Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-20
What q Picture Did.

The heading Of The Refoim-an illustrated
tract paper presented 10y Mr.. T.. Remington,
Of lion, New York, TO the Nomen's Ma
tional Temperance Union, and published
monthly by them-is composed Of three pic
lures. The first represents drunkard stag
gering home to his family. In his hand he
holds bottle his wife, with her babe in
her arms aud her little boy clinging to her
dress, is shrinking from him. Terror and
fear are depicted upon the countenances of
the three.
The second picture represents the same
man, standing at table, woman holding
out pen to him with one hand, and with
the other paper, upon which are seen the
words, " Temperance Pledge
In the third picture we see the same man,
well clothed, walking erect, with cane in
his hand and leading little boy up a flight
Of steps TO a nice house, in the door of which
stands the wife, with beaming smile upon
her face, and hardly able TO hold the babe,
who is oyerjoyed at seeing the father.
A bundle Of these papers was sent 70 one
Of the ladies Of Cincinnati, who distributed
them in the market, at the hospital and Jail.
Two months afterward she was stopped
on the street by German woman, who told
her the following story
You shoost stop Won minute vile | tells
YOU yot is in mine heart. You come Won
day to mine stall in de market, you gives
mine old man a paper, and you gives me a
paper.
" Ven l goes to mine home, mine children
dey cries for dere dinner. | says, You
shoost keep still, and will gives you Won
paper womans gives me in de market SO
dcy spreads de paper out upon de floor, and
dey kicks up dere heels, and dey looks hard
at the pictures Vile | gets mine dinner
dey yisper. Mine leetle poy he says Dat
is pap init de pottle dat leetle poy what
hides hind his mudder's dress is me, ven I'm
skeered at pappy, and de paby is Helwig
cause dat is shoost de way he hides hind
mudder's ear when pappy's drunk Den
dey say Mudder, vot dat woman do init de
table 2 says, DE temperance woman
wants De man TO sign de pledge, and say he
drinks no more beer nor wiskey; den his
wife aud children be no more feared of him.
" Dey look hard at de picter, den dey Wis
pers and dey say, Mudder, will pappy look
nice ike de udder picter, would he sign de
pledge 2
d" And says, Yes, chldens, your fadder
would look shoost ike dat if he 60 no more
to saloons
dinner. lie loves his childen ven he be
sober. My childen dey see be no drunk, so
dey runs 10 him nit de paper, and dey say,
Iappy, dat is you NIT de pottle, and dat
woman is mudder and de paby vot hides
hind his mudder's ear is Ielwig. Pappy,
Won't you 60 to de temperance voman's init
de table, and sign the pledge, and den you
will look shoost like dat nice man init de
cane, and Helwig he will look shoost like
dis paby vot tries to jump out Of his mud
der's arms, he is so glad to see his pappy 2
Mine old man he gets so mad, and he says,
| eats no dinner, | hates de temperance, |
hates de temperance and mine childen dey
cry, dey be 90 scared. Mine old man he
slams de door, and he goes off. He comes
home TO supper, and he says de first ting, |
hates de temperance, hates de temperance,
and he no speaks TO de childen, and dey be
so skeered.
after supper, mine old man he makes
de childen 90 to ped, and he put his feet on
de stove, and he smokes, and he scolds, and
he gets so mad he no goes to de saloon, Ike
he always does all his life NIT me,
"Nen it vas ped time, mine old man he
| lay down his pipe, and he says, Old woman,
/ Use no been good to you | gets drunk no
more; | goes no more to saloons mine heart
is sick nit vat mine childen say. | loves
mine wife, loves mine childen ven gets
no drunk Den puts mine apron to mine
/ eyes, and cries, and mine old man he cries,
Den We stand py de childen's ped, and mine
old man he kiss me, and he kiss de childen,
and he says, Mine heart is so sick all de
/ day nit vat de childen says to me-
e | tells you | loves dat little paper, mine
heart is so glad dat you gives it to me.
folds it up shoost so nice, and | puts it init
handkerchief around it, and keeps it in
mine under drawer in mine bureau NIT mine
childen's tings what died ~. Y. Wines