How Does A Man Save His Soul from the Monster of Strong Drink? Look for answers in the old fashioned treatsie- Grappeling the Monster!
Arthur exclaims No Man Safe Who Drinks!..he may have from ancestors, near or remote, an unhealthy moral tendency, or physical diathesis, to which the peculiarly disturbing influence of alcohol will give the morbid condition in which it will find its disastrous life. That such results follow the use of alcohol in a large number of cases, is now a well known fact in the history of inebriation.
Book highlights the work of various temperence organizations inebriate assylums, and coffee houses.
..efforts have been made in the past few years to establish cheap temperance coffee houses, where working men may get a good noon day lunch at a trifling cost. In all cases, these have been found of great service to the cause of temperance. A pint mug of excellant coffee, with sugar and milk, and a large sweet roll costing five cents, are found to make a far better and healthier lunch athatn the highly-seasoned hashes, called free lunches, which must be washed down by a five cent glass of liquor. Mention is made of the Market Street to Broad, in Philadelphia-in which Coffee Houses were springing up all over, with the help of Mr Joshua Bailey, Philadelphia Merchant.
Reports of cures, by the New York State Assylum-Binghampton, NY, that pioneered such assylums nation wide, are given. Description of fascility, cost, number of patients, and how many are favorably discharged.
Some of the Contents Are:
The Curse of the Body & Soul
The Woman's Crudade-Christian Temperance Movement
Reform Clubs, Temperence Literatue
Prohibition