Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-06-05
SOME SOUND ADVICE FoR THE GIRLS,
DON'T MARRY MEN TO REFORM THEN.
Peck's sun

.Peck's SUM-
A mother residing in small city at
the North writes 10 know if the Sun
can't say something that viii induce her
daughter to quit keeping company with
a young man who gets drunk every time
he takes the girl TO party. If the
mother cannot say anything to induce
the daughter to give up an escort who
insults her, poor weak newspaper can
no; DO any good. The girl has got the
fever too bad, if she Will not break off
an engagement with such young man.
The gil should look about her and make
inquiries and see if she could find case
where such q young man had made de-
cent husband. She never will find such
= case.
\ young man may SOW wild oats, andge
/, up his nose. and be as full as tick
at times. and reform, and become a
square. useful citizen and a good hus-
band, but he viii never have spree in
the presence o: the girl he loves. The
mere fact of d young man taking girl
70 party. or sleigh ride, and getting
drunk, and humiliating her, and causing
her to depend upon Others for escort to
her home, is one evidence that he has no
respect for her, and she should break off
her engagement and cut him ntirely. If
she put up with insult now, before she IS
his wife he Will be liable to leave her to
look out for herself, and he will get
drunk from habit.
If young man loves a girl as he
should love her to marry her, look Of
disapprobatiOn from her at any act Of his,
VIII be enough to break him OF any hab-
it that he has that she does not like. If
the words please don't drink, Charley,
from the lips Of Charley's girl are not
enough to spoil his appetite for benzine,
Farewell, Charley, forever" should be
the next and last remark she should 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 fOotstOol.
Too many girls take the chances of
marrying young man who has an I'M
comfortable appetite for liquor, thinking
that the surroundings of home will
wean him. Such man does not wean
as easy as a calf. He will 90 home to
sober up and not till the other places
close. Five years of such married life
viii make a middle aged woman Of the
handsomest, neutrality-suspicious. girl
that mother was ever proud of. A girl
viii marry such man, hoping that next
year he will be better, but next year he
Will be worse. The nose will begin to
get red, the eyes cleared, the clothes care.
lessly worn, and the wife who would have
teen such proud and happy mother, with
a husband that had sense, becomes asham-
ed to look at herself in the glass, and
had almost rather have fit of sickness
than to be visited by her friends, for fear
her husband will give them all away.
Whiskey may be all right in its place
but that is not in the stomach of a young
mar who eontemplates matrimony, and
a girl who takes such man for life will
regret it as long as she lives. There are
sure to be sober boys enough for all
the girls, and there is no need of marry
ing drunkard, and the girl that does so,
against the advice of her mother, will
deserve all the unhappiness she mar
ries.
mo WONDER said the doctor, "the
child is sick all the time. 1t has both |