The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-12-08
For Tnk REconp.
USE 10 UR iNEL UkNoB.
ny Gus GLENN.


The ways of the world are q study. Should
we take the trouble to look about Us, We
would doubtless feel the injustice Of a great
many trials which come 70 certain class.
Let US take peep into this handsomely Eur.
nished hotel The landlord IL smiling and
pleasant; his family are richly dressed; his
table 10 bountifully spread. But what Ii the
price Of all thiss Come with me to yonder
house. cannot call IL home, for none Of
those comforts which constitute a home can
be found In that wietched abode. The pale
wife aud mother bends over her sewing by
the light of poor tallow dip. Every mo.
inent Is precious to her, for does not every
stitch mean bread for her starving little ones
Tue wolf is at the door, gaunt and grim, and
only her puny arm to keep him back. AS we
take glance backward, we see her o beau
teous bride. BY her side stands the man who
has solemnly vowed to love and cherish her
until death shall separate them He is hand
some, aud she trusts her pure young life in
his hands. And now you ask, where is he
to-day, that his wife, faded and worn, must
struggle for the common necessities of life.
half clothed and half feds Back again We
step, and look into the brilliantly lighted bar
room. No, oh, no | 1t cannot, cannot be the
same. That handsome, noble man of few
years back, and this loathsome, wretched one.
who is greediy watching to drain the poison
GUS Stops from the glass which the more
fashionable drunkard has left. Yes, it Is the
same--the man who had started with a bright
future before him blessed with loving wife
and a handsome home beloved by friends
and respected by all who knew him. Then
by his own hand, with the fatal glass therein,
he has chosen his lot Perhaps no did not
intend to fall 50 low. He has Thought. with
many another of to-day. one glass win hurt
no one" But il does not stop therefore
leads to more. He began perhaps with one |;
bat as the schooLboy starts his sled at the
top Of the snowy hill, slowly at first, then
faster and faster, until he lands at last a help
less wreck at every bottom. Some one will
say, He has made his bed, SO let him lie in
it, But alas others must share the terri
BILE woe with him. His children, poorly clad,
crouch in some corner; the joys of childhood
w No"tSN SuOM bhcy are Olu before their
time; aud the rumseller's children pass then,
by IN naughty scoru, richly clad In garments
purchased with the money that should have
gone to feed and clothe the wretched little
ones-the price of human suffering.
I, =, "s.va si.s owe, iss appeal 10 YOU
Make your homes sunny and pleasant Far
home be the osle .aA4-.i,as LET the uA,y.-.v-
chief attraction. Throw aside the covers
from your fine furniture. What II the boys
arenot as gentle as you would likel What
are your fine apartments to their danger in
seeking comfort and enjoyment In saloons
and barrooms Throw your projecting in
fiuence about them lead them to love the
pure and good fling out the grand old tenn
perance banner--let the gentle broezes lift it's
folds upon the balmy ais !; do all you can to
help the young men OF America to be nation,
honored for their purity and love of right.
Women of America, what viii you say when
God asks Of you what your influence has been
over the young men in this Christian land?