The Washington times., 1914-07-20


He tells me that IL I marry him
I can reform him. I know I can. we
love each other 30 dearly. But moth
er saws L can't. What shall I do:
" HEARTBROKEN.
@O the only reason your father and
mother have against the man you
~ love is that he drinks, is It!
Dear me-is that all? why. you
wouldn't let a little thing like that
keep You from marrying him, would
your
| Not II Won are a real heroine in a
real romance-not If you love him
"madly. passionately. blindly.' like the
girl in the stories. The very idea!
What's drink or two compared to the
volcanic emotions of your maidenly
! heart? -'' To '.'
Why. YOU think II makes him allur-
ing, don't you? You love to look At
him. and think that he is wicked and
desperately daring-such q darling.
romantic sinner-some one to help
some one to reform
And he's told YOU all about II, has
he? All. yes-how interesting.
He's told you, too, that You are the
| white lily of his life the one pale star
of purity shining into the dark sky of
his existence. You can save him-you,
! and you alone. He clings to you as
drowning man clings to. 4 straw
and with about as much common sense,
TOO, let me tell you.
An Object Lesson. e..
You live in a little town, you say.
Look around you and see what is hap
pening there. That's real life, you
know-it isn't in a book or in a play
or in a song-it's real. AS real as the
cold that bites In winter and the heat
that STILES in summer.
What's that little family down there
by the tracks? You never 20 down
that way and don't know anything
about them. Well, go for this once.
You need to. know Ihem-tust a little
The woman down there-can you be-
lieve that just a few years ago she
was the prettiest girl in her own vii
lishtest of heart Look at her now;
you can scarcely think that she ever
smiled in all her life. What wretcheti
clothes she wears, and the two babies
but how patched and faded their little
clothes are.
That's her husband you met s!ouch-
ing out of the gate-good looking chap,
wasn't he, fine manners. too?
She was dead IN love with him when
she married hfnr--Just as you are dead
IN love with your sweetheart new
and he was dead in love with her, too
He told her that If she'd marry HIN
he'd never drink another drop-and il
she didn't marry him he'd go straight
to the. devil
Reform?-Perhaps.
He did trv to reform poor chap:
he tried hard. and she tried to help
him. But it was no USE he might as
well have tried TO reform from the
typhoid fever. II was In his blood
the disease of drink-and now he lets
the woman who he loved so madly go
hungry and. sometimes when he has
been drinking, he is unkind TO his
own little children and the woman is
ashamed to go back home and SO she
stays there with him, a martyr to her
own folly and her own stubborn self
will.
form" thousands of thsm-yes. thou
sands upon thousands, thank the great
Giver of all Good-but, little girl. wait
till your own particular man has re
formed" before you marry him.
II you can't stop your sweetheart
from drinking before you're married
to him, you'll never in the world be
able to stop him afterward.
Listen TO your mother and father
put the man on probation-and see.
That's the best way, little girl that's
the only way. Take il II YOU want a
fighting chance for happiness.
Copyright. 1914. Newspaper Feature servicsD