A DISTINGUISHED specialist in children's diseases has carefully noticed the difference between twelve families of drinkers and twelve families of temperate men during a period of twelve years, with the result that he found that the twelve drinking families produced in those years fifty-seven children, while the temperates were accountable for sixty-one. Of the drinkers, twenty-five children died in the first week of life, as against five on the other side. The latter deaths were from weakness, while the former were attributable to weakness, convulsive attacks, or edema of the brain and membranes. To this cheerful record is added five who were idiots; five so stunted in growth as to be really dwarfs; five, when older, became very epileptics; one, a boy, had grave chorea ending in idiocy; five more were diseased and deformed; and two of the epileptics became, by inheritance, drinkers. Ten only, therefore, of this fifty-seven showed normal disposition and development of mind and body during life. On the part of the temperates, as before stated, five died in the first week, of weakness; four, in later years of childhood, had curable nervous diseases; two only showed inherited nervous defects. Thus fifty were normal, in every way sound in body and mind.—Selected.