Making Alcohol.~--It may be that some of our young readers would like to find out for themselves that alcohol is really made by fermentation.

This may be done by an easy experiment.

You know that yeast will cause bread to "rise" or ferment.

As we have elsewhere learned, a little alcohol is formed in the fermentation of bread, but is driven off by the heat of the oven in baking, so that we do not take any of it into our stomachs when we eat the bread.

If we place a little baker's yeast in sweetened water, it will cause it to ferment and produce alcohol.