Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-03-22
THE BOY WHO DRINKS.
From Peck's Sun.

can't say something that will Undue,
her daughter to quit keeping company
with young man who gets drunk every
time he takes girl to a party. If +;
mother cannot say anything that vii
induce the daughter to give up ar
escort who insults her, poor, weak
newspaper cannot de any good. The
girl has got the fever too bad, if she
will pot break off an Engagement with
such a young man. The girl should
look about her and make inquiries and
see if she can find a case in the ex-
perience of her friends where such q
young man ever made decent hus-
band. She will never find such a 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 a
square, useful citizen and a good hus
band, but he never will have a spree
in the presence of the girl he loves.
The mere fact of young man taking
girl to a party, or sleigh ride, and
getting drunk, and humiliating her,
and causing her to depend upen 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 lookout for herself, and
will get drunk from habit. Twenty
years ago there were hundreds of
young fellows in this state who
thought it was smart to take respect
able 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, put as the boys
were rich, and went in good society,
the girls got to looking upon the sprees
as good jokes, and they would laugh
at it. We know some of those girls
to-day who are earning a living for
several little children by hard work,
while the smart fellows that got drunk
have filled drunkards graves, or have
left their wives as wanderers on the
earth. If young man loves a 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, is not enough to
spoil his appetite for benzine, "Fare-
well, Charley, forever" should be the
next and last remark she should ever
make to him. Marrying men to re-
form them has never been a successful
enterprise on the part of woman.
Girls are worth toe much, unmarried,
to sacrifice their lives to beat sense
into the head of any man on God
foot-stool. Too many girls take the
chance Of marrying a young man who
has an uncomfortable appetite for
liquor, thinking that the surroundings
of home will wean him Such a
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 a married
life will make a middle aged woman
of the handsomest, sweetest dis
POSTPONED girl that a 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 proud and happy mother,
with a husband that had sense, be-
comes ashamed to look at herself in
the glass, and had almost rather have
fit of sickness than to be visited by
any of her friends, for fear her hus-
band will give them all away.
Whisksy may be all right in its place,
and we hope it is, but the place for it
is not in the stomach Of young man
who contemplates matrimony, and a
girl who takes such a man for life, for
fear the young men will all be gone,
makes a foolishness of herself, and
will regret it az long as she lives.
There are sure to be sober boys ensugh
for all the girls, and there is no need
of marrying drunkard, and the girl
who does so, against the advice of her
mother. will deserve all the unhappi-
ness she marries.
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