The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-01-26
Boys Who Drink.
MiliU0ub,ee .Sun.

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
every time he takes the girl to party.
If mother cannot say anything that
will induce the daughter to give up an
escort who insults her, a 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 out about her and make in
quiries and see if she can find case
in the experience of her friends where
such young man ever made a 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 citizen and good hus-
band, but he will never have spree
in the presence of the girl he loves.
The mere fact of young man taking
girl to 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
10 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 a
living for several little children by
hard work, while the smart fellows that
got drunk have filled drunkard's graves,
or have left their wives and are wan
derers on the face of the earth. If a
young man loves a girl as he should
love her to marry her, look of disap-
probation 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, "Farewell, Charley, for
ever" should be the next and last re-
mark she should ever make to him.
Marrying men to reform them has
never been a successful enterprise on
the part of women. Girls are worth
too much unmarried to sacrifice their
lives to beat sense into the head of any
man on Gods foot-stool. Too many
girls take the chances of marrying a
young man who has an uncomfortable
appetite Tor liquor, thinking that the
Surroundings of home will wean him.
Such a man does not wean as easily as
a calf. He will go home only to
sober up, and then not till the other
places are closed. Five years of such
married life will make middleaged
woman of the handsomest, sweetest
dispositioned girl that mother was
ever proud of. A girl will marry such
a man hoping the 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 hus-
band that had sense, becomes 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 husband may give them away.
Whiskey may be all 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 man for life, for
! fear the young men will all be gone,
makes foolishness of herself, and 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 moth
er, will deserve all the unhappiness she
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