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Show CHRISTMAS TIME. Have you ever seen a drunkard's home at Christmas time? If you have you know that it is one of the saddest places in the world. And this is true whether it is the abode of wealth or poverty. pov-erty. In either case it is the culmination of the year's accumulation of sorrow, intensified by cor trast with the happiness in other places. Whether the potations of the drunkard are greater during the holidays, or his neglect of his family is more noticeable, he certainly receives a larger share of criticism at such times; and the, poorer he is, the more severe the censure. Many people who condone the habit of drinking drink-ing among the rich seem to think that poverty not only constitutes the chief cause for total abstinence, absti-nence, but they expect it to be the source of sufficient suf-ficient will power to enable a man to give up whisky. This is a great mistake. Strong drink makes many a man poor, but poverty does not make them stop drinking. It requires more than poverty to cure a man of the liquor addiction. Such an addiction means a diseased condition that requires re-quires medical treatment. An occasional man may be able to stop the actual practice of drinking drink-ing by means of a powerful will, but he cannot overcome his craving for liquor. The inebriate often makes greater efforts to let whiskey alone than those who condemn him would be capable of. He realizes his duties and responsibilities. re-sponsibilities. He wants to be a good husband and father. He wants to be a reptuable citizen. In his lucid moments he promises and protests. He means every word that he says. He has confidence con-fidence in himself. But he falters and fails. No matter what caused him to begin drinking, whether through sociability, or because he was sick, or as a stimulus for longer hours and more work, he began moderately. He Is no more to be blamed than the moderate drinker. They all commenced com-menced drinking In the same manner, and as lojig as they confined themselves to limited quantities no one complained. But alcohol is a slow poison, and some men are more susceptible to the effects of poison than others. Because of this difference, and not on account of any superiority of mind vr morals, one man becomes a drunkard, while another anoth-er remains a moderate drinker to the end of the chapter. It is easy to condemn; but condemnation does not eliminate poison. It does not cure the disease dis-ease caused by poison. It does not cure the disease dis-ease of Inebriety. Like all other maladies, inebriety in-ebriety can be reached by appropriate medicines. It can be cured by the Keeley Remedies. Thousands of homes will be bright with Christmas Christ-mas cheer because of those remedies- Christmas is a glad climax of a glorious victory in the home of a Keeley graduate. The year may have been filled with quite happiness or rich In success, but there has been no time when the difference between be-tween the old life of sorrow and privation and the new life of peace and plenty has been so strongly marked as at this time of holiday rejoicing. rejoic-ing. In the old days before rescue seemed possible, the holidays seemed set apart as seasons of the greatest unhappiness. Mothers who had struggled with poverty throughout the year felt an added sense of deprivation as they watched the growing necessities and the constantly narrowing resources, which usually reached the lowest ebb at Christmas time. Children who had suffered from want and privation through the entire year found an added capaoity for suffering in the knowledge of the happiness that was coming to other little ones. Even the poor inebriate who was the cause of all this suffering found his dulled sensibilities suddenly sud-denly awakened, and reached out in helpless misery mis-ery for something that should help him to conquer the tyrant. The prayers of his wife and the pleadings plead-ings of his children might go unanswered; they were not entirely unheeded. He realized his shortcomings and longed most earnestly for release from bondage. His promises I ,fl took on an added significance and represented a nl stronger determination to conquer. But a weak- Jfl ened will and a body that had become diseased through alcohol offered poor resistance to his crav- , ihgs. The time when the demands for a sober life ' ( ifl wore most urgent and the desire for freedom was ' strongest was always the time when temptations r' IH multiplied and defeat was most certain. .;!'' ffl Every drunkard's family knows the sad story. n ' ' I Its humiliations and hardships are burned into I 'I their very being. Blasted hopes and bitter dis- A I couragements were a large part of every year's Ji ': H record. The summing up process, striking a grim f H balance with misery usually took place when j H happy people were rounding out the year's pros- f ' H perity with holiday festivities. It at least meant f ? H the end' of another year of wretchedness, and jt H trusting ones hoped and prayed that the new year 'H might bring the blessing. ! But In every home whore inebriety reigned and I ! H ruined there was ignorance of true conditions. For j i H no man would willingly remain in slavery when a I ,i 'H chance of escape is offered; no woman would sub- !( ! H mit to a continuance of wretchedness and want if she was convinced that they might be overcome. ,H It is nearly twenty-seven years since Doctor ft j , ;H Keeley proclaimed that drunkenness and drug-us- f jjj ing could be cured by scientific treatment, and jf 1j! H more than three hundred and fifty thousand cured " I H men and women attest the truth of his assertion. i J S Ho helped men to help themselves. The inliuenoe W ,fl of his work will not stop with the men whose lives. f H it redeemed, but will continue in the improved con- 4 H ditlon of their descendants through the years to H THE KEELEY INSTITUTE OF UTAH. 1 II The only Keeley Institute In the State of Utah, . IH Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming. - For the Cure of Drunkenness, Opium, Cocaine and B All Drug Using. -VB Address all correspondence THE KEELEY IN- jS STITUTE, 334 W. So. Temple St., Salt Lake City. |