The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-21
TEMPERANCE READING.
HEART. eRoKEN.

The Piteons Wall It a Poor Wife and
Mother Whose Husband WIN Drink
The Terrible Outlook for Herself and
Her Seven Children.
We received letter this week from
lowe. which contains the following
sentences:
81 have seven children living. Their father
tCiu drink, and I am so hedit-broken. My
trouble is greater than any ever described in
sake of the children"
There is more of it. but this is sufi
Gent
God help the poor woman! "I am
so heart broken. hare screen children
and their father a0iu drink"
Of course she is. 1t could not be
| otherwise. She came to the man who
is her husband, an innocent girl. full OF
hope, full of anticipation, full OF love,
dreading nothing, trusting everything.
He was TO stand between her and the
cold world, she was to do her woman's
! share and he was to do his man S
! share, and they were to go down
| through life to the valley and shadow,
hand in hand, each hel p and comfort
to the other She had visions of the
home he was 10 furnish her, of the chill
dren that were to be born to them, of
the labor made pleasure by the antici-
| pations of the good that, through it,
was to come to them, and finally, of the
peaceful ending when the garnered
| treasures that well-lived, prosperous
years had brought would be left as a
heritage to those they had reared in
| honor and usefulness. That's what
| was in the girls mind when she stood
| up in the parlor of her old home and
resigned her life into the keeping of the
man who had wooed and won her.
What has happened to her?
| 81 have seven children living, and their
| father will drink. l am so heartbroken."
This is what is the matter. "Tbeir
| father a0iU drink, and am so heart
broken" That sentence should be re-
| peated over and over again. We would
that we could burn it into the very
heart of every man in the land: II
haze SeUen children liUing, and their
father a0iU drink. lam so heart-6roken. +"
Their father got in the habit of fire.
quenting the miserable corner grocery
which the cupidity of the brewer estab-
lished near him, and the regular thing
happened.
He commenced in light way, he
progressed to regular drinking, and
then, the appetite once fixed, he came
home drunk every night. Possibly he
beat the patient, accomplishing
woman. but more likely be came home
so sodden he was incapable of that
brutality, but simply rolled into bed,
and slept the sleep of drunken beast.
He rose in the morning, incapable of
labor and went as soon as possible,
back to the beer-shop, where he stayed
all day. AS a matter of course the farm
was neglected, the work that was done
was done by the woman and the chill
dren, and their little earnings were
wrested from them to supply the never
satisfied demon of drink that had pos
session of the father Scant food, rags,
cold and hunger followed. The chill
dren are not well enough clad to go to
church or school, and they are grow
ing up in ignorance, and are being fit
ted for the penitentiary or gallows.
The mother loves these children, and,
seeing the inevitable before them, no
wonder she writes:
Their father will drink. am so heart
broken
She gets up in the morning as tired as
she went to bed. She goes to bed to
sleep, but she does not sleep. The
drunken brute beside her prevents
sleep. He has murdered sleep, not for
himself, but for his suffering wife. Her
pillow is wet with tears. She has in
] her mind all nirb+ lo,,e- Ill - -