The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-06-12
BOYS WHO DRINK.


A mother residing in a small city at the
North writes to know if the Sun can't
say something that will induce her daugh-
ter to quit keeping company with a young
man who gets drunk every time he takes
the girl to n party. If a mother cannot
say anything that viii induce the daughter
10 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 viii not break off an engagement with
such a young man. The girl should look
out about her and make inquiries and see
if she can find a case in the experience Of
her friends where such a young man ever
made a decent husband. She will never
find such a case. \ young man may SOW
wild oats. and get it up his nose. and be
full as a tick at times, and reform, and
become a square, useful citizen and a
good husband, but he will never have
a spree in the presence of the girl he loves.
The mere fact of a young man taking
a girl to a party, or a sleigh ride, and get
ting drunk, and humiliating her, and
causing her TO depend upon others for es-
cort to her home, IS one evidence that he
has no respect for her. ami she should
break off her engagement and cut him en-
tirely.
If she puts up with such insult now, be
fore she is married, when she is his wife
he will be liable to make her look out for
herself, and he viii get drunk from habit.
Twenty years ago there were hundreds of
young fellows in this State who thought it
was smart to take respectable girls TO
dances and get drunk, and let the girls
ride home with somebody who kept sober.
The girls would be yexed al the time, but
as the boys were rich, and went in good
society. the girls got to looking IN 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 haye
filed drunkard's graves, or have left their
wives and are wanderers on the face of the
earth. If young mar 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 Gharley's girl is not enough To
spoil his appetite for benzine. Farewell,
Charley, forever" should be The next and
last remark 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 un-
married to sacrifice their lives to beat
sense into the head Of any man IN Gods
footstool. Too many girls take the
chances of marrying a young man who las
an uncomfortable desire for liquor. think
ing that the surroundings of a 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 a married
handsomest, sweetest dispositioned girl
that a mother was ever proud of. A girl
will marry such a man hoping the next
year he will be better; but the 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 a proud