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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1915.
HOW WE DIG OUR OWN GRAVES-BY DR. WOODS.HUTCHINSON, A M.
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LIVE WHILE YOU, CAN
AND FORGET ABOUT DYING
"To Live Vigorously, Usefully
( - to Promote Longevity and
I Auinoniy. :
-TO THE HEALTHIEST, LIFE
IT DOESN'T matter in he least how
fufet we dig -our own graves, bo long
as we do not fall into them too
previously. r Indeed, if wc enjoy the
process awl sire of soiye little use
to the world meanwhile, digging our
own graves may he wholesome .and
" profitable exercise. Our equanimity
' need not ho in the slightest degree
' " disturbed hy tlm thought ttiat. sooner
or later, we shall lie down to rest in
0 them at list.
Of all the utterly trivial and insig
nificant considerations where and. uf-
1 ter 60. when we shall find our-last rust
ing place is the least worth worrying
v over. If wo spend 10 minutes, on n.
We are wanting time. i-ife Is some
thing, death Just nothing at all.
There uro many wors places than
the grave.
Yea, there is for the night a resting j
i place,
A root lor when the long, dark nour.s
begin.
May not the darkness hide It f rorrt"4r
face? Ye cannot miss tliat inn,
v that peaceful inn which hath 'beds
for all who come."
Living takes three score years. dy
' lng, 10 Beconds. and this represents
the true proportions each should oc
cupy' in our thoughts. fiot "Mem-i-nto
niori," but "Hemeiriber thou imist lie,"
' tohould be our motto, and as for death,
forget it." It takes neither brains.
" nor courage, nor skill to die. and when
" It happens, p are the only ones of
- those present who don't know it, and
the most utterly unconcerned. But.
1 however confident we may be that the
grave in only the soft lap of Mother
Karth which receives us painlessly for
1 oUr last dreamless sleep from which
we wake again In the flowers .that
bloom over us, we. are not anxious t j
sink into it any sooner than is neccs-
eary.
.We may entirely agree with llub
aiyat 113 of Omar the Tent Maker
I sometimes think that never blows
bo red,
' The rose as where some buried Caesar
bled,
: That every hyacinth the garden wears
' Dropt in its lap from sonic once lovely
, . " head,
vand yet not hanker to go into the'pure
floricultural business a day too soon.
We want to do our work, to live our
life, first; and if there be any sins, or
r mistakes, either of omission or com
k mission, which fights against this sin,
i vt are anxious to avoid them.
What Shorten Xdfs.
The question has been brought for
ward prominently of late, by a paper
on the avoidable causes which shorten
human life, before a national gather
ing of life insurance experts. From
the records of the insurance compa
nies, with their millions of histories
of life, illness and death, huge masses
tT data were collected bearing up or:
this or that "hazardous" occupation,
, this Or that questionable habit, over
fatness or overthinness, underfeeding
or overfeeding. Upon this imposing
basis, amounting in one category to
something like 2.000,000 individual rec
ords, were based some fairly definite
and 'plausible conclusions as to tho
things 'which n:en are doing which
shorten their lives. Kither digging
- their graves deeper than necessary so
that they will fall into them with an
uncomfortable thump' or tripping
themselves into them before their
. time. .
The -Inquiry covers so wide rang-
of human activity and interest that it
furnishes an interesting and suggest
v Ive basis for the consideration of th-r
- ever-appealing problem. Can a man
by .doing this or avoiding that, add
a decade, or even half a decade to his
span of life?" Broadly considered and
regarding that hypothetical creature,
the average man, or the' community as
a Whole there cannot be the slight-
- est hesitation in answering emphat;
'cally, "Yes." For one of the most
. striking and unanimously attested
facts in the realm of medical science
and vital statistics is the rapid and
. continuous increase in the length of
human life .during the last half cen
tury. Just to take the rough average of
length of life, as determined by tho
crude age at death of those dying a
given year, the almost incredible im
" provement has been effected from on
average longevity of about 30 years in
1875, to one of a little over 51 years
In 1915, in these United States, rio
that we may lay the consoling unction
to our souls that whatever mistakes
we may be making in detail, our orig
.,. Inal line of action has been sound and
wholesome and we are entitled to keep
on taking it with a clear and hopeful
, conscience until further orders, or
, fresh llrumftialion is vouchsafed. We
are wasting less of our time in grave-
' digging today than ever before in hU-
tory. ,
i - Gloomy View of an Expert.
This our insurance expert seems to
. ".Tail to recognize if correctly reported
?, and, although he does not go out of
Ms way to be aggressively pessimistic.
She Stopped Her Son
From Drinking
A St. Louis Woman Stopped Her
Son From Drinking With a
, Simple Home Recipe That
She Gave Secretly.
She Tells What She Gave.
A well known resident of St. Ixmis.
; whose son had used liquor to excess
f or years, broke him of the habit by
using a simple home recipe which she
' grave secretly. In reply to the ques
. tlon as to what she used she made
th following statement: "I used a
- simple prescription which I mixed at
bom and It is as' follows: To 3 oz. of
' y water . add 20 grains of muriate or
. ammonia.- a small box of Varlex Com
pound and 10 grains of pepsin. I gave
a" teaspoonful three times a day in
Ms coffee. Any; druggist can mix it
- for you. or supply these ingredients
at "very Jtttte cost-' . This recipe can
: ua given secretly in corree. tea or milk,
or in the food, as it has no taste!
. color or smell and is perfectly harm
, Jessi, . . I believe any mother or wife
can do as I have and rid their dear
. ones of this awful habit," (Adv.)
and Happily Is the Best Way
Human Efficiency, Asserts J
IS ONLY GOOD PLAY
he leaves us undisturbed in th pre
vailing melancholy conviction that our
nerves and our livers and our kidneys j
are going to pieces under the rack and
strain of civilization, and that only
vigorous action along the lints sus- '.
Rested by him can prevent, a collapse '
of our civilization alter the olansic .
and terribly overworked examples of
G-reece and Jtorne. Incidentally if what i
is rather vaguely known as "Western"
or ;eito- t eutonic civilization, ismbi
as long, makes as .splendid a mark,;
leaves as superb monuments anil
claims upon human gratitude and has
as good a- lime in doing It as either
Greece or Rome, it will, in the lan
guage of the day, "have no kick com
ing.'' I.'vcn if it. too, one day peters
out and fails under the inevitable
doom.
"Jnlo the iright go one nd all,"
of whicli, howeer. there i.s not tho!
slightest sign at prcbdit; o,uite V
coutrar.v, in fact.
Civilization is l longer national,'
but world-wide, ,-iml depends upon no
one nation, no otic race, n one conti
nent, lor its continuance and health,
but has a base as broad as the entire
human species. Another significant
omission from the general picture' oi
our insurance expert's statement i:
that hi: makes no attempt whatever
to explain the singular and to th
man in the street puzzling paradox
that while the average span of life
has increased at this enormous ra te
and th average prevalence of disease
decreased in almost the same ratio, ,
there has been no substantial red uc
tion in 60 years' time In the rates !
charged for insui-ing said human life. !
On the contrary, if any change has
occurred, it has usually been in the '
direction of an increase, as nation- '
wide organizati'JHwas computed and i
"gentlemen's agreements" made more ;
binding. The companies are still do- i
ing business at the old stand at the
same old rates that were calculated,
in one table. 40 years and in another
60 years ago, when the average long
evity was 33 instead of 5t, as now, and
the average death rate 30, as against
the present 1 3.
State Insurance.
One of these days the state will
take over tho life insurance business
and then we shall get protection for
those we leave behind at little moiej
than half the present ' rates. The list I
of sins against long life which our
expert presents Is interesting, because j
it so closely corresponds to the pre- i
vailing impressions of the man in the
street as to the things which lie ought
to do or ought not to do or be, if
he wishes to reacn a good old age. For
instance, over-eating, social dissipa
tion of various sorts, too swift a pace,
drinking too much and being either
too fat or too thin. In the main, most
physicians and health experts would
agree with him, that the man who
avoids these various forms of excess
is healthier, happier and more likely i
to live out his full, natural span of
life than the man who doesn't. But, j
for the consolation of those of us who :
have attained the dominant decades
that crown cur first half century
the youngsters are making the sput- ;
ter, but we are "the works" it is j
only fair to recall that at 50 we ami
the products -of all the five decades j
preceding, and that many of the things I
wre are now doing are as insepara- !
ble a part of us as the color of our !
hair (such as we have left) or the ,
tone of our. voices. j
Moreover, while there are always '
room and time for improvement, in
the main, that general conduct of life '
which has brought us to a reasonble
degree of efficiency and success in a
fair state of preservation at 6o 1-j
entitled to considerable resdect.
We can neither turn Into mummies
nor alabaster saints at 48 hours' no
tice, and a reasonable amount of fool
ishness is necessary to the wis eon- i
duct of life. Do the best you can to i
aioia every evil as fast as you seel
it, but don't be unduly anxious or ap
prehensive about it. You may brace j
up at one point, only to break over at
another. Itise with an easy rein, don't
grip the saddle. Keen your eves ooen
and keep going. When you pull up you
begin to wabble.
One Way to Live.
It is far better to live 65 years vig
orously, daringly, red-bloodedly, and
then go smash all at once the more
suddenly the better than to reach 70
or 75 with one foot perpetually in our
graves and one finger ever on our !
pulse. The ever-widening knowledge I
and power of science are proving be- !
yond dispute that "man is man and j
master of his fate." and with reason
able good tense and pluck, that fate
win always be a tolerable one, even
though we have to do some things oc
casionally which, from a purely hy
gienic point of view we would like to
avoid, if we could. What can we men
of middle life, or later, actually do to
lengthen our lives or render them
healthier, happier and more efficient
while they last? First of all, by liv
ing just as hard, just as usefully and
happily as we can. Much more Is
lost by not doing things than by doing
outtui ana rack and per
petual distractions of civilization which '
our philosophers lament so lugubrl-
ously, instead of breaking us down, j
me vciy imngs mat Keep us alive.
City dwellers, above the level of the
slums, live longer than country dwell
ers. The one path which leads toward
the grave with greater rapidity and
certainty than any other is a rut, even
if tjjat rut consists in what we are
pleased to term "good habits." For
all habits are bad. under 70, at least
wiien you are Hungry. Drink'
when you're thirsty; work when you j
feel like it: stop when you are tired;
in biological terms, "respond to your
environment-- These are the ideal
rules for a full, useful happy life. I
wD jiuiiuiuons to the principle
... v.,.Ucw mature, ana you will quickly
enough find these out from experi
ence. But the minute you begin to pro
tect yourself behind a secreted cal
careous shell of so-called habits, you
begin to build your coffin.
For instance, our insurance expert
lays stress upon over-eaUng as a
shortener of life. There are at least
ten times as many deaths and dis
eases due to under eating as to over
eating. But the poor cannot afford
oiu-une insurance, thence don't ap-
pea? on the death lists. Tuberculosis.!
for instance, with its one-seventh of
w. w.iuieaeam rate, is chiefly dua
to under feeding, and cur hv rvot
nn lk and cream. Pneumonia and ty
phoid, the two next most deadly scour
ges, tall most heavily upon the under
fed, and are cured by fresh air and
abundant food. Afl the acute . infec
tions, almost without exception, wreak
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Dr. Woods Hutchinson, former Portland physician, whose discussions
terms are widely read.
their heaviest vengeance upon those
who are under nourished. Against
these, the death roll from over feed
ing can bring forth only gout, rheuma
tism, cyrrhosis of the liver and dia
betes. At least three out of these four
are now knowlf to be due to infections
and very little affected either one
way or the other by food, except that
certain articles of diet aggravate them
after the disease has already devel- j
oped.
This lllustratees a flaw which un
derlies all the findings of insurance
experts, viz., drawing rather sweeping
conclusions from data based upon a
rather limited class, and period of life,
viz., the kind of men who apply for
life insurance in the big old-line com
panies, ,who are distinctly tire more
prosperous and substantial members
of the community; and the conditions
of these men after the age of 45. j
To such a class, it may be advisable
to preach abstinence in the matter of
feeding,' partly because, being at least
able to afford whatever they want,
they can indulge hankerings which
they may have been obliged to sup
press all their lives heretofore. But
more because the keen, vigorous ap
petite which was the secret of their
success during their years of strug
gle and ambitious adventure, hangs on
and over into the period of dignified
ease when they are able to sit majes
tically at a desk and make other peo
ple do the hustling and drudgery. The
real cure for the over gorged and ple
thoric conditions which may result un
der these circumstances, is not less
food, but more exercise.
If you have a good appetite, pr.ze
and cherish it above all things, it is
your best possible asset if not toi
a long life, for a full and happy one,
which is much more important- But
play up to it, for every pound you
eat, play an hour In tha open air. no
matter what at, so long as you enjoy
It and go through some sort of mo
tions. Whether with your legs in walk- '
ing, or tennis or golf, or your arms
In rowing and boxing, or of your body
in swimming and horseback riding,
and gardening, or your arms and your
How to Fight Tuberculosis
Xn a paper read last year before the
Bazar County Medical society and pub
lished la part In the Ziouisvllle 'Med
ical Prog-Teas," Br. J. W. Carhart of
Sam Antonio, Texaa, a physician who
has devoted much time to tha study
of tuberculosis, said: "Sine lime salts
constitute three-fourths of all the min
eral substances of the human body,
they must be supplied In tha foods r
supplemented In mineral preparations,
or natural starvation ensues with tu
berculosis unchecked. - The widespread
and unchecked spread of tuberculosis
and other preventable diseases is duo
largely to tne aecalcined (lime lacking-)
conditions of multitudes through
out ins crvxueza woia."
Thus from another authoritative
medical source comes justification for
the Use of lime in the treatment of
tuberculosis.
Since this is one of the ingredients
of Eckman's Alterative, much of the
success attending the widespread use
of this remedy doubtless is due to
the combination of this salt n such
a way as to render it, easily assimil
able. It causes no stomach disturb
ance, and. since it contains neither
opiates, narcotics nor' habit forming
drugs, it is safe to try.
Eckman's Alterative has effected re
markable results in numerous cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis (consumption)
and allied chronic affections of the
throat and bronchial passages. In manv
instances &uch conditions, apparently,
have yielded-completely to it.
In ram your druggist is out of it,
ask him to order, or send direct to ut.
Zckmsm Laboratory, Philadelphia. Adv.
ns "V:- "$Jk. ' k
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lungs and your soul on the bleachers.
All the sound, wholesome food you
can eat with an appetite, won't hurt
you a particle, so long as you burn
it up clean by exercise In the open
air, an hour to a pound. The exer
cise may be of the mildest sort, so
long as it keeps you in the open and
amuses you. Motoring, trolley tour
ing, yachting, eitting out on the porch,
are capital coffin-nail extractors.
Lazy Habits ratal.
Of course, if a man of 50 has be
gun to be unable to burn up certain
classes of his food, such as sugars,
fats, meats, in the order of difficulty,
then he will have to take expert advi' e
and be guided thereby In the choice
of his tnenu. But at least three
fourths of such alleged Inabilities are
now found to be due to the lazy, stuffy,
flabby habits .which begin to grip
him about this time of life, or to the
after results of some half-cured slum
bering infection. Keep away from
coughs, colds and snuffles, from
flushed faces and heavy eves, from
sneezers and hawkers and epitters, if!
you would have your days be long in
tia . T f ot-K,.. .nAnnn Ml
- .cut.. - j ni n .t iu JrKjm
room, don't say, "Gesunheit!" but
"Chase yourself!" Shoo them into se
clusion unt the curse is off them,
and do the same with yourself when
you're "full of cold'' and watery-eyed.
"Man born of woman Is few of days,
if full of sineezes."
The deadliest enemies of the middle
aged and the elderly man, as of th-i
child and of the youth, are one and
the same thing the acute infections
coughs, colds, sore throats, diarrhoeas
and dysenteries and the after effects
of consumption, typhoid, pneumonia
and rheumatism. And the best guards
against them at every age are rich
and abundant food, especially meat,
play in the open air and breezy bed
rooms at night. As our expert well
says, simple knowledge of preventable
diseases would do much to lengthen
life. The same thing may be said of
the claim that fatness or overweight
is , the deadly foe of long life. This
again is far more a symptom than a
cause of anything, .either good or bad;
and coming on, as it is most apt to
do about this time of life, means any
one of three things, hereditary ten.
dency, beginning trouble with the liver,
kidneys or heart, resulting in the un
due retention of water in the system;
or 'fat making or fat-headed habits of
life. (Not a little of our so-called
"fat" is simply water bloat).
Fat People Head Hot "Vorry- .
The first cause, hereditary tendency,
would account for at least two thirds
of all cases. We may as well- frankly
recognize that the tendency to put on
weight between the ages of 40 and 50
is a normal, comparatively harmless
process, analogous to the other piles
of golden stuff which we ought to be
accumulating at this time. That it
runs its own course and provides its
own cure, in the equally inevitably
shrinking from the "good round belly
with fat capon lined," of 50, to the
"shrunk shank and lean and slippered
pantaloon" of 65 or 70. It can usually
be kept within reasonable limitb by ac
tive enjoyable outdoor habits of life.
Never give in or behave as if you are
old and fat and you never will be
either to any damaging extent until
after 70. If it comes on too suddenly
and goes to such unwieldly extremes
as to embarras your movements or
shorten your wind, go to your doctor
and have a thorough examination, to
see whether it is water-log instead of
fat.
If he relieves your mind upon this
bead he will probably-also be able to
suggest measures for keeping it within
endurable bounds, and you may possess
ycur soul in patience with the thought
that you. will probably, get rid of it
again on" the other side of 65, and in
of medical matters in popular
the meantime it won't do you any par
ticular harm so long as you keep a
good appetite, walk five miles or more
every day, and sleep with your win
dows open. Just look over the fat men
and the thin over 50 of your acquaint
ance, and make up your mind which
group gets the most enjoyment out of
life. It won't take you long to decide.
Many Corpulency Theories Absurd.
Much of our expert's denunciation
of fatness as a shortener -ot life is
robbed of its terrors by his singular
definition thereof: "Forty pounds or
more over normal weight for heignt
and age." As the normal weight at
50 for a man of average height is 170
pounds, this would make the heavy
weight class of our expert average 210
pounds, perfect human sausages, a con
dition which even the man in the street
knows to be either a sign of serious
trouble, or an invitation to disaster,
without the aid of deductions from
statistics based upon 2,000,000 cases.
It's twice as easy to hit such a man
with an automobile or a street car, or
even to mash him in a railroad wreck,
or trap him In an elevator door, to say
nothing of risks from breaking down
carriage springs and smashing through
chairs, or Inability to crayl out of a
window in case of fire. Broadly con
sidered, fatness under 190 pounds will
do its owner little or no harm, unless
he tries to cure it either by patent
medicines or amateur dieting, both of
which are about equally dangerous and
impair his health and vigor twice as
much as they reduce his weight
Social dissipation often comes in for
severe -arraignment as a shortener of
life. So far as that form of social
dissipation is concerned which involves
the risk of two serious blood diseases,
the second number in Goethe's famous
triad, "Wein, Weib und Gesang," this
is Just. Both of them not only mark
edly shorten life by impairing the brain
and nervous system producing nearly
one third of all our forms of extensive
paralysis, and even more frequently
the heart and blood vessels, producing
aneurism, apoplexy and arterial decay.
But there is a way to lay even thhj
ghost. If the man of middle age is
happy enough to have a clean slate and
a clear conscience in this regard, he
may congratulate himself upon being
safe from nearly half his risks of
paralysis and two thirds of his risks
of those prostatic and cystic troubles
which often render old age a torture.
But if he has not, and there be any
reasonable doubt, or unreasonable, that
any traces of them still linger in his
system, he can go to a physician and
have one of three different blood testa
made, two of which are a mere pin-
(Q)3M?i
(5M
for , x
Sore Throat
and
Cold inchest
First rub the chest or throat with
Omega Oil ; then soak a piece of flan
nel with the OH and put it around the
neck or throat, and cover with a piece
of dry flannel. This simple treatment
usually gives relief. Trial bottle ioc,
prick and the other as trifling as a
vaccination that doesn't "take."
These will usually either relieve his
mind entirely, or, if trouble still
exists, put him in the way of curing
it up completely and leaving no fear
of any spectre of his past rising up
to haunt him. But if by "social dis
sipation" is meant what are. common
ly known as social amusements
dancing, card parties, club nights,
the concert, theatre, opera, garden
parties, club nights, the balance of
proof inclines the other way. With
all their excesses and extravagances,
with their late hours and overheated
air and full undress, it cannot fairly
be claimed upon any evidence yet
brought forward that such habits,
foolish and wasteful as they may
become, actually shorten life. On the
contrary, the class which most reck
lessly indulges in these pleasures is
precisely the one which has the lowest
death rate and the highest average
longevity. Hankers, noblemen, public
officials, clergymen and successful
men of affairs and their families are
the classes which stand at the head of
the longevity tables.
Of course they are usually superbly
fed, beautifully housed, groomed to
the highest pitch and spend half of
their daylight hours nt some sort of
grown-up play or sport in the open
air. It is the patient and Industrious
day laborer, the pious and hard work
ing' peasant who is oftenest sick, who
breaks down earliest and who dies
years before his time. Fanners have
a gpod longevity, farm laborers a poor
onei Broadly considered, most of us
would be better off, physically and
mentally, if we had much mere dis
sipation In this sense and enjoyment
in our lives; particularly the great
wage and salary earning class. As il
is, such little snatches of pleasure
as we now get are the tilings that
ktep us alive. The multiplication of
country clubs for the comfortably off
and of people's clubhouses for the
workers is one of the greatest steps
toward health and happiness of the
last two decades.
Hang on to your pleasures. Dont
r m 1 UTT '
May reacn vags
Scientific Farming
Cleveland Plans Putting Prisoners
prom the Pcllqs Court at Work on a
2000 Acre Parm.
Cleveland, Or., Feb. CO. A pln to
give the recreant "vag" a hand at
scientific farming by putting the '-'000
acres of Warrensville farm, Cleveland,
great corrective institution, under sci
entific cultivation, is being worked out
here.
Not tinly the tramp who comes out
of th police courts with an enforced
vacation tagged on him, but every
prisoner would be given an opportunity
to tend his little patch of onions, car
rotsf peas, corn, or whatever tho case
might be.
The major portion of the farm will
be cut up into lots of 40 acres or so. in
order that experimentation can pro
gress on a larger scale than is now
customary on state experimentation
farms. A complete and scientific rec
ord of the crop from "seed to shuck"
would bo kept by experts.
The proposed project is being put
into form on the assumption that
Western Reserve university and Case
School of Applied Science here may
some day be merged into a municipal
university, requiring a course in sci
entific agriculture.
BRITISH BUILD ZEPPELINS
New York, Feb. 20. Five Zeppelin
destroyers airships constructed along
new llnes are now under construction
near London for protection against
threatened air raids along the .British
coast, according to Thomas Rutherford
MacMechen, president of the Aeronau
tical Society of America, who said the
destroyers would be faster than Zep
pelins, smaller, easier to navigate, and
would fire aerial torpedoes.
NOTABLE COLLECTION
OF WASHINGTON RELICS
IS OWNED BY MASONS
(Continued from Pae Six.)
merely said: "I am not surprised at
what George has done, for he was al
ways a good boy."
Washington came with his suite of
French and American officers to Fred
ericksburg after the decisive battle.
An orderly preceded him. "Madam,"
announced the orderly, "his excellency
will be here within an hour."
"His Excellency!" repeated Mrs.
Washington. "Tell George I shall be
glad to see him," and then, to her
maid-servant, "Patsy, I shall need an
other apron."
The conqueror of .Cornwallls arrived
and was affectionately greeted. But
during the conversation that followed
she made no reference whatever to his
military exploits. There was a ball
that night in the town in Washington's
honor, and she appeared leaning on his
arm and danced a minuet with him.
In these later years their relations
were not pleasant, to tell the truth.
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Your Life
AMAZES ALL WHO WRITE TO KIK.
Thou sand: of
people in all walks
of life have bene
fited by this man's
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AND YOU CANT GROW OLD
Work Hard and Contentedly With a Care for the Food.
You Eat and "the Air You Breathe' and Your Life l-s
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Then we should no longer care for
alcohol, because there would be no
She spread reports that he was not
treating her well in money matters,
and he suffered a great deal of pain on
this account.
She died of cancer on August 26,
1789, at the age of 83 years.
Twice attempts were made to pass a
bill erecting a monument over her
grave, but both bills failed in congress.
In 1830 the women of Fredericksburg
i.ndertook to raise a monument, and
this comlnt to the knowledge of a
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need to drug ourselves against dis
comforts, or drown tho memory of
past miseries by drink, and t lie terri
ble indictment set forth by our ex
perts against alcoholism would n'
longer need to be brought. The
amazing and most gratifying reaction
against drinking, which Is netting in
so powerfully all oxer lite civilised .,
world, is based largely upon . the fact -that
for the first time in blutory the
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and warm houses to live in. -The" bet-
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and beer money. The more sugars
and fruits, the less alcohol craved. -.
A healthy, happy nation tiaa no need
of the illusions of narcotics, the day
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In order to imagine itself prosperous
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sick and unhappy und short lived and
rankling under the sense of injustice."
they will drink. So don't blame the
alcohol for everything that happens
to drinkers.
Leaving out tho clearly defective
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those classes who work the hardest V
that die the earliest, not those who
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unfortunate, overworked and underfed
ones drink heavily is a coincidence,
not a cause.
wealthy New Yorker, named Silas K.
Burrows, he took It 6ff their hands. ,
The cornerstone was laid,- I'rcaiderit,
Jackson delivering an address. But
the monument was never erected. Bur
rows, the stone' mason and the con- -tractor
died, and the work languished.'
Twenty years aco, however, the women
of America took the matter up and
raised a monument, which was dedi
cated i on October 20, 1893. by Presi
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