Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-14
BOYS WHO DRINK AND GIRLS THEY
MARRY

A mother who resides in small city at
the North writes to know if the Sun can't
saw something that will induce her daugh-
ter to quit keeping company with young
man who gets drunk every time he takes
the girl to a party. II mother cannot
say anything that will induce the daughter
to give up an escort who insults her, a
poor, weak newspaper cannot do any good.
The girl has got the fever too bad, if she
will not break off an engagement with
such young man. The girl should look
about her and make inquiries and see if she
can find a case in the experience of her
friends where such young man ever made
decent husband. She will never find
such a case. The mere fact of young
man taking girl to party or sleigh
ride, and getting drunk and humiliat.
ing her, and causing her to depend
upon others for her escort to her
home, is one evidence that he has no
respect for her, and she should break
off her engagement and cut him entirely.
1t she puts up with such insult now before
she is married, when she Is his wife he will
be liable to leave her to look out for her.
self, and he will get drunk from habit.
Twenty years ago there were hundreds of
young fellows in this State who thought it
was smart to take respectable girls to
dances and get drunk, and let the girls ride
home with somebody who kept sober. The
girls would be vexed at the time, but as
the boys were rich, and went in good so.
ciety, the girls got to looking upon the
sprees as good jokes, and they would laugh
about it. We know some OF those girls to-
day who are earning living for several
little children by hard work, while the
smart fellows that got drunk have filled
drunkards graves, or have left their wives
and are wanderers on the face of the earth.
If young man loves girl as he should
love her to marry her, look of disappro-
baton from her at any act of his will be
enough to break him of any habit that
he has that she does not like. If the
words ''Please don't drink, Charley,
from the lips of Charley's girl, is not
enough to spoil his appetite for benzine,
Farewell, Charley, forever" should be
the next and last remark she should ever
make to him. Marrying man to reform
him has never been successful enterprise
on the part of women. Girls are worth too
much, unmarried, to sacrifice their lives to
beat sense into the head of any man on
Gods foot.stool. Too many girls take the
chances of marrying young man who has
an uncomfortable appetite for liquor, think
ing that the surroundings of home will
wean him. Such man does not wean as
easy as calf. He will go home only to
sober up, and then not till the other
places are closed. Five years of such a
married life will make middle aged
woman out of the handsomest, sweetest
dispositioned girl that a mother was
ever proud of. A girl will marry such
man hoping that next year ne will be
better, but next year he will be worse.
The nose will begin to get red, the eyes
bleared, the clothes carelessly worn, and
the wife who would have been such proud
and happy mother, with husband that
had sense, becomes ashamed to look at
herself in the glass, and had almost rather
have a fit of sickness than be visited by
any of her friends, for fear her husband
will give them all away. Whisky may be
all right in its place, and we hope it is,
but the place for it is not in the stomach
of young man who contemplates matri-
mony, and the girl who takes such man
for life, for fear the young men will all be
gone, makes foolishness of herself, and
will regret as long as she lives. There are
sure to be sober boys enough for all the
girls, and there is no need of marrying
drunkard, and the girl who does SO, against
the advice of her mother, will deserve all
the unhappiness she marries. u eck's Sun.