News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21

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A young man who signs himself ga
Bounced One," writes and asks the fol-
lowing question: 'Is a girl right IN CIV
ing her fellow the bounce, if he comes
home full of-not love, but beer-once,
only once, during a two years engage
ment ?" The girl is the one to judge
whether she is right or not. If she
thinks she is right, that settles it. 1t
does not follow that because a young
man gets full once in a two years en-
gagement, that he would necessarily
make a drunken husband, but girl is
supposed to know whether she wants to
take the chances or not. 1t IS not
light thing to be drunk in the presence
OF one you love, young man. You may
laugh at it, and think she will look upon
it as a joke, but you are liable to knock
all the love out of her heart, when you
think you are smart. She thinks of you
as a noble man, and your picture is in
her heart, engraved, as it were, there,
| just as she sees you when you are at
your brightest and best. What shock
Au gives llSI W ste ,yOu uLhJ WIN OuA
eyes bIood-shot and watery, your hair,
that, perhaps, she has stroked with her
gentle hand, all tangled up and full of
cheese sandwich She has admired
your gentlemanly bearing, and now she
ees you staggering, and left-handed in
both feet. She has learned to love to
hear you laugh, and see you smile, and
the echoes of your pleasant words inger
in her soul, and when she hears that
maudlin laugh of drunkenness, and sees
a leer in place of the heavenly smile, and
listens TO your words, that come thick
and uncertain, as though from your
and she does not know but the
next words that come will be accompa-
MED by stale beer and free lunch, you
cannot wonder that she gives you the
bounce.
You would not go and have your
photograph taken when you were drunk,
and present it to her, and yet, when you
appear before her in that condition, your
appearance is photographed on her heart,
and the new pictures takes the place of
IllG OlGt one Iudt HAS D66n lu0Ic, StI1l u
however hard she may to see you as she
wants to, bright and sober, and a true
over, for the life of her, she cannot
erase the drunken picture, and while she
would forgive you if she could, she feels
hat you have hurt her terribly. She is
lot to blame, poor girl, for bouncing
you. You bounced yourself out of her
leart when you thought you were smart,
md got full. True love and drunken
less cannot exist, where the parties are
efned. You had rather she would
,ounce you than to have her tolerate you,
md always have that picture of your
drunken condition coming up before her.
You can probably find girl, less refined,
yho would overlook your getting drunk,
md you may marry such one, but
,ou will always love the little finger of
he good girl who bounced you more
han you can ever love the one who will
overlook and laugh at your drunkenness.
It is serious thing to do as you have
lone, and forty years from now, instead
If thinking you did smart thing, you
VIII ulSCOF0L bldu YOU AhaoO ~ SOAO'0'3A
ool of yourself. Ii you think so now,
md decide that she has done right and
can convince her that you realize what
you have done, and are not too proud to
go and tell her about it, and ask her
pardon, it may be well with you, but if
you feel that she is over-nice, and has
wronged you, you had better stay away,
and then you can get drunk all you want
to, with no little girl that you love, to
and you will regret your act
IS long as you live. 1t is best to keep
sober.