8. In China, it is fashionable for rich ladies to have small feet, and they tie them up in cloths so that they cannot grow.  The foot is squeezed out of shape.  Here is a picture of a foot which has been treated in this way.  It does not look much like a human foot, does it?  A woman who has such feet finds it so difficult to walk that she has to be carried about much of the time.  Do you not think it is very wrong and foolish to treat the feet so badly?  You will say, “Yes;” but the Chinese woman thinks it is a great deal worse to lace the clothing tight about the body so as to make the waist small.

[Illustration:  FOOT OF CHINESE WOMAN.]

9.  Effects of Alcohol upon the Muscles.—­When an intemperate man takes a glass of strong drink, it makes him feel strong; but when he tries to lift, or to do any kind of hard work, he cannot lift so much nor work so hard as he could have done without the liquor.  This is because alcohol poisons the muscles and makes them weak.

10.  Effects of Drunkenness.—­When a man has become addicted to strong drink, his muscles become partly paralyzed, so that he cannot walk as steadily or speak as readily or as clearly as before.  His fingers are clumsy, and his movements uncertain.  If he is an artist or a jeweller, he cannot do as fine work as when he is sober.  When a man gets very drunk, he is for a time completely paralyzed, so that he cannot walk or move, and seems almost like a dead man.

11. If you had a good horse that had carried you a long way in a carriage, and you wanted to travel farther, what would you do if the horse were so tired that he kept stopping in the road?  Would you let him rest and give him some water to drink and some nice hay and oats to eat, or would you strike him hard with a whip to make him go faster?  If you should whip him he would act as though he were not tired at all, but do you think the whip would make him strong, as rest and hay and oats would?

12. When a tired man takes alcohol, it acts like a whip; it makes every part of the body work faster and harder than it ought to work, and thus wastes the man’s strength and makes him weaker, although for a little while his nerves are made stupid, so that he does not know that he is tired and ought to rest.

13. When you grow up to be men and women you will want to have strong muscles.  So you must be careful not to give alcohol a chance to injure them.  If you never taste it in any form you will be sure to suffer no harm from it.

14.  Effects of Tobacco on the Muscles.—­Boys who smoke cigars or cigarettes, or who chew tobacco, are not likely to grow up to be strong and healthy men.  They do not have plump and rosy cheeks and strong muscles like other boys.

15. The evil effect of tobacco upon boys is now so well known that in many countries and in some states of this country laws have been made which do not allow alcohol or tobacco to be sold or given to boys.  In Switzerland, if a boy is found smoking upon the streets, he is arrested just as though he had been caught stealing.  And is not this really what a boy does when he smokes?  He robs his constitution of its vigor, and allows tobacco to steal away from him the strength he will need when he becomes a man.