Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-03
Atouf Boys who Drink ana the Gris they
Marry.
Peck's Sun.

A mother who resides in 4 small
city in the North writes to know i
the editor of this paper can't say
| something that will induce hel
daughter to quit keeping company
with a young man who gets drunk
| every time he takes the girls to q
party. Ii a mother cannot say any
thing that will induce her daughter
to give up an escort who insults her,
Il poor, weak newspaper cannot do
any good. The girl has got the
| fever too bad, Ii she will not break
off an engagement with such a
young man. The girl should look
| about her and make inquiries and
see if she can find case in the ex-
perience of her friends where such
young man ever made a decent
husband. She will not find such a
case. The mere fact OF young
man taking a girl to a party or
sleigh ride and getting drunk and
humiliating her, and causing her
to depend upon Others for her escort
home, is one evidence that he has
no respect for her, and she should
break off her engagement and cut
him entirely. If she puts up with
such insults now before she is mar
ried, when she is his wife he is
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 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 society, the girls
got to looking upon the sprees as
good jokes, ard they would laugh
about it. We know some of those
girls to-day who are earning IA living
for several little children 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,
a look OF disapprobation from her,
of any act of his will be enough to
break him of any habit that he has
that she does not like. Ii the
words: "PIease don't drink, Char
ley," from the lips of Charley's
girl, are not enough to spoil his APP
petite for benzine, Farewell, Char
lie, forever" should be the next and
last remark she should ever make
to him. Marrying man to reform
him has never been successful en-
terprise on the part of a woman.
Girls are worth too much unmar-
ried 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 uncOntrOll-
able appetite for liquor, thinking |
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 Il married life |
will make a middle-aged woman
out of the handsomest, sweetest
dispositioned girl that a mother
was ever proud OF. A girl will
marry such a man hoping that next
year he will do better, but the next
year he will be woree. The nose
will get red, the eyes bleared, the
clothes carelessly worn, and the
wife who would have been such a
proud mother, with husband that
had sense, becomes ashamed to
look at herself in the glass, and
had almost rather have a tit of sick
ness than be visited by any of her
for fear her hasbaud will
give them all away.
Whiskey may be right in its place,
and we hope it is, but the place for
it is not in the stomach of young
man contemplating matrimOny,
and the girl who takes such a man
'or fear the young men will all be
gone, makes a fool of herself, and
will regret it as long as she lives.
There are sure to be sober boys
enough for all the girls, and there
S no need of marrying a drunkard,
ind the girl who does SO, against
he advice of her mother, will de-
ierve the unhappiness she mar
les.