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214 now HABITS ARE FORMED 



of a newly prepared weak solution of argyrol in each eye. This 



may prevent serious eye trouble. 



Many eyes are imperfect because the curvature of the lens is not 



normal. Such defects are 

 a cause of headaches, and 

 should be remedied by an 



How far away can you read these letters? OCulist. 

 Measure the distance. Twenty feet is a test n^u^ -n^z^t^ tt-,-u:4. 



for the normal eye. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^ablt. — 



This chapter has had to do 

 with habits and is the best place in the book for a discussion of 

 the alcohol question. Although prohibition has made it harder 

 for people to obtain liquors, many still drink and some seemingly 

 cannot help it. Let us see why. 



The first effect of drinking alcoholic liquors is that of exhilaration. 

 After the feeling of exhilaration is gone, for this is a temporary 

 state, the drinker feels depressed and less able to work than before 

 he took the drink. To overcome this feeling, he takes another drink. 

 The result is that before long he finds a habit formed from which he 

 cannot escape easily. With body and mind weakened, he attempts 

 to break off the habit. But meanwhile his will, too, has suffered 

 from over-indulgence. He has become a victim of the drink habit ! 



The Economic Effect of Alcoholic Poisoning. — In the struggle 

 for existence, it is evident that the man whose intellect is the quick- 

 est and keenest, whose judgment is most sound, is the man who is 

 most likely to succeed. The paralyzing effect of alcohol upon the 

 nerve centers must place the drinker at a disadvantage. In a 

 hundred ways, the drinker sooner or later feels the handicap that 

 the habit of drink has imposed upon him. Even before the days of 

 prohibition, many corporations, notably several of our greatest 

 railroads, refused to employ any but abstainers in positions of trust. 

 Who knows the number of railway accidents due to the uncertain 

 eye of the engineer who mistook some signal, or to the hazy 

 inactivity of the brain of the train dispatcher who, because of 

 drink, forgot to send some telegram that was to hold the train from 

 wreck ? In business and in the professions, the story is the same. 

 The abstainer wins out over the drinking man. 



Effect of Alcohol on Ability to do Work. — In Physiological 

 Aspects of the Liquor Problem, Professor Hodge, formerly of Clark 



