INTRODUCTION. SI 



It seems unnecessary to review the powerful arguments 

 on this point which able writers have so often placed before 

 the public, but wives and mothers cannot hear these les- 

 sons too frequently. "When housekeepers leara that un- 

 due exhilaration is always followed by corresponding de- 

 pression and that food and drink which tend t'^ inflame 

 or excite, create a thirst for beer, wine, or brandy, they 

 will forever dispense with highly spiced dishes. 



Dr. J. C. Jackson, a man of great experience in tieating 

 the intemperate, writes these startling words : 



"Drunkards ai-e not made in salcions, they are simply 

 graduated there. Thev take their initiation in their 

 homes around their own tables. The father and mother 

 lay in themselves the foundation and carry over to their 

 cliildi-en a constitutional liking for stimulants. This 

 liking existing in the child as a tendency is developed 

 under the table arrangements into an actual appetite. So 

 from the eating of stimulating and exciting foods affecting 

 the nerves of the stomach, arises an irritable condition o£ 

 the nerves of nutrition and, by reflex action, of the nerves 

 of taste, till there is awakened a longing for something to 

 overcome the feeling of exhaustion which, where stimu- 

 lants are not in use, la always noticeable and sometimes im- 

 perious. " 



In the paper read before the British Association by C. 

 V. G. Napier, F. G. S. that scientist took strong ground in 

 regard to a farinaceous and fruit diet for the intemperate. 

 He asserts that persons using such food without meats 

 "feel no inclination for alcoholic liquors. I have noticed 

 that a taste for spicy condiments, butcher's meat and alco- 

 holic liquors is associated, and that a taste for plain-fla- 

 vored vegetables, fats and oils, is likewise associated, I 

 have known persons in the habit of taking alcoholic stim- 

 ulants daily, when eating meat, who find they must give 

 them up entirely when living without meats, their action 



