Identifier: healthylivin01wins (find matches)
Title: Healthy living
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957
Subjects: Health
Publisher: New York and Chicago, Charles E. Merrill company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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icliquors affects the quickness of a mans nerves and theaccuracy of his actions. He becomes a little bit slowand a little bit clumsy. The world nowadays has not much use for slow andclumsy people. In the factory and in the ofhce, a manor a woman must think quickly and act quickly; andthe one who will get to the top is the one who can dothe work best and in the shortest time. So most of thelarge employers of labor will not, if they can help it, em-ploy a man who drinks alcoholic liquors. Many rail-roads, for instance, forbid their men to use alcohol at all.Think what might happen on a railroad if the engineersbrain were not perfectly clear and his hand perfectlysteady. The lives of the people on the train may de-pend on his seeing a signal and stopping at the rightmoment; and those lives will be in danger if he hasclouded his brain by drinking alcoholic liquor. 152 HEALTHY LIVING It is not only personal success that a man gives up ifhe becomes a slave to the habit of using alcohol. The
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Fig. 58.—The safety of hundreds of people depends on thesureness and the quickness of the man who drives thelocomotive. If he should weaken his power of controlby the use of alcoholic liquor, all their lives would bein danger. railroad engineer who wrecks his train because he wasnot sober is himself one of hundreds who may perhapsbe killed as a result. Whenever we do any of our workbadly, it hurts some one else. FREEDOM FROM BAD HABITS 153 The Cost of Alcohol.—The habit of using alcohoHcdrinks is a very expensive and a very wasteful habit.It wastes health, on account of the direct damage doneto the drinkers. It wastes time and energy, on accountof the poorer work they do. It wastes the money whichit costs to build and keep up the factories where thealcohohc drinks are made. It wastes the valuable foodsubstances which are used to make them. Wines are made from grapes, by pressing out thejuice and letting it stand and ferment. Fermentationis a change of the sugar in the grapes into

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