Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-08-23
NEW VOL. 29---NO. 40.

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he leaves the house before the chill
dren come down for breakfast. Rush
ing home after the days work, alb
sorbed in his multitudinous affairs, he
Is either too wearied or too worried to
plav with the children or he ruSheS
off to the theatre to enjoy, at a rush.
an hour or two of amusement. HON"
again. Of course the children are IN
bed. So the little ones, and, for that
matter. the big ones, too whom he
really dotes upon, he sees only on sun
DAYS. The children, on their part.
when papa enters the room immei'-
stely smother their happy laugh ana
prattle in a whisper.
But behold the home where the chl-
dren are accustomed TO welcome papa
as a great big fellow-playmate They
spring to him ioyou-ly, climb upon hls
knee. ramble round his shoulders and
over his head, 90 to bed in roIcklns
glee, while papa has drowned dull care
in the romp.
The best husband make the wife hIs
coufdute. Even though one with
hold or misrepresent matters to his
wife so she won't worry, 1t Is gener-
ally a mistake. l, leads to jealousy,
suspicion and cruel disappointment
Cor her. and to error and trouble, and
often to crime, for him. Men are most
prone to DO this in time of financial
straits. The wife, quite unaware,
spends money as freely as usual, max
ing things all the worse in the end. II
man be not rich his wife must find II
out in time; why not tell herat once
To deceive ones wife is the first step TO
uuhappiness. To accept her counsel,
place a value upon her intuition, are
sure steps toward happiness. To work
with her side by side, is happiness.
ANTHONY COMSTOCK.
| have studied the laws of horrdlty,
practically. and with hundred of liy-
ing illustrations, right here in tins Of
fee. for twenty-five years and have
reached a firm conviction that no man
is worthy TO become a husband or
father who is not always sober and
clean. BY sober, mean man who
is not familiar with the red cup by
clean. one whose body is pure and
healthfuI.
must make the startling statement
that we are at present developing a
race Of drunkards. Statistics show
that, leaving out the children, there Is
one drunkard to every forty-two per-
sons. This means that nearly one
half the adult people in the United
States drink something else than wa
ter.
As there are twenty-five million
children IN the United States, and as
they are all under the care Of this
society, have sufficient evidence TO
encourage me in my belief that any
man who tipples cannot be a good
father not that the greatest wrong Is
TO himself but because Of tne wrong
done his children. find that nine
out of every ten men who drink had
drinking fathers or a drinking family
before them. The father says "Oh I!
! ! only drink a little, you know 1t
meyer affects me. But the father
never knows what terrible effects Of
Just drinking "a little may be rc-
vealel in his offspring; what awful
influence it may have upon the mind
and habits of his child.
You cannot encryate the mind and
body and have strength and intellect
remain If you are a father, as you
SOW strength and intellect in yourself,
so shall you reap strength and intel
lect in your children If drunkenness
and liceutiousuess 90 hand in hand, if
we are generating a drunken race,
then we are producing at the same
time an unclean race. There II room
here. regret to say, only for the
cruel, hard facts. Let thinking men
and women consider them and, above
all, let the wives bring all their loving
| influence to bear upon their husbands
to restrain those very husbands from
drinking And the woman who can
keep her husband from strong drink
will have the very best husband.
Foreordination.
Years ago an old hard-shell preach
er, who lived on the border in the
| days when the Indians were at war
with the whites, was making prepare