page 75. 12. Compare the effects of too much food 

 on the body with the effects of too much alcoholic drink. 

 13. Tell why a little alcohol each day is a hindrance rather 

 than a help to the body. 14. Give the meaning of in- 

 sidiously, page 76. 15. What dogs were selected by 

 Dr. Hodge for his experiment? 16. What effect had 

 the epidemic on Bum and Tipsy ? On Nig and Topsy ? 

 17. Tell about the experiment with the dogs in the gym- 

 nasium. 18. Tell other bad effects of alcohol on Bum 

 and Tipsy. 19. What is said about users of alcoholic 

 drinks getting well from dangerous diseases ? 20. Why 

 are college boat crews and ball teams not allowed to use 

 alcoholic drinks during the period of training? 21. Give 

 the meaning of international, contestants, capable, recorded, 

 total abstainers, prolonged, unquestionably, indicate, page 80. 

 22. What do insurance records show about the average 

 length of life of those who use and those who do not use 

 alcohol ? 23. Tell the meaning of desserts, abstaining, un- 

 necessarily, unnatural, page 81. 24. Give synonyms of 

 threshold, dread, creating, social, repulsive, page 81. What 

 dread power has alcohol? 25. Explain why beginning to 

 drink alcoholic liquors is like starting to swim the whirlpool 

 rapids at Niagara Falls. 26. Who are not employed by 

 railroads in certain positions of trust? 27. Why have 

 many strong men fallen victims to "John Barleycorn"? 

 28. Tell why it is wrong for educated Christian people to 

 visit places where liquors are sold, or to allow liquor to be 



