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testimony of sagacious physicians that alcoholic drinks and to- 

 bacco tend to check the growth of the bones. 



" The smoking of cigarettes is especially hurtful to growing 

 boys, because such a habit tends, besides other harmful things, to 

 dwarf the growth of the bones. A well- developed form is some- 

 thing to be prized. No wise boy or girl will risk attaining it by 

 indulging in filthy or injurious habits while young." 



Under Physical Exercise (page 68) we have : 



"THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS AND TOBACCO ON 

 PHYSICAL EXERCISE. The main object of physical exercise is to 

 get our bodies into such a condition, and to keep them in that con- 

 dition, whereby the average amount of working power can be 

 utilized at any time without harm to the bodily health. To keep 

 up this amount of physical power and endurance we must be 

 obedient to certain great laws of health. 



" One of these laws, which never can be violated with impunity, 

 is that which forbids the use of alcoholic liquors and tobacco. 

 Strong drink and tobacco will put to naught the most elaborate 

 system of physical training. 



"Those who train athletes, baseball and football players, 

 oarsmen, and all others who take part in severe physical contests 

 understand this, and rigidly forbid their men to touch a drop of 

 alcoholic drink, or even to smoke or chew tobacco. Experience 

 has proved beyond all doubt that strong drink is a positive in- 

 jury, either when men are in training for or undergoing contests 

 demanding long- continued physical endurance. 



" The same law holds good in the ordinary physical exercises 

 of everyday life. Alcohol and tobacco act as poison to the nerve 

 force which controls the muscles, and thus lessen the amount of 

 muscular power and endurance. 



" The demands of modern life call for a sound body rather than 

 a strong body. Neither is possible to those who indulge in alco- 

 holic drinks or tobacco." 



In like manner, at the end of every chapter, the effect of alco- 

 hol and tobacco, like the refrain of a song, comes in to recall the 

 real motive of the whole. There is a long and essentially ac- 

 curate account of the origin and formation of alcohol. Another 

 chapter gives experiments to be performed with this fluid. At 

 the end of the book, in an appendix, are twenty pages of notes, 

 collected from all sorts of authorities some good, some doubtful, 

 some worthless " concerning the nature and effects of alcoholic 

 drinks and other narcotics." A strong case is there made against 

 these evil agencies, and no testimony in mitigation is allowed or 

 even hinted at. For easy reference the following table of the 

 chapters on alcohol is given (pages 329, 330), which shows the 

 thorough saturation of the work with the alcohol idea : 



