Connecticut western news., 1883-04-04
THE BOY WHO DRINKS. LITTLE ADVICE THAT MAY BE SAFELY FOLLOWED. Girls Who Put up With a Drinking Man Before, Know What to Expect
 After Marriage.
From the Milwaukee Sum-

From the Milwaukee Sum-
 A mother residing in 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 8 young man who gets drunk every time he takes the girl to party. If a mother cannot say anything that will induce the daughter to give up an escort who in- suits 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 young man. The girl should look about her and make inquiries and see if she can find 8 case ill the experi- ence of her friends where such young man ever made decent husband; She will never find such case. A young man may SOW wild oats, and get it up his nose, and be full as tick at times, and reform, and become square, useful citi- zen and a good husband, but he will never have 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 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 entirely.
 If she puts up with such insult 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 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 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 several little children by hard work, while the smart fellows that got drunk have filled drunkard's 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, 8 look of disap' probation from her, at any act of his, will be enongh to break him of any habit that he has that she does not like. II the words "Please don't drink, Charley, , from the lips of Charley's girl, is not enough to spoil his appetite for benzine, Farewell, Charley, forever" should be the next and last remark she should ever make to him.
 1 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 l 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 uncomfortable appetite for liquor, thinking that the surround ings of a home will wean him. Such g man does not wean as easily as 8 calf He will go home onl y to sober up, an6 then not till the other places are closed Five years of such married life vii make middle-aged woman of the hand somest, sweetest-dispositioned girl tha mother was ever proud of. A girl vii marry such man hoping that next yea he will be better /; but next year he vii
 be worse.
 The nose will begin to get red, the eye
 bleared, the clothes carelessly worn, an,
 the wife who would have been such
 proud and happy mother, with husban' that had sense, becomes ashamed to lool at herself in the glass, and had almos
 rather have fit of sickness than to b visited by any of her friends, for fear he
 husband may give them away. Whisk may be all right in it's place, and W , hope it is, but the place for it is not i
 the stomach of young man who COT } templates matrimony, and the girl wh r takes such man for life, for fear tn young men will all be gone, makes 7 foolishness of herself, and will regret
 as long as she lives. There are sure be sober boys enough for all the girl 3 and there is no need of marrying
 drunkard, and the girl who does s' l. against the advice of her mother, wi e deserve all the unhappiness she marie