The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-02-07

Spend Il for food. not rum, Florence"
/ didn't follow their advice. A chart
table woman wrote my parents. My own
mother answered. saying her heart was
broken, but that they had given me UP,
that my case was hopeless.
kindheaTted woman place. me with
the good sisters in n convent near Har-
rison. New York They were kind TO me
hut they would give me nothing TO drink,
| craved drink. ! went mad for f. 7
climbed the high convent wall ran 20 the
station, found a dollar on the station floor
where some one had dropped II and paid
my fare 10 New York. When I arrived
went straight TO a cafe. | asked the pro
prietor. who had known me in prosperous
times. to trust me for the drinks. tele-
phoned a woman friend who came and
paid for them. though she did grudgingly.
II suppose I'll have TO get YOU out OF
hook. you fool" she said
That's IT," ] said I'm a fool am
filled with the folly that you pour out Of
a bottle"
Since then I've lived about. on the boun-
~ of former friends who pitied me. My
health and strength were gone. lay in
bed all day. awaking only to drink myself
into stupor. To be sober was TO realize
the depths to which I had fallen and that
was torment for then the fine sensibllities
] had inherited from gentle folk awoke in
me ana dashed me as with whips.
Then came this last terrible illness that
sooner or later viii prove fatal There is
no hope for me. Drink caused the alb
dominal walls 10 become encysted. IL
hardened my liver. I am dying, though
tediously. slowly. There is no hope for
me. But there is hope that 7 may say
what will warn other girls from fate
like mine.
have seen other girls slip slowly down
TO perdition as / have done and even more
rapidly. That dreaded disease. swift
consumption Is not quicker than drink
when it devours some bodies and blghts
some souls
do you drink?" heard a physician ask
a beautiful young actress.
No" she replied her clear eyes looking
Into his. corroboratlng her story. why
do you ask
Because" he replied. III you did you
would be dead or insane I'm three weeks
Hers. he explained was q delicately
organized constitution upon which liquor
would work havoc. rapidly destroying her
nerves and putting out the lamp Of her
know a girl who Is beautiful as the
dawn. her beauty OF the fresh. delicious
sort OF dev-hssed viOlets. Yet that girl
sits al day In cafes. drinking brandy and
finishing the day with doses OF cocaine.
The doctors say that at most she can
live two months
Drink Is the greatest danger that threat
ems a wOman's footsteps. for 70 Is the be
ginning OF all other pitfalls Avoid the
FIRST glass and regard the friend who offers
you first glass from that time as an
enemy
Old men give the advice. Keep your
head" You cannot keep your head with
demons Of brandy OF green devils OF alb
a.nthe dancing In your brain
Old women tell YOU 90 guard well your
heart for that way danger lies. You can
not guard your heart while fumes OF
drill Ifr.e A.
such time every one seems "A friend and
everyone rs enwrapped IN romance.
The greatest safeguard a girl can have
IS q fcar-a hatred of strong drink and OF
the drugs that follow
Drink and drugs are sign posts on the
path which leads by way OF the Morgue 10
Pottcr's Field My way. your way. the
way hatsbegius in forced gayety and ends
in despair the way not Of mirth. but OF
misery 0bjoct and hopeless.