But you know that the alcohol is made in the fruit-juice itself by the change of the sugar into alcohol and the gas.
It is the nature of alcohol to make the person who takes a little of it, in wine, or any other drink, want more and more alcohol. When one goes on, thus taking more and more of the drinks that contain alcohol, he is called a drunkard.
In this way wine has made many drunkards. Alcohol hurts both the body and mind. It changes the person who drinks it. It will make a good and kind person cruel and bad; and will make a bad person worse.
Every one who takes wine does not become a drunkard, but you are not sure that you will not, if you drink it.
You should not drink wine, because there is alcohol in it.
Cider is made from apples. In a few hours after the juice is pressed out of the apples, if it is left open to the air the sugar begins to change.
Like the sugar in the grape, it changes into alcohol and bubbles of gas.
At first, there is but little alcohol in cider, but a little of this poison is dangerous.
More alcohol is all the time forming until in ten cups of cider there may be one cup of alcohol. Cider often makes its drinkers ill-tempered and cross.
Cider and wine will turn into vinegar if left in a warm place long enough.
1. What two things are in all fruit-juices?
2. How can we tell the juice of grapes from that of plums?
3. How can we tell the juice of apples from that of cherries?
5. What happens after the grape-juice has stood a short time?
6. Why would the changed grape-juice not be good to use in making jelly?
7. Into what is the sugar in the juice changed?
12. What does alcohol do to those who drink it?
14. When is grape-juice not a safe drink?
16. What is this changed grape-juice called?
19. What do people sometimes think of home-made wines?
20. How can alcohol be there when none has been put into it?
21. What does alcohol make the person who takes it want?
26. Are you sure you will not become a drunkard if you drink wine?
[Footnote A: This gas is called car bon´ic acid gas.]
[Illustration: A]LCOHOL is often made from grains as well as from fruit. The grain has starch instead of sugar.
If the starch in your mother's starch-box at home should be changed into sugar, you would think it a very strange thing.
