78 GOOD HEALTH 



when their enemy comes they are helpless and cannot 

 get away. 



The enemy is the bird. When he sees these butterflies 

 in this sad plight he is delighted, and picks up one after 

 the other, swallows them joyfully, and looks around for 

 more. If he could talk about it, I suppose he would say 

 that alcohol is one of the best things in the world because 

 it helps him to get a hearty meal every day. 



No doubt many a man who sells alcohol thinks so 

 too. But what about the butterflies? And what about 

 the men ? 



Dr. Hodge is the professor of physiology in Clark 

 University, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also a 

 student of animals. For this reason, a few years ago, he 

 was asked to find out whether alcohol does human beings 

 any harm in certain directions. He was sure that the 

 quickest and best way to go to work was to press various 

 cats and dogs into this useful service, for he knew, as 

 we do, that things that are unwholesome for animals 

 are usually unwholesome for people, and that food which 

 nourishes animals will generally nourish men too ; that 

 is, poison that kills a dog will kill a man, and food that 

 fattens a dog will probably fatten a man. 



In this way, then, animals sometimes pass most useful 

 lives. By being rather uncomfortable and not very ener- 

 getic for a while they have taught careful, scientific men 

 lessons which will end by saving thousands of human 



