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" The belief that alcohol gives strength to the weary is 

 particularly dangerous for the class of people which con- 

 tains the most numerous members. The poor people, 

 whose income is already insufficient to procure a suitable 

 subsistence, are misled by this prejudice into spending a 

 very considerable part of their earnings on alcoholic drinks 

 instead of purchasing good and palatable food, which alone 

 can give them strength for their hard work." G. von 

 Bunge, Professor of Physiological Chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Basle. 



Beer and Alcohol not Strengthening. "The popular idea 

 that beer and other alcoholic drinks are strengthening is a 

 mistake, a delusion, a mere superstition, which receives no 

 support from science."- A. Mullen, M.D. 



Alcohol lessens Endurance. "Unconscious experiments 

 on a large scale in many ways have shown that alcohol in- 

 creases muscular fatigue and lessens power of endurance ; 

 in the same way experience has proved that no work re- 

 quiring accuracy and steadiness, or brain or nerve force, 

 can be done well under the use of alcohol." T. D. 

 Crothers, M.D. 



What makes the Muscles act in Harmony ? Have you 

 ever seen two persons, one using the right hand and the 

 other the left, try to sew, one holding the cloth, the other 

 using the needle ? Would they get along well ? Suppose 

 one were to hold the needle, and the other were to try to 

 thread it, each using one hand. Why is it that the right 

 and left hands of two persons cannot work so well together 

 as the right and left hands of one person ? What connec- 

 tion is there between the two, that one knows just what 

 the other is doing and when it does it ? Why can two 



