If the pulse is feeble and fast, breathing light, body cool?
What course should be followed if poison is taken by mistake? Suppose the dose described does not cause vomiting?
What of sulphuric acid?
What is the only safe rule?
CHAPTER XVII.
CIGARETTE SMOKING.
I have now a few words to say to the boys. I hope the girls will also listen, and help to impress the words on their friends.
Most of you have fathers, mothers, and perhaps brothers and sisters. You love them more than all the world. What would you think if I should tell you I can make you hate your mother, strike your father, lie, cheat, steal, do everything vile, and at last send you, disgraced and despised, to a wretched death?
You are shocked and cannot believe it; but, if you will walk the path I mark out, you will do just what I have said and reach the dreadful end—that is, if you live long enough.
SMOKING CREATES A MORBID THIRST.
The first step is cigarette smoking. It will give you catarrh, weaken the lungs, cause heart disease, destroy the health, and create a morbid thirst which will lead you to the second step,—the drinking of cider, beer, and malt liquors. Soon you will crave stronger fluids, and will swallow gin, wine, brandy, whiskey, rum, and all sorts of seductive drinks made from alcohol.