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..- rlaiis,- of this statute ill tin- Stut- or Territory 

 t hich it is iiltixed. 



+ 'I'lu- d air ire r signifies that tin- study is not only 

 nmiidaton , I'lit is rco,iiiivd n|' all pupils in all whooli. 



e double dagger ignifios tbal tin- .-tud\ 

 t mi red of all pupils in all school-., and is to he | . 

 witli text l">oks in tin- hands of pupil.- al-K- to n-al. 



| The parallel indicates that tin- stiid\ i- in lie 

 tauifht in tin same nialilii-r mid u* thoroughly as 

 other rcimiicd branches. 



!> Tin- section mark indicates that ti-\t I ks mi 



this topic iiM-d in primary aii<l intermediate schools 

 must jfivc '""' fourth their space to temperance 

 matter, and those Used in hi^h schools not les UllUl 

 twciitN paircs. 



Tin- paragraph indicates that M<> tcaehcr who 

 lias not passed a satisfactory examination in thin 

 subject is granted a ci -rtiticatc r aiithori/cd to teach. 



At the close of 1891, :{." States and all of the 

 Territories, including the District <if Columbia, 

 the Indian and colored schools, and national 

 military and naval academics, \\i-re under 

 temperance education laws. co\ering at least 

 r,>.(MMMMM) children of school age. Only nine 

 States were without such legislation, and bills 

 providing for this instruction are now before the 

 legislatures <if three of these .New Jersey. Ken- 

 tucky, and Mississippi. 



The Parliament of Sweden in 1891 enacted a 

 temperance education law, while in Canada. 

 Kngland. Finland, Norway, (.iei many. Fiance. 

 India. Australia, and other countries, preliminary 

 agitation for the same is going on. A gold 

 medal was awarded the exhibits of plans, re- 

 ports, text-books, etc., of this department by 

 the French Committee of Awards at the Paris 

 Exposition in bss!) ; mid a like exhibit won a 

 diploma from the Massachusetts Charitable 

 Mechanic-' Asocial ion in 1890. 



l>ut this great volume of legislation is only a 

 part of the movement. Not only the legal de- 

 mand for an entirely new Mtidy in the public 

 schools of the whole country had to be created, 

 but school literature for all grades of pupils, its 

 methods of teaching, and interest and abilit\ <>n 

 the part of teachers. There were text-books on 

 temperance, but those did not meet the need. 

 AS unhygienic habits and methods of living 

 may lead to indulgence in alcohol and other 

 narcotics, the remedy proposed is an all-round 

 physical education, including enough physiology 

 to enable the pupils to understand tin- la\\> of 

 hygiene and the consequences of violating them, 

 especially in the ca.e of narcotics. These sub- 

 jects are therefore made a part of the study, as 

 demanded by law. Scientific temperance may 

 be therefore defined as physical education: or 

 hygiene, including tho nature and effects nf 

 alcoholic drinks and other narcotics, with enough 

 anatomy and physiology to make it intelligible. 



When the movement began there were no 

 manuals of instruction or text-books that in- 

 cluded the whole subject. The pa age of the 

 New York law roused authors and publishers, 

 who had before doubted there ever In-ing a MI-- 

 tained demand for this school literature, and 

 books hurriedly prepared, with little or n<> tem- 

 perance matter, but mostly technical physiology, 

 and badly adapted to grade, were rushed upon 

 the market. The duty of procuring better 

 hooks and the revision of the imperfect one- had 

 to lie met as the work of legislation went on. 

 In 1887 an advisory board of representative men 

 vol.. xxxi. 52 A 



wiw appointed. The gent,, 



Uard an- Hon. \\nliaiii T. llai 



I'nited States ( oinini-sioner of Kdi.. r. 



A. II. Plumb, lt.lt., i f llu- 



Boston Monday leciiin-hi| 



1). 1)., I'nited Slates .Miperinlend. nt ,.f Indian 



Schuol.s; \\ illiain A. MO\M\. Ph. 1>. :H nd \\ illium 



Iv Sheldon. Pivsident of the N,.ti(,nal '!';. 



..ition in I>-N;. As di-cu i,,n ,,n tin- \<\i- 

 liook question went on, the need of an an;! 

 live standard became evident. In \**1. with 

 the aid of the advisory boaid ai.d special \- 

 perl-. a syllabus of topics that Ix.ok- on (hi* 

 subject .should teach was prepared, signed l,\ 

 more than iidO of the most repre-entat i\e nan..'- 

 ol the United Slates in^ medical, chemical, edu- 

 cational, legislative, and other <-ir -h-- 

 in the public good, and was sent, to all puhh-hcr* 

 of this kind of literature, re-pect fully asking that 

 their books on this topic be re\is. d to contain 

 the latest truths of M -ience as set iorth in the 

 petition. The following is a digest of this: 



It' this new education is to five fi the world a 

 gcm-nitioii of intelligent total id .stumers. it manuals 

 of instruction must conform to the lollipwin^ sj>-firl- 

 eutions: 



1. They rnust tench with no uncertain sound U* 

 ] n.Mil findings of science, vi/. : , <i\ That alcohol it 

 a dangerous und .-edm-tive poi-mi. i//, Tluit Ke.r. 

 wine, and cider contain this same alcohol, thu* 

 n.akiiiir them daiiu'erous drinks, to In- avoided, nnd 

 that they are tl.e ]>n<luet of a fermentation thu 

 eliiiiiL'es a ti.d to a ] oi-< n. 1,1 '1 liat it is d.,- 

 nature of any 'liquor ci.ntiiiiiinir alcohol to en-utj an 

 appetite for n. ore. which is so apt to l.ciome imcun- 

 tiolhiKle that the stroiiifest wurimiL' should }< 

 against tr.kii:g that little and thus tormiujr tin 

 appetite. 



_'. They must al-o teach the cti'i et of the-e 



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the hllliuill svstem. that is, uiIl the w liolt- IM-IIIL'. 

 n.elital, moral, and jihysieiil. The :ij>]>alliiiL r eth-t-ts 

 of drinking hal'its upon the eitizciislnpof the nation, 

 the degradation and crime n-Milting. demand that 

 instruction here should irivc clear and emphatic 

 utterance to the feolMim warnings of science ii]>n tliiti 

 subject. 



During 1884-'85 and 189-'91 numerous I 

 were written or revised to meet the demands 



of science. 



From its inception the National Dej>artinent 

 of Scientific Temperance has been in consulta- 

 tion with eminent authorities as to its various 

 phases of work legislative, j hysioli gical. chem- 

 ical, and educational. In the interest of scientific 

 accuracy, extensive researches have bevn made 

 and are now carried on in the great medical 

 libraries cd' Wellington. New York. Philadelphia. 

 and Boston. The headquarters of the depart- 

 ment are at Hope Cottage. Hyde Park. M 

 suburb of Boston. Here a corps of secret aric- 

 aid in replying to inquiries, and send out printed 

 aids and other plans. A literary a i-tant 

 searches the Index Mtdiciis. a clas-itied index of 

 the current medical literature of the world, ami 

 other indexes, for all the new uttcrnm 

 medical, physiological, hygienic, or chemical 

 subjects, on sanitation, fermentation, and kindred 

 topics. The IM nks or articles thus f,,und n 

 procured, translated whin necewanr, topically 

 ( la-iticd. and lidded to the < i- 

 six'cial library on this subject at ll-i 

 The department has now in training IHTJOIW 

 from different parts .-f tb . untry, who are 



