The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-03-14
What Carries Men into Drinking
Houses?
BY MRS. WILLIAMS.

"a committee in England has lately
reported on the woman question, saying
that women are getting worse every year,
and TINT men go TO public houses more to
get rid of their wives than from any 9TH
or cause. This is, indeed, terrible. But
it is much the same in all countries"
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Womed are getting worse, are they? and
men are getting better, | suppose! II they
are becoming less wicked, | am glad TO
hear it, and my preaching has not been in
vain But l want proof, both Of mans
increasing goodness and womaHs advance
ing wckedness.
When take up a newspaper, see re-
corded there many crimes committed by
m ~, but very few committed by women.
Women generally are not bad; on the con-
trary, nearly all the goodness in this
wicked world is possessed by women. 1t
is men who arc Satan's prime ministers,
not women; the black sheep of family
are nearly always male members. w.
men stand on the topmost round Of the
ladder of goodness, while men are oil be-
low, scarcely ever thinking Of oil NIB ing
up to the peers of women.
Now, what takes men into public houses
at night? Oh, those dreadful women at
home drive them there; the poor, i'll used
creatures are so fearfully treated by the
queens of home that they fly to the taverus
for soace. Dear old Bacchus is their
comforter and friend.
Is it not wonderful that men should try
to make anybody in their senses believe
that they are driven into taverns, at night
BY their unhappiness at home? Oh what
absured nonsense; who believes it
There are few men who do find their
chains of matrimony heavy and calling,
and they cannot resist the temptation of
the tavern s open door. II is so much
pleasure to gnzzlo brandy there, than to
drink tea at home; who cares for the soup
that cheer but not inebriates," when they
can get hold Oft tumbler that both cheer s
and inebriaes? 1t is dali work sitting
quietly at home with only wife; there
arc cards and company at drinking
saloon; there is light and merriment, ard
oysters, and beef steak, and punch, and
wine, and brandy, anything else the gen.
tleman fancies.
| He enjoys this, so he goes when he can
getit no woman's disagreeabe ways drove
him into the place. My sisters, don't you
believe one word Of it you are ten times
more agreeable than those who are calling
you disagreeable; and know, oil ye inno-
cent and unoffending women, that men 60
to the taverns simply because they wish
to; you have nothing to blame yoursalve s
for.
| What carries single men there? They
are not dsiven into it too. Why, you can
not keep single man at home Of on even.
ing. There is pleasant family circle,
. gentle mamma, lively musical sisters,
and papa sound sleep on the sofa. Does
Robert, Henry and John and Thomas stay
at home to be sung to and entertained by
Julia and Lucy? Certainly not; they have
engagements" which are pretty sure to
carry them into drinking places before
they get home. If they are able to walk
up stairs without having to catch hold of
the banisters it lisa wonder.
No. no, my lords Of creation, do not put
your short comings on us; blame your.
selves for being what you are; and If you
want to find home agreeable, stay there,
and try to make it so. II you would
throw into home all the money you spend
in eating and drinking and smoking in
taverns, and throw yourself in along with
IL you would not have to complain Of the
disagreeablsness of home, and the woman
who presides over il,