avoid it, but they are sinners above all others. It seems to be an indispensable part of orthodox religion to attend church sociables and receptions in the evening and supplement a 6 o'clock dinner with fruit cake, pie, oyster soup and coffee, so that the dreams after retiring will rival all the pictures of rarebit experiences which fill some of the newspapers. (July, 1906.) That Pseudo-Scientific Temperance Instruction. The talk of people not wanting to "drink alcohol" calls to mind the pseudo-"scientific temperance instruc- tion" in our public schools, where it is taught, among other "legalized lies," that because a piece of dead meat dropped into absolute alcohol shrivels up and is discolored, therefore the human stomach is similarly |j affected by the use of alcoholic drink. Of course the difference between live tissue and dead meat, between a drink containing, among other constituents, 3^2 per cent of alcohol, on the one hand, and absolute alcohol, on the other hand, is shrewdly slurred over or sup- pressed. And by such wilful misrepresentation and deceit is the youthful mind demoralized. This matter of the training of the youthful mind to intemperance, deceit, sneakiness and contempt for authority and science, which is brought about by this mis-called "scientific temperance instruction," is in a fair way of receiving an airing. Chicago, less hampered by tradition than many older places, bids fair to be the