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meats, fish and fowl, and the darker portions of the grains, etc., with peas and 

 beans." 



Remarks. — The above principles are facts; then, if any person desires to be 

 less fat, let them be governed by them, and they will obtain their desire; indo- 

 lence and self-indulgence are the mothers of fatness. (See also " Dropsy and 

 Anti-fat Medicine in One.") 



1. LIQUOR— A Ciire for the Love of it.— At a festival at a 

 reformatory institution recently, a gentleman said, of the cure of the use of 

 intoxicating liquors: " I overcame the appetite by a recipe given to me by old 

 Dr. Hatfield, one of those good old physicians who do not have a percentage 

 from a neighboring druggist. The prescription is simply an orange every morn- 

 ing a half hour before breakfast. ' Take that,' said the doctor, ' and you will 

 neither want liquor nor medicine.' I have done so regularly, and find that 

 liquor has become repulsive. The taste of the orange is in the saliva of my 

 tongue, and it would be as well to mix water and oil, as rum, with my taste." 



Remarks.— 1 will add to this, keep away from where it is sold, taking the 

 orange as directed, and you will be safe. If you go into saloons, no matter how 

 much you may try to avoid drinking while there, there will be pretended friends 

 — real enemies — who will urge you to drink, and even attempt to pull you up 

 to the bar, and try to force it into your mouth. I speak from knowledge. I 

 once had two young men — I was then young myself — get a cup of brandy, and 

 one of them behind me and the other in front, tried to force me to drink it; but 

 I got a chance to get a foot against a bureau and pushed back enough to get 

 room for a kick, and that cup and brandy went, as the saying is, "higher'n a 

 kite," — it went to the ceiling, — and then I said, " Boys, if you don't let me alone, 

 I will kick you, too, but drink I will not." But I should have had to fight, if 

 the boss for whom we all worked, had not stepped forward at this juncture, and 

 said " Boys, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You know Chase told us 

 this morning that he did not drink, and, hence, went and borrowed a rifle, and 

 has spent all day to get a deer for us to eat; now, let him alone." At this they 

 gave it up. The occasion being when a saw mill, in which we worked, had been 

 sold — this was in 1834 or '35 — and the giving possession had to be done with 

 whiskey and a high day. The difficulty is, people — men or boys — do not say no 

 with suflScient vim. When enticed to evil, let the no have a ring as though you 

 meant just what you said; then, unless the enticers are drunk, as they were in 

 the above case, you will generally have no trouble, especially if you do not put 

 in your presence at their haunts of vice. In the above case, it was a boarding- 

 house for the mill, and I had nowhere else to go. I will only add, if a man 

 does not want to drink, he mod not; if he wants to drink, nothing can save 

 him. He is bound to destruction. He is, like Ephraim, "joined to his idols," 

 — you may just as well— " let him alone." 



2. Liquor— The Use of It Leaves a Permanent Injury.- An 

 American physician, who has given attention to the study of alcoholism, said in 

 the course of an address recently delivered before a learned society: "There 

 are constantly crowding into our insane asyhmis persons, 50 to 80 years of age, 

 who in early life were addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors, but who had 



