ting
whatsoever.

I decided that what I might lose in the companionship and social end of
it I would gain in my own personal increase in horsepower; for I knew
that though drinking may have done me no harm, it certainly did me no
good, and that, if persisted in, it surely would do me harm in some way
or other.

Sizing it up, one side against the other, I conclude that it is better
for me not to drink. I find I have much more time that I can devote to
my business; that I think more clearly, feel better, do not make any
loose statements under the exhilaration of alcohol, and keep my mind
on my number constantly. The item of time is the surprising item. It is
astonishing how much time you have to do things in that formerly you
used to drink in, with the accompaniment of all the piffle that goes
with drinking! When you are drinking you are never too busy to take a
drink and never too busy not to stop. You are busy all the time--but
get nowhere. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Any man who has been accustomed to do the kind of drinking I did for
twenty years, who likes the sociability and the companionship of it,
will find that the sudden transition to a non-drinking life will leave
him with a pretty dull existence on his hands until he gets
reorganized. This is the depressing part of it. You have nowhere to go
and nothing to do. Still, though you may miss the fun of the evening,
you have all your drinking friends lashed to the mast in the morning.

_By the Same Author_

THE FUN OF GETTING THIN

Another delightful book by Mr. Blythe, in which he discusses surplus
avoirdupois. It tells fat people how to get thin, and thin people will
get fat laughing over its delicious humor.

Some extracts from the book

"A fat man is a joke; and a fat woman is two jokes--one on
herself and the other on her husband."

"Half the comedy in the world is predicated on the paunch."

"Fat, the doctors say, is fatal. I move to amend by striking
out the last two letters of the indictment. Fat is fat."

Attractively bound. Price, 35c

_For sale wherever books are sold or supplied by the publishers_

FORBES & COMPANY,
CHICAGO

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cutting It out, by Samuel G. Blythe

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUTTING IT OUT ***

***** This file should be named 28576.txt or 28576.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be