The Forrest City times., 1905-07-14

although John Lowrey waz wiling 10 provide everything fer her E Gls powet and rather objected to he. tryiL toeaT4. money for herself.
 Her aim ard ambition a present WIZ concentrated in paying fer their pretty home. John $ bizness WIZ good. theIr household expenses light. fer Alice Cd her work with no domestic aIG it would have been an easy matter tO complete the payments. were t not for this one thing have mentioned.
 c; course, bein' Q storeEeeper. JoEn wu1 visited by plenty of commercial travellers, and wuZ 1hrowed in with q good many hjzness men. and he had got the name among 'em ot hen good fel- low by treatin 'em. He would allow no ene to pay for the drinks when he waz about Every man has his peculiar fads. and this WIZ Johns. More than once he had gone back to the dear little home and pretty wife decidedly the worse fer the potations he had Imbibed. and when She remonstrated with him. he would always say:
 Oh, il is only to help business along wouldn't thought Of drinE:H but haQ 10 treat 10 make the fellows good na- tured You must make yourself popular or you can't expect 10 succeed in any business"
 And il wuz partly the truth that l. spoke He wuz not lever Of strong drink now whatever he might get to be m the future. And be cd have all idea mat the treatin habit WIZ helpful to his h1neSs. And he was. as say lavish in (hls way. and as the story of his sener- oslly Tn this direction sot abroad he had no iack of objects rC practice upon And The money he spent in this way amount. Cd 10 more in the course of . year than he had any idea of.
 But Alice, in Quiet WAY pot hold ot h the information she could about i An old friend Of her fathers who WIZ also 9ood friend of the young coupe gym her a her request the needed tn- formation. And she found :he money Ter hHsbanG spent in this way would more than make the yearly payments oh 'he!r home When she had reduced lals information to figures and cen Honted him with il. John wuz startled. ana could not believe he wuz speu6in so nnoh money or this fad of hisen.
 hn' she proved ltto him. and he vowed nc would reform. and give iIp the habi. h9t alas how much easier | is to uron.. .St 'han 10 keep promises John did try o aNhl!e# l9t he soon F26ksNd and got mo HIs old ways again And Alice see LIS money meltiu' away. and also what "@ much harder fer her to endure. she s'e her husband gradually getting i'm HeShtd in .he net of habit that WIZ .'.''A har6el and harder to break.
 Aslh she reasoned with him Cn the ,A.raRasanee and fooIishness of this h"h't O; 'reatin' and the danger t WIZ ,O .AAlAlena}s. and the eommanitv. And as4at.tea the reason C her areumerte "''9 that many spent money on these '.''.-'e aschalntances that WIZ scre}v
 "3 ill their bare. cold homes the tIl1E. hungry s;omaehs asd shlvesin '."I Cad bodies of wife and children f'lo mat many who cid not care for tha .0'ettdse al frs, wUz lead into it by the ,I 1.-'l'lal habit Of treatin. And so the ,' '-' spread out into wider and wider cir e sike Whirlpool, ana drew more and 'NuFN 3hfa il like chlrs.
 ,, Aha aeia he promised. and agin hs 4't his promise. ard Alice wuz at he. r,' , 'ha. But she wuz not the one To boa ai her efforts as long as there wuz ,bI ope ot succeeding. And one day when ,a.., 'i.- feeling discouraged and as nigh .o,rIa ,'ss. as such cheery hopeful nature
 ever tssl, .an idee come to her