he fruit-juice itself by the
change of the sugar into alcohol and the gas.

[Illustration]

It is the nature of alcohol to make the person who takes a little of it,
in wine, or any other drink, want more and more alcohol. When one goes
on, thus taking more and more of the drinks that contain alcohol, he is
called a drunkard.

In this way wine has made many drunkards. Alcohol hurts both the body
and mind. It changes the person who drinks it. It will make a good and
kind person cruel and bad; and will make a bad person worse.

Every one who takes wine does not become a drunkard, but you are not
sure that you will not, if you drink it.

You should not drink wine, because there is alcohol in it.

CIDER.

Cider is made from apples. In a few hours after the juice is pressed out
of the apples, if it is left open to the air the sugar begins to change.

Like the sugar in the grape, it changes into alcohol and bubbles of gas.

At first, there is but little alcohol in cider, but a little of this
poison is dangerous.

More alcohol is all the time forming until in ten cups of cider there
may be one cup of alcohol. Cider often makes its drinkers ill-tempered
and cross.

Cider and wine will turn into vinegar if left in a warm place long
enough.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

1. What two things are in all fruit-juices?

2. How can we tell the juice of grapes from that
of plums?

3. How can we tell the juice of apples from that
of cherries?

4. What is often done with ripe grapes?

5. What happens after the grape-juice has stood a
short time?

6. Why would the changed grape-juice not be good
to use in making jelly?

7. Into what is the sugar in the juice changed?

8. What becomes of the gas?

9. What becomes of the alcohol?

10. What is gone and what left?

11. What is alcohol?

12. What does alcohol do to those who drink it?

13. When are grapes good food?

14. When is grape-juice not a safe drink?

15. Why?

16. What is this changed grape-juice called?

17. What is wine?

18. From what is wine made?

19. What do people sometimes think of home-made
wines?

20. How can alcohol be there when none has been
put into it?

21. What does