manufactured on a large scale and is described as " commercial glucose." It is 

 usually produced by boiling starch with acids, and is quite wholesome when properly 

 prepared. In these days there is little cause 



TO SUSPECT THE NATURE OF THE COLOURING MATTER EMPLOYED 



to render candies attractive. The risk associated with their consumption lies rather 

 in the temptation they offer to eat sugar to excess and in too concentrated a form, 

 when it is liable to exercise a seriously irritant effect on the stomach, interfering 

 with the digestion of other foods besides itself. 



TO AVOID THESE RISKS 



it is wise to imitate the comparative dilution in which sugar occurs in natural foods. 

 such as milk and fresh fruit. A healthy adult can eat the equivalent of a quarter 

 of a pound of cane-sugar a day with advantage; but this amount should be dis- 

 tributed over his three meals and should appear in varied forms. If called upon 

 for sudden and severe muscular exertion, the addition of another ounce to the day's 

 allowance will be found directly beneficial, as it is a rapidly absorbed source of 

 energy. 



THE WORTH OF SUITABLE FRUIT 



as a medium for sugar for adults and children must again be emphasized, on account 

 of its digestibility when so taken; and an urgent appeal is made to all readers and 

 their children to restrict or to reduce to vanishing point the deplorable extra vagam-e 

 involved in a constant consumption of candies. 



THIS APPEAL IS A REALLY EARNEST AND URGENT ONE: 



(1.) Because, almost without exception, candies present sugar in an un whole- 

 somely concentrated form, inevitably damaging and irritating. 



(2.) Because they breed dyspepsia and other ailments, the result of being 

 "sucked" at odd hours, and thus overtaxing the digestive organs by depriving them 

 of their necessary rest; with the effect of promoting poor nutrition and ill-health. 



(3.) Because they interfere with wholesome and natural appetite for simple 

 food at regular intervals and cultivate a taste for highly flavoured fare, which often 

 leads to a whole train of unsuspected mischief, of which one form assumes that of 



INTEMPERANCE IN RESPECT OF ALCOHOL. 



One reason for habitual recourse to alcohol exists undoubtedly in the apparent 

 fillip which it gives to a jaded palate and the relief temporarily experienced from the 

 discomforts associated with digestive disorders. The explanation of these is found 

 iii the fact that one of the first results of alcohol is to numb certain sensations, 

 which give rise to the false and dangerous misapprehension that it has cured them. 



WHEN THE HABIT OF EATING CANDIES AT ALL HOURS 



is established during childhood, healthy appetite wanes, nutrition suffers, and the 

 palate craves for more and more powerful stimulants. With youth comes greater 

 liberty of action and increased temptation to resort to any means which will give 

 an appearance of being lively, attractive, or manly. Alcohol in some form or another 

 seems to offer just the desired spur. The tired, unhealthy stomach is whipped into 

 a spurt of activity, the depression of dyspepsia is temporarily dispersed by the false 

 excitement which follows a glass of spirits, and the wits appear to be brightened; 

 a sharpness which to those who know the true working of alcohol in the body, simply 

 means that the usual power of self-control is numbed and the ordinary and desirable 

 reserve of speech and gesture is relaxed. 



IT WAS OF DELIBERATE INTENTION THAT TEMPERANCE WAS 



ENUMERATED 



among the advantageous results of providing intelligently varied food on the family 

 table. Many a lad and girl slip down the slide of intemperance from no other cause 



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