On this page
-
Text (1)
-
106 INTOXICATING BEADING.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
The Evil Of Intoxicating Drink Is One Of...
humanity . There are an immense number of these . Twentythree weeklperiodicals lie before mefour of them are one
half-penny each y , the rest a penny ; and not , one of them contains a that is not the vehicle for circulating the vilest information
connected page with our nature . They vie with each other in producing * scenes of villany , and the u sensation " they cause
are all those of the base and vile kind . The impure , the immodest , the superstitious , the revengeful , and the liar are all
managed act skilful lik l e y the delineated so dram as to intoxication g ; ive and tli , e with most results subtlety effective from and " their sensation craft exhibition , . they " Th are ey it-;
creeps on slowly , and steadily ; " the next number of c Black anything Jack , ' and until the I next know , and what the becomes next ; of I must c Brinvilliers get it , I '" can and 't do so
on . The penny , to procure this poison , is obtained , God , knows horn ! it is boughtreadless and less shuddered atsoon
swallowed down approving , l , y , and then unconsciously reproduced , in the subsequent life of the victim .
Low out , coars and e , diluted vulgar , so illiterate as to reach novels the , in level which of the romance and is poor
i spun gnorantare as little likely to be seen and tested by the educated , classes as the liwherein the same section of the
coiaiHunity seek their physical quors intoxication , and are from their nature innocuous to the better-taught and more cultivated
members of society . But the u Sensation Heading " they give is not the less a eral evil 7 and direct injury to the whole body
politic . From this gen form of intoxication we have a large number of those helpless , hopeless , dreary creatures , that throng our
the zealousl any busy positive vain haunts y disseminating the , energy hang weak ing for the a good evil dead waster . , if wei The not g the ht frivolous entirel there wanton , y , useless the bad the sill / and y proud as , the at regards work idle the ,
refined gossip , the the , conceited lounger , , the and affected all other , , the such sen live timental on , this , substitute the ,
over-, , , intellectual for wholesome tissue diet from . actual Like decay alcohol , but , it it may cannot presei energ _^ ve ize their into
useful life . It infuses a false spirit ; and hence we have mock and heroics mistaken , unstable self- fitful estimates efforts unreal at exertion views of , life misap and plied sad failures talents ,
unhap Intoxicating to realize piness hopes owes Heading built its ! existence on Drink un , tenable deprives to the foundations delusions us of , good . induced Alas servants , wh a y t
good tradespeople , and good labourers ; and Sensation Tales add , their martyrs to the fast-increasing band .
But neither bodily nor mental intoxication is confined to the humblest classes of society . The . vice in both forms is almost in
omnipresent . In the latter , its development may be traced
106 Intoxicating Beading.
106 INTOXICATING BEADING .
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/34/
-