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quences of excessive tea-drinking are, dry ness of the 

 mouth, loss of appetite, biliousness, a feeling of sick- 

 ness at the stomach, nervousness and unreasonable 

 trembling, troubled sleep and terrifying dreams. In 

 their full development, these symptoms are often met 

 with in professional "tea-tasters;" but they are not un- 

 frequent in idle men and women, who take no part or 

 interest in the world's work and who strive to keep 

 themselves from utter stagnation by drinking strong 

 tea, morning, noon, and night. 



Coffee taken in excess tends rather more than tea to 

 dilate the channels through which blood passes to the 

 brain. It then causes a feeling of "fulness" in the 

 head and flushes the face. It is more apt to produce 

 wakefulness than is tea; but its action on the digestive 

 organs when it is taken in excess is not so bad. Some 

 people have their digestion disturbed by coffee with milk, 

 so that it gives them hazy vision, dizziness, and head- 

 ache, while the same persons experience no harm from 

 the same amount of coffee without milk. 



7. Alcoholic Stimulants. Young persons do not gener- 

 ally know what alcoholic stimulants are, and often sup- 

 pose them to be only the various forms of "strong 

 spirits," such as brandy, rum, gin, and whiskey. But all 

 wines contain alcohol, and so do all beers, cordials, and 

 even cider, except when it is perfectly new. Many of 

 the "tonics" so widely advertised, are also alcoholic 

 drinks, sold under a false name. We have already 



coffee-drinking? Consequences of excessive tea-drinking? In 

 whom most often fully seen? What other class of people are apt to 

 exhibit them? How do the effects of excessive coffee-drinking differ 

 from those produced by tea? 



7. Name some drinks containing alcohol. Why is it obvious that 



