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MANUAL OF NATURE STUDY. 
The following rules are quoted from Johonnot 
and Bauton’s Lessons in Hygiene, page 49:— 
“ I. We should not drink cider, because it is 
the nature of the alcohol in cider to create an appe¬ 
tite for more alcohol. 
“II. Cider deadens the senses and tends to 
make its drinkers ill-tempered and careless about 
doing right. 
“III. We should get our grape juice by eating 
the healthful and delicious grape. 
“ IV. When the grape juice has been squeezed 
out and its sugar turned into alcohol, it is a pois¬ 
onous drink, and we should not take it. 
“ V. Home-made wines, if produced by ferment¬ 
ation, are unsafe drinks, because they contain al¬ 
cohol. 
“VI. It is the nature of alcohol, in even the 
weakest wines, to create an appetite for more alco¬ 
hol. Thus wine tends to increase intemperance, 
rather than to decrease it, as some have supposed. 
“VII. Fermentation is a part of the process of 
making bread, but the alcohol is all evaporated 
out of the unbaked bread. We should not eat 
bread that is not well baked. It is not digestible. 
“VIII. Beers produced by fermentation con¬ 
tain alcohol. We should not drink beer of any 
kind. 
