St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-06-10
Temperance.
A Word 10 Our Girls.


ton from a young gentleman or give
him the least encouragement If you
know that Intoxicating liquors ever
sully his lips. If you have, unfortu-
natelv. already become attached to
such a one if your hearts best affec
tions are given to him, and life without
his presence seems uncomfortable ifI
Won deem him all that Is noble and
good, and find out even at the eleventh
hour that he is a devotee of Bacchus,
leave him even then, rather than mar
~ one who will bring you nothing but
disgrace, poverty, misery and heart
aches untold.
You will suffer in doing this; life
will at first seem To hold nothing worth
having: but You will live it down, and
the day will come ere long when you
will thank God that you had the cour-
age and strength of mind to make the
sacrifice.
Don't marry man hoping to reform
him. If you do, your hopes will he
blasted as ruthlessly as are those of the
children who gleefully speed away to
reach the end of the rainbow, in order
to find the buried pot of gold. Like
theirs will your mcrrily-begun journey
end in WEAKNESS and tears.
But you say, "he only drinks 0c-
casionally-on the Fourth of July,
election. Christmas, New Years, and
now and then with an old friend. Sure
" YOU would not have me give him up
for this p
Yes. even for this. The man who
will take one glass is not safe, nor to bc
/ trusted. Go to him; tell him kindly
and pleasantly, but firmly, how sorry
YOU are that he is becoming slave to
| the cup ask him, for your sake, for
the sake of his own manlineSs and
sclf-rcspect, to never again let one
drop of liquor pass his lips. If he Is
worthy of IA woman's love, he will try
to conquer his appetite. Give him Il
| fair trial take time to see how he
carries himself; allow years to give
strength to his good resolution before
Won dare to think of him as other than
Il friend.
If Won do allow yourself to be de
ceivcd by the spcciOus reasoning that
he only INDUCES once i'll while, You
will dwell on the edge of a smothcrcd
volcano that is sure to burst forth, and
as time rolls on the eruptions Will be
more frequent and fierce, till finally
you will find yourself crushed beneath
the tlood-tidc of incompetence and all
its attendant horrors.
Go to the millions of drunkards
wives, whose attcnuatcd frames, hollow
ewes. and looks of anxious dread, tell
only too plainly that poverty and
hcart-pain have done their appointed
work ask them if they would advise
Won to take as your life companion, us
the father of your children, one whose
feet are singled in the rut of sure de
Struction ? Their answer will he, 'No,
ten thousand times no. Far better
would You hang yourself higher than
+. Hannah or seek the lower depths of the
ocean for your resting place, than dc
this thing"
Girls. don't drink yourselves. blusl
that | am obliged to say 1t. But, alas
the usc of intoNicantS Is not entirely
confined to the StcInCr sex, and the
number of exceptions Is yearly lncrcas-
ing. If YOU have ever taken the VINE
glass. OF used StimulantS because you
or your physician considered then
necessary to yOur health, stop at once
You are on the brink of prccipice
save YOU. Your danger is not less he
cause you are Il woman. Let your eN-
ample show to all that ''total absti-
ncncen is your motto. BE quiet
unobtruSivc and lady-like about it
don't force your opinions mrcaSonablS
upon others, lest they consider you q
nuisance and ranter; but when the
time and occasion come when 1t Is nee
eSsary for You to declare yourself on
one side or the other, stand by YOU
principles, don't finch. Do it modest
", hut let all see that your sympathic'
are on the side of temperance and re
form.
One thing more: Have nothing to d,
with man who is of doubtful morals
The licentiOus man should be scOrnet
and stunned even more than the in
temperate. COuntcnance not the Sc
Queer, the destroyer of homes, the cor
ruptcr of innocent hearts. He is more
to he feared than the pestilence tina
walkcth mt MONDAY. He is the devil.
most efficient cmisSary. He wins more
subjects than all his other combine,
, agencies.
BE careful what You do. One falls
step, and all the waters of Jordon o
the sacred Gauges cannot wash yOl
white again. Many who look will
+ Scorn upon the incbriatc are dom!
much to undermine society by thci
/ dcrelictions in this respect. We ar
not circumSpcct enough. The more q
. "A rOu6 and gallant a man is known t.
be. the harder do we strive to win hi
, smiles Shame, shame to us that i
, should he so.
The women, the girls, have great i'll
, flucnce in these matters. And although
t | am far from allowing that women an
:. responsible for all the shortcomings q
+, the other sex, do say that they ca
do much to check the tirSt-mentione'
1 evil, and i'll the latter case they haV
1 things all in their own hands. Sisters
g will YOU do it? Can you sit idly 10y
f knowing that you have the power t
u work two such glorious reforms
: Let us join hand to hand and heaI
- 10 heart in this great work, chooSin
for our companions only the temporal
and VirtuOus. Let us strive to he pur
and noble, even as the Creator de
signed, and pray for the coming of tina
It happy day when our song of trump
: shall he, peace on earth, good wi
v toward men, Christian at Work.