However, I am not so much interested in drunken- with some physical unsoundness who cannot take regard to eating. I know a man, a fine specimen phys- Here the balance is struck in favor of poverty as normal constitution. That there are abnormal people If, in the confusion of opinion, which prevails concern- (Harvard), says: that there are people with peculiar idiosyncrasies in caused by drink rather than of crime. Which is right? that is no reason why everybody else should abstain fermented beverages, is not harmful to persons of not the cause of all the crime in the world." the temperate use of food and drink, including light ically as well as mentally, who cannot eat egg without ness or gluttony. I am speaking of the temperate use who cannot use alcohol, is not denied any more than In the introduction to the summary of the investiga- Continually. No Cause for Alarm. Conditions are Improving from it. tions of the Committee of Fifty; recently published, going into convulsions. That is no reason why I should Prof. Francis G. Peabody, of Cambridge, Mass. alcohol in moderate quantities without evil effects. But not eat eggs. There are also unfortunates burdened of alcoholic drink as well as of food. And I repeat,