s been poisoning every part it has
passed through since it entered the mouth.

Some of the alcohol does not get out of the lungs through the breath, but
goes with the blood back to the heart, and from the heart is sent through
the arteries to every part of the body. No part of the body wants it.

_The Skin_ drives some of it out, through its little pores, with the
perspiration.

_The Kidneys_, which lie in the back below the waist, on each side of the
spine, send off some of the poison.

Yet some of it gets into _the brain_, and there does very much mischief, of
which you will learn more by and by. You know, if the brain is hurt, the
mind cannot do its work of thinking properly; thus, alcohol does great
_harm to the mind_ through the brain.

_The muscles_ and _the bones_ are hurt by not being supplied with pure
blood; _the heart_ gets tired out with overwork, and _the lungs_ become
diseased through this same terrible alcohol.

Therefore, if you would be strong and healthy, have nothing to do with
alcoholic liquors; for

ALCOHOL POISONS
The stomach, The liver, The blood,
The heart, The lungs, The brain,
The bones, The muscles, The skin,
And every part of the body.

* * * * *

IN THE STOMACH.

Children who have learned the Lesson on Digestion, and know about the coats
of the stomach, about mastication and chyme-making, are easily made to
understand why anything which has alcohol in it is unfit to go into the
stomach.

If we touch a drop of alcohol to the eye, it will make it sore; so alcohol
in the stomach irritates its coats and makes them sore.

Alcohol poisons the gastric juice. If we get some of this juice from the
stomach of a calf which has just been killed, and mix alcohol with it, the
alcohol will separate the watery part from the _pepsin_ or white part. This
is what alcohol does in the stomach. It takes up water from the gastric
juice, which prevents the pepsin from mixing well with the food, and
hinders the change of the food into chyme, which cannot take place without
pepsin.

The children have already learned that alcohol keeps meat from decaying, or
going to pieces. We explain that food in the stomach must go to pieces to
prepare it to make blood; when mixed with alcohol, it is preserved, and the
gastric juice cannot melt or dissolve it. Thus the stomach is hindered from
doing its work until it gets rid of