WINE.
This changed grape-juice is called wine. It is partly water, partly alcohol, and it still has the grape flavor in it.
Wine is also made from currants, elderberries, and other fruits, in very much the same way as from grapes.
People sometimes make
it at home from the fruits
that grow in their own gardens,
and think there is no
alcohol in it, because they do
not put any in.
But you know that the alcohol
is made in the fruit-juice itself
by the change of the sugar into
alcohol and the gas.
It is the nature of alcohol to
make the person who takes a little of
it, in wine, or any other drink, want more
and more alcohol. When one goes on, thus
taking more and more of the drinks that
contain alcohol, he is called a drunkard.
In this way wine has made many drunkards.
Alcohol hurts both the body and mind.
It changes the person who drinks it. It will
make a good and kind person cruel and bad;
and will make a bad person worse.
Every one who takes wine does not become
a drunkard, but you are not sure that
you will not, if you drink it.
You should not drink wine, because there
is alcohol in it.
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CIDER.
Cider is made from apples. In a few hours after the juice is pressed out of the apples, if it is left open to the air the sugar begins to change.
Like the sugar in the grape, it changes into alcohol and bubbles of gas.
At first, there is but little alcohol in cider, but a little of this poison is dangerous.
More alcohol is all the time forming until in ten cups of cider there may be one cup of alcohol. Cider often makes its drinkers ill-tempered and cross.