Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-02-28
YOUNG MAN DRUNK.

"A young Iudu WHO Signs himself "A
Bounced One" writes to the San and
asks the question:; rs girl right in
giving her fellow the bounce if he
comes home full of-not love, but
beer-once, only once, during two
years engagements" The girl is the
one to judge whether she is right or
not. If she thinks it is right that set
ties it. 1t does not follow that be-
cause young man gets full once in a
two years engagement 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 a light thing to be drunk in
the presence of the 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 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 yonr eyes bloodshot and waterv.
your hair, that, perhaps she has stroked
with her gentle hand, all tangled up
and full of cheese and sandwich! She
had admired your gentlemanly bear
ing, and now she sees you staggering,
and left handed in both feet. She has
learned to love to hear you laugh and
to see you smile, and the echoes of
your pleasant words linger in her soul,
and when she hears the lnaudlin laugh
of drunkenness and sees the leer in
place of the heavenly smile, and listens
to your words, that come thick and un-
certain, as though from your stom-
ach, and she does not know but the
next words that come will be accom-
panied 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 are 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 picture takes the place of the old
one that has been there. and trv how
ever hard she may to see you as she
wants to, bright and sober and a true
lover, for the life of her she cannot
erase the drunken picture, and while
she would forgive you if she could she
feels that you have hurt her terribly.
She is not to blame, poor girl, for
bouncing you. You bounced yourself
out Of her heart when you thought
you We're smart, and got full. True
love and drunkenness cannot exist
where the parties are refined. You
had rather she would bounce YOU
than to have her tolerate YOU. and
always have the picture of your
drunken condition coming up before
her. You can probably find a girl less
refined, who will overlook your getting
drunk, and you may marry such one,
but you will always love the little
finger of the good girl who bounced
you more than you can ever love the
one who will overlook and laugh at
your drunkenness. 1t is a serious
thing do as you have done, and forty
years from now, instead of thinking
you did smart thing, you will dis
cover that you made colossal fool of
yourself If you think so now and
decide that she has done right, and
can convince her that you realize that
you have done wrong, and are not too
proud to go 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 complain, and
you will regret your act as long as you
live. 1t is best to keep sober.-Peck's
San.