probably
weakened their stomachs, so that they could not make the best use of
such poor food as they had.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

1. Why do you wear thick clothes in cold weather?

2. How can you prove that you are warm inside?

3. What makes this heat?

4. What carries this heat through your body?

5. How rapidly does your heart beat?

6. How are you losing heat all the time?

7. How can you warm yourself without going to the
fire?

8. Will alcohol make you warmer, or colder?

9. How does it cheat you into thinking that you
will be warmer for drinking it?

10. What do the people who travel in very cold
countries, tell us about the use of alcohol?

11. How did tobacco affect the men who went to the
Arctic seas with Lieutenant Greely?

CHAPTER XIX.

WASTED MONEY.

COST OF ALCOHOL.

[Illustration: N]OW that you have learned about your bodies, and what
alcohol will do to them, you ought also to know that alcohol costs a
great deal of money. Money spent for that which will do no good, but
only harm, is certainly wasted, and worse than wasted.

If a boy or a girl save ten cents a week, it will take ten weeks to save
a dollar.

You can all think of many good and pleasant ways to spend a dollar. What
would the beer-drinker do with it? If he takes two mugs of beer a day,
the dollar will be used up in ten days. But we ought not to say used,
because that word will make us think it was spent usefully. We will say,
instead, the dollar will be wasted, in ten days.

If he spends it for wine or whiskey, it will go sooner, as these cost
more. If no money was spent for liquor in this country, people would not
so often be sick, or poor, or bad, or wretched. We should not need so
many policemen, and jails, and prisons, as we have now. If no liquor was
drunk, men, women, and children would be better and happier.

COST OF TOBACCO.

Most of you have a little money of your own. Perhaps you earned a part,
or the whole of it, yourselves. You are planning what to do with it, and
that is a very pleasant kind of planning.

Do you think it would be wise to make a dollar bill into a tight little
roll, light one end of it with a match, and then let it slowly burn up?
That would be wasting it, you say! (_See Frontispiece._)

Yes! it would be wasted, if thus burned.