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Temperance And The Home

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Day
2
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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(Conduitcdby the H . C. 'f. V.) BICYCI E VKBSÜS TOBACCO. Tlu United States Tobbaco Tnurnal declares that the bieycle has caused a total reductioii in tlie consumptlon of cigars for the year of 'geven hundred miiliou. The Journal Insista that the decrease ín the production of cigars lias kept pace wlth the lacrease in the production of the wheel and henee declares that the bicycle is an enemy to the tobáceo trade and ivi:i hereafter tic treated as euch. AVhile this little near is going on between the tobacconlsts and the bicyelers, we ma y congrafulate ourselves that the air ve breathe is laden with a uiillion or more less vapors of eigar smoke. BCIBNTIFIC TEMPEHANCE INSTÜCTION. Mrs. 'Lucy D. Ij. Parker, superintendent bf the "Scientifie Temperance Iustruction," departrnent of the W. C. T. TT., gave at the last meeting of thab Organization, a very complete and coinprehensive history of this very1 important department whieh aims to secure such legislation, both local and state, as shall make the stuily and teaching of the laws of Jiealth, wifch special reference to the effect of stimulants and narcotica upon the human body, obligatory throughout the entlre system of public education. From the first compulsory teraperance educational law enacted in Vermont in 1882 she went through the work year by year, until, in 1895, when only three states remain in whioh temperance instruction has not become compulsory ; 'over twenty million children receive by law the benefit of these instructions, and there are twenty-five revised and endorsed books. Four of t!ie Canadian I'rovinces by legislative enactment, and others ly order of the Boards of Education re qulre ïhis study in their public school as 'do Finland, Sweden and other coun tries. 'Reporta fiom twenty ooun tries beside the United States, show more or less interest aroused n mak ing Physiological or Seientific Instruc tion a part of the required education of the young. Among these ,-oun tries are England, France, Germany, Bussla, Denmark, Bulgaria, Turkey India, Spain, China, Japan, Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, South Afrka and Australia. TEMPEKANCE SCRAP BAO. President Roosevelt's enfoicemeut of the iaw has extended to the elub houses, clósing the bars of most of the clubs. Stockholm, the citadel of the Gothenburg system, is said to Have the largest death roll from aleoholism oí any city in the world. Ninety In one thousand üia from excessive use of iutoxicants. The members of the W-. C. T. ü. wijJi to extend thanks to Coroner Ball lor tlio donation of his tont for their use during the fair and for for the moving and setting up of the same, also to other parties who lendered kindly assistanee. Sta(istics gathered and published by Gambrinus, a beer oigan of Vienna, Austria, give the wor'd's production of beer for 1894 as 5,477,862,221 gallons. The Volee calculates that tho beer kegs sufiicient to hold thlfl quantity, -vould belt the earth seven times at the equator. Two 'hundred "Fair Xunibers" oí the Union Signal, tied with white ribbons and haring suitable scriptuie motto cards attached, were distributed on the fair grounds, during the Fair, by Mrs. Chas. Worden, Supt. of Temperance Literature of the loal -W. C. T. U. Tho Kew Tork Sun of Sept. 24, speaking of the yacht Defender's crew s;ij'h : "Some of the crew go ashore nightly. They evade the drinking places." Of Valkyrle's crew it Bays: ■'The lOOth barrel of beer i-sumed by her Engüsh crew e:nce thei arrival In America was opencd and drank." Is tliis why the Talkyrie lost the raco ? The high board ferce around the placo where Intoxican ts were sold on the fair grounds was doubtless intendc'. to hide from view whatever was not clean and attractive at the fair. No fence has ever yet been built around our homes and our deur ones liiüli enough to shut out the wily serpent of intemperance, and it is equally truc that none wlll ever be built around the saloon high enough to simt In its shame and degradatioí and pin.

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