Since all this is true, wise children will let cider, lager, ale, wine, and every other kind of alcoholic drink alone, and never, NEVER,
"Put an enemy into their mouths,
To steal away their brains."
| HARM DONE BY ALCOHOL TO THE | |
| NERVES. Takes away their moisture, and paralyzes them. Takes away their power to control the muscles. Makes them unfit to carry messages to and from the brain. | BRAIN. Fills or congests its blood-vessels with impure blood. Collects in it, and paralyzes it. Hardens its albumen. So hurts it as to cause craziness (insanity) and death. |
MORE ABOUT THE HARM DONE BY ALCOHOL.
In the lessons you have learned you have been taught about the harm done by alcohol to the body and the mind; can you tell, from what you have seen of drunken people, in what other way alcoholic liquors hurt them?—"They make people waste their money; they make them waste their time; they make them cross; they make them fight; they make them say silly and wicked words; they sometimes make fathers and mothers hurt their children; they make people lose their good name; they often make them do things for which they are sent to prison."
Yes, this is only some of the mischief done by alcohol. If you could fly around the world and see everybody who has been hurt in any way by this terrible poison, what a sad, sad sight you would behold! At least half the trouble in the world comes from strong drink.