, the sign and the lower horizontal line of
Fig. 62, omitting, for the present, the lettering.] This, let us
suppose, is the front of the saloon which invites him to enter its
doors. [Draw very lightly the lines indicated by the dotted lines A.]
Prominently displayed are the evidences that intoxicating liquors are
sold there. [Draw with red chalk the words, "Dealers in Wine, Porter,
Whiskeys, Bourbon, Etc.," completing Fig. 62. There is no more drawing
to do; the remaining step is taken by the aid of the penknife.] Here
we have the front of the saloon.

[Illustration: Fig. 62]

"There is one thing about the drink habit that we can easily
understand, and there is one thing about it that I suppose we shall
never understand. We can realize why the man who is bound by this
awful curse does not break his bonds; how willingly would he do it
_if he believed he could_. But, as we have observed, it is a
mystery why a boy or a young man, with numberless powerful and
convincing proofs before him, will deliberately enter the doorway of a
saloon. But once within, all may seem bright and happy and
joyous--perhaps the victim is led to believe that father and mother
are misinformed, since there seems to be nothing but gaiety there. But
he finds, all too soon, that the liquor which seemed at first to make
little difference in his life, is becoming his master, and never does
he realize it so well as when he tries to free himself. Why and how
has the saloon changed his life? The story is a simple one, and he
should have seen the reason before he entered, because there it is,
written plainly upon the outside of the place which has meant his
ruin.

[With your penknife cut the paper along the lines A. Do _not_ cut
on the lines B. Fold back the two "doors," at B, as if they were
hinged. It may be necessary to hold them back with thumb tacks or
pins. To heighten the effect it is well to have placed a blackened
sheet of paper beneath the top sheet, so as to produce the effect
illustrated. Add "And Poison Kills!" This completes Fig. 63.]

[Illustration: Fig. 63]

"The saloon may try to hide its real self, but every time it opens its
doors to allow one of its victims to come out, it proclaims to the
world that it traffics in _poison_--poison fatal to happiness,
fatal to hope, fatal to health, fatal to all the higher and nobler
aspirations of life. Everywhere is this truth proclaimed. From the
insane asylums come the testimony. The jails cr