The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-05-23
The Boy who Drinks.

Tho Boy Who Drinks.
A mother residing in a small city
at the north writes to know if the
San can't say something that will
Induce her daughter to quit keeping
company with q young man who
gets drunk every time he takes the
girl to q party. Ifs mother cannot
say anything that win induce the
daughter to give up an escort who
insults her, q poor weak newspaper
cannot do any good.
The girl has got the fever too bad,
ifshe viii not break off an engage
ment with such a young man. The
Igirl should look about her, and
make inquiries, and see if she can
find case in the experience of her
friends where such q man ever made
a decent husband. She will never
find such a case. A young man
may SOW wild oats and get it up
his nose, and be as full as a tick at
times, and reform, and become a
square, useful citizen, and a good
husband, but he will never get on a
spree in the presence of the girl he
loves.
The mere fact of a young man
taking girl to a party or sleigh
ride, and getting drunk and humili-
ating her, and causing her to depend
on others for escert 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 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 hun
dreds of young fellows in this State
who thought it was smart to take re-
spectacle girls to dances and get
drunk, and let the girls ride home
with somebody that 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
children by hard work, while the
smart fellows who 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 girl as he should to marry
her, a look of disapprobation 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 ben
zine, Farewell, Charley, forever"
should be the last remark she should
ever make to him.
Marrying men to reform them has
never been q asuccessful enterprise on
the part of women. Girls are worth
too much unmarried to sacrifice
their lives to beat sense into the
head ofany man on Gods footstool.
Too many girls take the chances of
marrying young man who has an
uncomfortable appetite for liquor
thinking that the surroundings Of
home will wean him. Such man
does not wean as easily as cali.
He will go home only to sober up.
and then only when the other places
are closed. Five years of such a
married life will make a middle-aged
woman of the sweetest dispositioned
girl that mother was ever proud of.
A girl will marry such a 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 bleared, the clothes carelessly
worn, and the wife who would have
been such happy wife and mother,
with husband that had sense, be-
comes ashamed to look at herself in
the glass, and had almost rather
have a fit of sickness than to be Wis
tied by any of her friends, for fear
her husband may give them away.
Whisky may be al. 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
be all gone, makes a fool of herself,
and she 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 marrying a
-drunkard, and the girl who does so
against the advice of her mother,
will deserve all the unhappiness she
marries. II Peeks Sun.