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of laws prohibiting the sale of good bread, pure milk, 

 or fresh meat ; but there are ordinances in almost 

 every city against selling impure milk or bad meat 

 to any one. This is because, like alcoholic drinks, 

 they may do great harm. Young people are also 

 usually protected from the danger by the fact that 

 few parents will allow their children even to taste 

 liquor. The principal reason girls and boys should 

 learn about the effects of alcoholic drinks is not that 

 they are likely to use them, but that they may form 

 the right ideas about their use in the future. 



Knowing these facts, we should always regard alco- 

 holic drinks with the same horror felt at the first sight 

 of a staggering drunkard, and resolve never to use 

 them. May we all grow up to manhood and woman- 

 hood with these ideals and purposes firmly established : 

 To respect our minds and bodies and want them always 

 to be at their best. To love our companions, and let 

 no act of ours lead them to degrade their bodies or 

 cripple their wills. To wish them and ourselves' to 

 be and to do all the good and noble things that a kind 

 Creator has given ability for being and doing. To 

 refrain always from handicapping our bodies by using 

 any drink that may disease or degrade them. 



