TEMPERANCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 7

TEMPERANCE.

VICES HUNT IN PACKSWhoever forms the habit of using strong drink will bo likely to bo getting other bad habits along with it. Ho may lose- time in frequenting the places where liquors are sold and drunk, and may learn thus to he idle. Ho may come to love these places better than his home, which is in all ways one of the worst of bad habits. He will be very likely to fall into bad company, and may lose the relish for that which is good. He will almost necessarily hear much profane and vulgar speech, and may learn to use it himself. Altogether, this liability to fall into injurious habits, and into vile companionship is one of the most serious evils to be apprehended from the use of intoxicating drinks. A man may escape from the shame of absolute drunkenness and from premature death, and perhaps from poverty brought on by his indulgence, but this mischief by exposure to contagion of other evils, is one that few, even of moderate drinkers, go entirely clear of. And it ought to receive more attention than is usually given to it.— Gongregationalist. AT THE LAST IT BITETHThe diseases of wine-tasters were studied by Donnet of Bordeaux, and Dr C. Marandon of Dijon. Wine-tasters are frequently snffering with disturbances similar to alcoholism, although the claret-tasters do not Bwallow the wine, but, on the contrary, reject it, and even rinse their mouths after.

wards. In one case of Dr Donnet’s a man 32 years old used to taste every day thirty or forty samples of wine, and occasionally liquors and rum, without ever swallowing any part of them. After two years he became very excitable, lost his appetite, did not sleep well, and suffered with disturbances oksensibility, pains in the breast, a feeling of weakness, and a difficulty in breathing. He improved after abandoning his profession, although a nervous debility still remained as noticeable by the facility with which he was set in tears. Another statement made by Dr Donnet is the great nnmber of apoplexies in Bordeaux, where persons drink one and a half litres of wine with each meal. The number exceeds the number of apoplexiesin any city in the world. Dr Marandon did not notice any symptoms of intoxication in Burgundy tasters, although some of them would swallow the samples. He remarks that tea-tasters always swallow the tea, and this fact, he says, explains the nervous symptoms they are affected with. —Deutsche Medizinal Zeitung.