From the Introductory Note: "These are complied from talks given during the school year of 1899-1900 in the Pond Street School (comprising the first five grades) of Bangor, Maine. The interest of the teachers and scholars in the lessons has lead to their publication in this form as an attempt at answering the question, how to teach temperance in the lower grades." These are delightful lesson plans to teach young children the importance of abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. It contains teaching stories, poems, songs, suggestions and sound knowledge of the physiological effects of these stimulants. It was written during the days of the Women's Christian Temperance Union by one of the Movement's champions.

From the Introduction: "This book has not been written in the library of the professional bookmaker, but has been worked out day by d schoolroom relating children's experiences to vital physiological truth. The author has been impelled by no slavish or perfunctory sense of responsibility to a law for compulsory temperance instruction, but has worked through the deeper and stronger faithfulness to the divine law which has decreed that we are our brother's keepers. I have seen over a period of years the working qualities of the plan of presentation contained in this little book. I have seen in the lives of the children the growth of respect for the sacredness of the house beautiful, and on the part of the teachers who have used the plan a profound faith in the value of temperance physiology in its best sense. "