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To cure a drunkard, try to arouse within him some desire stronger
than his desire to drink. Any boy will stop smoking to play
football or to excel in any sort of athletics. You reach his
vanity. What preaching could produce the same effect?
If you feel that you must use argument, try such arguments as
will appeal to the man himself, not such as seem sound to you in
your fine state of virtue.
The American drunkard is usually manufactured by the vile
American habit of drinking pure whiskey or cocktails. No other
race, except among the most degraded classes, absorbs crude
spirits as stupidly as this race. ----
Suppose you have a young friend whose tendency to drink
"straight" whiskey makes you nervous. You see what it is leading
to. Instead of trying to make a teetotaler of him, try to
transform him into a sensible drinker. ----
When your friend orders his whiskey, start off as follows:
Tell him you take it for granted that he knows all about the
mucous membrane. He will say that he does--for it is our
American mania to want to appear wise.
Casually state that of course he knows the covering of his
eyeball is identical in all important respects--especially as
regards sensitiveness--with the lining of his stomach; in fact,
of his whole interior from his mouth down.
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