Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-08-29
A;piain Sermon


-wilIinduce.he rdaughtertostop
ing company with. a young man
who: gets drunk every finch etakes
1.-the girl to, "a party: 8; the mother
cln,G. saS -us9s th ip e~tll;lt will induce
Iithesl 4. s5,sup az; escort
too
lsbaliifssfes will not break off an en-
gagement withSsuch ayoung man.
The girl Should look aboutsher and
make inquiries and see if she can
find a :casetin the experience Of her
friend where such a young man
ever made a decent. husband. She
will uever find such a case. a
young anan may sow his wild oats,
and may get up his nose, and be4as
full as Il tick at times, aud reform,
and become a square, useful citizen
and d good husband, but me will
never spree in the presence OF
the girl he loves.
The mere fact of young man
taking a girl to a party, or Il sleigh
ride, and getting drunk, and hu
initiating her, and causing her to
depend on others for escort to her
home, is one evidence that be has
no respect for her, and she should
break her engagement and cut him
entirely. -
If she puts up with such insults
now, before she is married, when
size is his wife he will he liable to
make her look out for herself, and
he will get drunk from habit
Twenty years ago, there were hun;
,lreds of young fellows in thisState
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 vexed at the
time, but as the boys were rich,
and went in good society, the girls
got to locking. on the sprees us good
jokes, and they would laugh about
it. r. 80
We know some of those girls to-
day who are. earning a living for
several small children by hard work
while the smart fellows that got
drunk have filed drunkard's
graves or have left their wives and
are wanderers on the face of the
# a young man loves q
'gi1rl as ne Should: love Is
marry her, Il luek of disapprobstion
from her at any act OF his, will BIZ
enough to break him Of any habit
that She does not like. Ifthe.words,
"Ple;lse tlon't drink, Charley"
from the lips of Cllarley's girl is not
enough to spoil his appetite for
benzile, farewell, Charley, for.
ever" should be the next and last
remark she should ever make to
him.
: Marrying men TO reform them
has never been a successful enter.
prise 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
footstool. Too many girls take the
chances Of marrying Il young man
who has an uncomfortable desire
for liquor, thinking that the sur
roundings OF a home will wean him.
Such Il man does not wean as cas-
lily as u calf. He will go home only
20 sober up, and then not till the
other places are closed. Five years
of such a married life will make a
niddie-aged woman of the hand
soonest, swcetest-dispositioDed girl
Il 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 care
lessly worn, and the wife who
would have been such a proud and
happy mother with Il husband who
has sense, becomes ashamed to
look at herself in the glass, and
had almost rather have q fit ofsick
ness than to be visited by any of
her friends, for fear her husband
may give them away. Whlskey
may be all right. iu its place, and
we hope is, but the place for it is
not the stomach of young man
who contemplates matrimony. and
the girl who takes such a man for
Life rsfear tile young men will all
be gone, makes d foolish slave 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 mother
will deserve all the unhappiness
she marries.
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Mr.. Edward lIanl;,n, the great
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