The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-27
[From the Pioneer Press.1
IF He DRINKS, DON'T MARRY


HIM.
Will you grant space to one who has
never before asked the favor? / wish
to tell you Il little Of the life Of Mary,
the only daughter Of the richest man III
q small western city, which was then
my home.
AS young girl She gave promises of
great energy, sympathy, tact and moth
Ell wit; and time, travel and culture in
tensifed and blended her natural grac-
es till she became a woman Of rare fas-
cination. The old and young admired
and loved her. They could not help it.
She brought dainties to the homes
of the poor and sick, with a manner
that almost convinced them that they
were comforting fayors and not she.
TO the aged, too, she was so kind and
thoughtful.
One dear old lady, whom society had
forgotten because she could no longer
serve it, used to say: ''Mary always
sees me WhenI so to church, if no one
else does, and comes clear down the
aisle to speak to me.
Among the young men who came to
that city was Julian M, q lawyer, win
ming, brilliant conYerSatonalist and
a finer specimen of manly beauty in
form and features than is often seen.
but he loved the cup. When that city
learned Julian was teaching Mary to
love him, the very air demonstrated.
Some warned Mary Of her danger in
giving herself to one who drank, and
she decided to drop his acquaintance.
He promised to reform, and those good
men and women came to him with one
strong loving purpose to help save him.
They guarded and helped, and hoped,
and after many months oil apparent
success they married and begun their
new life in anew city. Here they were
welcomed in the first circles, and were
ornaments there. Temptations in the
social glass OVercanl0, and Mary's new
bright days were feckod with fear.
And just then there came to her with
such sweet hope The memory Of her
gIrlish triumphs and the love that al
most every one gave her then. 1t
must be she had some subtle magnet
ism, something native gave her so
much influence, and now she would
use it all-ail in binding Julian to hon
or and manly self-denial. She dressed
charmingly, she read to him, and sang,
and invited to their home such as
would stimulate his professional ambi-
ton. She failed, and then skilled her
self in hiding from others that he was
becoming q drunkard. Seasons of
weakness and depression came, for
which there is never a tonic but the
sympathy Of On9-and where was he?
The little one scarcely kept him an
hour from his usual haunts, and then
some kind neighbor would care for it,
While the mother searched for Julian.
At last hunger and want drove her
home, and there we leave her helpless
and deS0late. We can only say with
the good old pastor: II do wish for
Mary's sake that Julian was safe in
heaven"
AS warning to other Marys, please
print this scrap, found in an old paper.
1t is too good to be lost:
Never marry q man who drinks"
The writer who said that all in few
words. 1t is 8 motto that every girl
might have written upon the wall of
the peaceful little chamber where she
dreams her maiden dreams, and almost
makes up her mind to marry the Fdear
good fellow" whose only fault is TAX
ing g glass too much now and then;
and reform him after marriage It is
all the more Necessary that it should be
written there, because the men who
drink are by no means the worst men
in the world. We know that generous,
Warm-hearted men, men Of intellect
and men Of power, have found the
temptation too hard to withstand; and
that many a man otherwise contempt
BILE has never had a glass too much in
his life. If only all men who drink
were despicable in all other respects,
there would be little need Of the warn
ing: but as it is, let every girl remem-
Der it, let every mother whisper il,
Whatever his charms or his natural
virtues may be, no woman can be hap
Ply with drunkard If he drinks, don't
marry him.
Better weep over your dead hopes,
and go single to your grave, than suffer
what drunkard makes his wife suf-
fer.
Never marry a man who drinks.
HANNAH.
How SHE ESCAPED.