1930 The Saloon in the Home

A LETTER FROM JOHN CADBURY, ESQ. i839

result of my own six years' experience is, that total

abstinence from all intoxicating drinks, has conferred

real and substantial benefits on my health, mentally

and physically.

"Before adopting this plan, I seriously believed that my con–

stitution required the stimulus to assist in supporting me. I was

wrong. Instead of suffering frequently from languor, irrita–

bility, and at times highly susceptible nervous feelings with

comparatively little relish for food, particularly at breakfast, I

can now gratefully, and I desire humbly, to acknowledge that

all these unpleasant sensations have, in a great degree, sub–

sided. My health, which at the time referred to, was very bad,

has since been uniformly good, even robust. Languor, from

which I suffered greatly, is unknown to me-and as to exertion,

I remember no period of my life when I could undergo so much

with so little fatigue.

"I have for more than two years expelled every description

of intoxicating drink from my house (except it may be a little

labelled poison in the medicine chest).

"My three children have all been nursed by their mother on

this principle, and that to their evident advantage; nor can I

withhold the pleasing intelligence that my valued parents, each

in their seventy-first year, have also, for many years, abstained

from all intoxicating drinks, to the perceptible benefit of their

health."

The Side Car

One part Cointreau,

One part Brandy,

One part Lemon juice.

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