St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-01
Marrying Drinking Men TO Re
form Them.
SOME SOUND ADVICE FOR GIRLS.

A mother residing in a small city at
the north writes to know if the Sun
can't say something that will induce
her daughter to quit keeping company
with young man who gets drunk ev-
cry time he takes the girl to a party.
If the mother cannot say anything to
induce the daughter to give up an es-
cOrt who insults her, poor, weak
newspaper cannot do any good. The
girl has got the fever too bad, if 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 iii the expe-
rience of her friends where such
young man ever made Il decent hus-
band. She will never find such a
case.
A young man may SOW wild oats,
and get up noise, and be as full
as il tick at times, and reform, and be-
come Il square, useful citizen and a good
! husband, but he will never have a
spree in the presence of the girl he
loves. The mere fact of a young man
| taking a girl to a party, or Il sleigh
ride, and getting drunk, and humili-
ating 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 shOHld break off her en-
gagement and cut him entirely. If she
puts mp with insult now, before she
is married, when she is his wife he will
he liable to leave her to look out for
herself, and he will get drunk from
habit.
If young man loves girl as he
should love her 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 are not enough to spoil his appe-
tite for benzine, Farewell, Charley,
forever" should he the next and last
remark she should ever make to him.
Marrying men to reform them has new.
er been successful enterprise on the
part of women. Girls are worth toe
much, unmarried, to sacrifice theiI
lives to beat sense into the head of any
man on Gods foOtstOOl.
Too many girls take the chances OF
marrying a young man who has an un-
ing that the surroundings of IA home
will wean him. Such IA man does not
wean as easy as IA calf. He will 20
home to sober up and not till the Other
places close. Five years of such maE-
ried life will make a middle-aged wo-
man of the handsOmest, sweetest-dis-
positioned girl that mother was evel
proud of. A girl will marry such q
man, hoping that next year he will be
better, but next year he will be worse
The nose will begin to get red, tn,
eyes bleared, the clothes carelessl,
worn, and the wife who would have
been such "A proud and happy mother
: with Il husband that had sense, be
comes ashamed to look at herself in tn,
r glass, and had almost rather have a fl
of sickness than to be visited by any o
her friends, for fear her husband viii
, give them all away.
2 Whiskey may be all right in iti
. place, but that is not in the stomach o
: young man who contemplates matrr
= mOny, and a girl who takes such maj
= for life will regret it as long as sh'
lives. There are sure to be sober boy
+ enough for all the girls, and there i
i no need of marrying a drunkard, ant