Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes / With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System

by Jane Andrews

11. How did tobacco affect the men who went to the Arctic seas with Lieutenant Greely?

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CHAPTER XIX.

WASTED MONEY.

COST OF ALCOHOL.

OW that you have learned about your bodies, and what alcohol will do to them, you ought also to know that alcohol costs a great deal of money. Money spent for that which will do no good, but only harm, is certainly wasted, and worse than wasted.

If a boy or a girl save ten cents a week, it will take ten weeks to save a dollar.

You can all think of many good and pleasant ways to spend a dollar. What would the beer-drinker do with it? If he takes two mugs of beer a day, the dollar will be used up in ten days. But we ought not to say used, because that word will make us think it was spent usefully. We will say, instead, the dollar will be wasted, in ten days.