The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1883-06-14
SOME GOOD HORSE SENSE.
A Chapter That Every Young Cir
Should Read and So Should
the Bays,

A mother residing in a small city
at the north writes to know if tue
San cant say something that will in
duce her daughter to quit keeping
company with young man who gets
drunk every time lie takes the young
girl to a party. lfa mother cannot
say anything that will induce the
daughter to give up an escort who
insults her, o poor, weak newspaper
cannot do any good. The girl. has
got the fever too bad, if she will not
break of an engagement with such n
young man. The girl should look
about bsr and make inquiries and
SOC II she can find o case in tho oA-
perience OF her friends where such
young man ever made decent hus.
band. She will never fnd such n
case. A young man may SOW wild
oats, and get it up his nose, and be
full as n tick at times, and reform,
and become square, useful citizen
and a good husband, but lie will
never have spree in the presence
of the giil he loves. The mere fact
of young man taking young girl
to party, or sleigh ride, and get
ting drunk, and humiliating her, and
causing her to depend upon others
for escort to bor homo, is one ovi-
dence that he has no respect for her
aui she should break of her en- gage
ment aud cut him entirely. IL 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 hundreds Of young fellows in
this state who thought it was smart
to takp respectable girls to dances
and get drunk, and let the girls ride
home with somebody who kept sober
The giils would be vexed at the
time, but AZ tue boys were rich, aud
went in good society, the girls got
to looking npon 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, while tno
smart fellows that got drunk have
filed drunkards' graves or have lof,
their wives aud are wonderers on
tho face OF tho earth. If II young
man loves girl as he should low,
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. IL the words, "Please don I
drink, Charley from the lips oi
Charleys girl, is not enough to spoil
his appetite for benzene, Farewell
Charley, forever" should be the next
and last remark she should evel
make to him. Marrying men to re-
form them has never been success.
ful enterprise on the pait of women
Girls are worth too much, unmarried
to sacrifice their lives to beat sens,
into the head Of any man on God,
foot stool Too many girls take th'
chances OF marrying young man
who has an uncomfortable appetite
for liquor, thinking that the sur
roundings OF home Will wean him
Such man does not wean as eas,
as calf. lie will 60 homo only t
sober up, and then not till the otheI
places are closed. Five years 0
such q married life will make a mid
dle-aged woman OF the handsomest
} sweetest t-dispositioned girl that
mother was ever proud Of. A cir
; will marry such q man hoping tha
next year he will be better, but mex
year he will be worse. The nos
will begin to get red, the eyes blear
!, ed, the clothes carelessly worn, anC
| the wife who would have been sucl
proud and happy mother, with
husband that had sense, becomes
ashamed to look at herself in th
, glass, and had almost rather had
, fit Of sickness than to be visited b.
r any of her friends, for fear that he
; husband will give them all away
= Wbiskey may be all right in it
r place, and we hope it is,but the plac
3 for it is not in the stomach of
/ young man who contemplates matri
!, mony, and q girl who takes such
A man for life, for fear the young me-
will be all gone, makes foolishnes
!, Of herself, and will regret it as lon