ALCOHOLIC HOWLERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9301, 7 March 1907, Page 6

ALCOHOLIC HOWLERS.

GEMS FROM YOUTHFUL ESSAYS ON

EVILS OF DRINK.

Some 12,660 children in the Hull elementary schools recently entered with childish enthusiasm a competition for a prize essay on the evils of drink. Some gems extracted from these essays were quoted by Dr W. McAdam Eccles, F.R.C.S., the w,ell-known surgeon, in a lecture on the education of the public respecting alcohol before the Society for the Study of Inebriety.

We quote the following "howlers" from the pens of the young moralists of Hull : —

"When a man is overcome by drink, he should be taken, or go to a hot place."

"Seafaring men who are in the habit of drinking are liable to collide with other vessels."

The next example is a pathetic wrestle on the part of a child with a well-known text:

"Alcohol is a mocker. At last ifc biteth like a servant and stingeth like a hatter."

"Alcohol has an effect upon a medical man's conclusions."

' "Doctors say that fatal diseases we the worst."

"Doctors' say that the increased deathrate shortens lives."

"Some men turn into lunatics (sic), and have to go to the Lunatic of Sylum."

"Some people think that the abuse of drink is right; some take it as a medicine."