vessel of cold water. The cold changes the vapor to a
liquid which is whisky.]

=Whisky and Rum.=--These two drinks are strong in alcohol. Nearly one
half of each is pure alcohol. Whisky is usually made from rye, corn,
or wheat, or all three together. They furnish the food in which the
yeast grows and makes alcohol. This watery mixture of grain and
alcohol is then heated and the vapor or steam forms whisky after it
goes off through a pipe into another vessel. This kind of heating is
_distillation_. Rum is formed in somewhat the same way from molasses
or cane juice.

PRACTICAL QUESTIONS

1. Name some alcoholic drinks.

2. What is an unnatural thirst?

3. Explain how the yeast plant forms alcohol.

4. Tell how beer is made.

5. Tell how wine is made.

6. What is brandy?

7. Which drinks contain most alcohol?

CHAPTER X

ALCOHOL AND HEALTH

=The Money spent for Alcoholic Drinks.=--If the money spent for
alcoholic drinks were all collected together in silver dollars, it would
more than fill ten schoolrooms of average size. Not only rich men spend
large sums yearly for fine wines and brandies, but also the poor give
their money for beer and other drinks which the body does not need.

When parents waste their money on drink, they cannot buy the food and
clothes needed to keep their families strong and well. In this way
strong drink causes much sickness and suffering and sometimes even death.

=Alcohol injures the Body.=--Some persons drink very little beer or
wine, so they seem to have but little effect on the health. Others use
strong drink every day and for a few years they may remain quite well.
Later ill health often comes on, and they then find that some of the
organs have been so much hurt that they will never be quite well again.

A few years ago a group of fifty well-known men in the United States
spent much time and thousands of dollars to learn how much alcohol was
harming our country. After much study among many people they announced
that there were about one million men and boys whose health had been
injured by strong drink, such as beer, wine, and whisky. Because
strong drink causes so much sorrow and sickness several states have
passed laws forbidding its sale, and saloons have been closed by laws
in parts of many other states.

=How Alcohol affects Kittens.=--The body of a kitten is made very much
like the body of a child. It has just the same or