Connecticut western news., 1884-01-30
IT IS BEST TO KEEP SOBER.
A YOUNG MAN DRUNK, AND THE POSI-
 TION IN WHICH IT PLACES HIS
 BEST GIRL.
An Original Way of Telling n Man why it is Best net to Drink too Much Free Lunch.
IFrom Peck's Snn.l

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 A young man who signs himself "A Bounced One," writes and asks the fol- lowing question: ''Is girl right in giv- 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. It does not follow that because @ young man gets full once in two years en- gagement, that he would necessarily make 0 drunken husband, but girl is supposed to know whether she wants to take the chances or not. It IS not 0 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 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 a shock it gives her to see you drunk, with your eyes blood-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 sees 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 finger in her soul, and when she hears that maudlin laugh of drunkenness, and sees @ leer in place of the heavenly smile, and listens to your words, that come thick and uncertain, as though from your stomach, and she does not know but the next words that come will be accompa. nied by. stale beer and free lunch, you cannot wonder that she gives you the bounce.
 You would not go and have youl photograph taken when you were drunk and present it to her, and yet, when you appear before her in that condition, you appearance is photographed on her heart and the new pictures takes the place ot the old one that has been there, and try however hard she may to see you as sht wants to, bright and sober, and true lover, for the life of her, she canno erase the drunken picture, and while sht would forgive you if she could, she feeli that you have hurt her terribly. She ii not to blame, poor girl, for bouncing you. You bounced yourself out of hel heart when you thought you were smart and got full. True love and drunken ness cannot exist, where the parties art refined. You had rather she would bounce you than to have her tolerate you and always have that picture of you drunken condition coming up before her You can probably find girl, less refined who would overlook your getting drunk and you may marry such @ one, bu you will always love the little finger o the good girl who bounced you more than you can ever love the one who will overlook and laugh at your drunkenness It is 8 serious thing to do as you have done, and forty years from now, instead of thinking you did smart thing, you will discover that you made a colossa fool of yourself. Ii you think so now. and decide that she has done right anG can convince her that you realize what you have done, and are not too proud tc 90 and tell her about it, and ask hel pardon, it may be well with you, but i you feel that she is over-nice, and hai wronged you, you had better stay away and then you can get drunk all you wan kto, with no little girl that you love, tC complain, and you will regret your ac as long as you live. It is best to keeI | sober