The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
The Boy Who Drinks.
lErom the Milwaukee sun !


A mother residing in a small city a
the North writes to know if the Sto
can't say something that will induce
her daughter to quit keeping com
pany with a young man who gets
drunk every time he takes the girl tt
a party. fla mother cannot say any
thing that will induce the daughter
to give up, an escort who insults her
a poor, weak newspaper cannot dc
any good.
The girl has got the fever too bad
| if she will not break off an engage.
ment with such a yound man. The
girl should look out about her and
make inquiries and see if she can find
case in the experience of her friends
where such a young man ever made a
decent husband. She will never find
such case. A young man may SOW
wild oats, and get it up his nose, and
be full as tick al times, and reform,
and become square, useful citizen
and a good husband, but he will
never have spree in the presence OF
the girl he loves.
The mere fact of a young man taxi
ing girl to a party, or a sleigh ride,
and getting drunk, and humilating
her, and causing her to depend upon
others for escort to her home, is one
evidence that he has no respect tor
her, and she should break eff her en-
gagement and cut him entirely.
If 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 herself, 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 respect
able girls to dances and get drunk,
and let the girls ride home with some
body who kept sober. The girls
would be VeXed at the time, but as
the boys were rich, and went in good
society, the girls got to looking on
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 chill
dren by hard work, while the smart
fellows that got drunk have filled
drunkard's graves, or have left their
wives and are wanderers on the face
of the earth. If a young man loves a
girl as he should love her to marry
her, look of disappointment 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 men to reform them 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 mar
rying young man who has an un-
controllahleappetite for liquor, think.
ing that the surroundings of home
will wean him. Such man does not
Wean as easily as calf. He will go
home only to sober up, and then not
till the other places are closed. Five
years of such married life will make
a middle-aged woman of the hand
soonest, neutrality-suspicious. girl
that a mother was ever proud of. A
girl will marry such man hoping
that next yea he will be better but
next year he will be worse.
The nose viii Negin to get red, the
eyes bIeared. clothes carelessly
worn, and tn, fe who would have
been such proud and happy mother,
with husband that had sense, be.
comes ashamed to look at herself in
the glass, and had almost rather have
a Fl of sickness tlian to be visited by
any Of her friends, for fear her hus.
band may give them away. Whiskey
may be all right in its place, and we
hope it is, but the place for it is not
in the stomach of a young man who
cOntemplates matrimony, and the
girl who takes such a man for life,
for fear the young men will all be
gone, makes foolishness of herself,
and will regret it az long as she lives.
There are sure to be sober boys enough
for all the girls, and there is no need
of marrying a drunkard, and the girl
who does so, will deserve all the un-
happiness she marries.