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Strong drink and tobacco will put to naught the most 

 elaborate and costly system of physical training. Men 

 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 indulge in 

 alcoholic drinks or even to smoke or to chew tobacco. 



Experience has proved beyond all doubt that strong drink 

 is a positive injury, either when men are in training for 

 or undergoing contests demanding long-continued physical 

 endurance. No smoker who has ever trained severely for 

 a race or a game needs to be told that smoking reduces 

 the tone of his system ; he knows it. 



The same law holds good in the ordinary physical exer- 

 cises of everyday life. Alcohol and tobacco act as poisons 

 to the nervous tissue which controls the muscles, and thus 

 lessen the amount of muscular power and endurance. 



The demands of modern life call for a sound body. He 

 who indulges in alcoholic drinks or tobacco runs a risk of 

 having a weak body instead of a sound one. 1 



1 Total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco is required from all competi- 

 tors while in training for athletic games and races. A man who, after elec- 

 tion as a member of his college crew, should be found secretly drinking beer 

 or smoking would be hissed out of college. H. NEWELL MARTIN, M.D. 



The tobacco habit is injurious to health, to scholarship, and to charac- 

 ter. It weakens the will, diminishes the power of application, and lowers 

 the tone of thought and feeling. Excessive smokers are uniformly poor 

 scholars. W. D. HYDE, D.D., President of Bowdoin College. 



No railroad, electric-car, steamboat, telegraph, or telephone company, no 

 manufacturing concern or printing house will to-day, if they can help it, 

 employ a man who is a regular drinker, to say nothing of a drunkard. 

 Safety first forced this action on certain corporations and others have fol- 

 lowed out of economy, and it will not be long before no concern will be 

 able to afford to employ the man who drinks. HENRY GRAFTON CHAP- 

 MAN, in The World's Work, 



