Milford chronicle., 1927-05-06

a man sacrifice the respect of his wife
and child, much of his earnings, and
his own pride-all on the altar of drink.
If you, an anxious mother, pleading
comfortable home, and doing all in
your power to please him." cannot
make him see the crime he is commit
ting, I'm afraid no one can advise you.
For in my opinion you are doing all
that you can, if you try to make him
see.
1t lies within himself.
Some sa ythat kindness and fore
bearness in a wife will bring a man to
his senses. l don't believe it, | knew a
every night for many years gently un-
dressed and put to bed a husband un-
conscious from drink. And never once
was she heard to utter one work of
rebuke or complaint. Did he reform?
At sixty-eight he was found dead on a
doorstep, a victi moi his terrible habit.
I knew another woman whose con-
tinual pleadings and beseechings with
a drinking husband made of her at
thirty a white-haired, complaining.
nagging wreck of the beauty she had
been at twenty. He is still drinking.
l know yet another woman who re-
fused to live with the beast her hus-
band had become. She left him, di-
vorce followed and she Remarked, but
found no happiness away from the man
she had actually loved. And he is maxi
ing another wife miserable now.
There is one woman, however, who,
with plenty of money at her disposal,
sent her husband to sanitarium for
inebriates and waited patiently at home
for several years, until he was releas-
ed at last, cured. In the nine years I
have know him he has, with his wife
always at hand to encourage him, new
er touched another drop of liquor.
This proves that it can be done. But
I do not believe the strict discipline of
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I believe that a wife can do more than
make him see his mistake and encour-
age him.
1 believe that drinking man needs
but. three things to refornl-the reali-
zation OF the seriousness of his habit.
the desire to reform, and strong will
power And all that you or anyone can
do is to make him see the serious con
sequence he is inviting for himself his
wife and his child. Then he will wish
to give this thing up. and if he has
enough strength. of character to deter
mine to do so, he an. 1t is only a very
weak man who let's a bad habit get the
Make him see. Then leave the rest
to him.
MONA DEWES
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DEAR MONA DEWES-I am a girl
in High School and for two years 1
have been liking a boy the same age as
myself. l am sixteen years of age.
Altho I am not allowed to have COM
pany, he often takes me to the movies,
and we are together occasionally. He
never goes with any other girls when
he can possibly be in my company.
Now, there is another girl about the
same age who is trying her hardest to
get him away from me. What attitude
shall show this girl and boy? I learn,
in fact this girl herself told me, that he
had called on her recently. We are all
in the same grade at school, Shall 1
blame him or the girl?
JUST A BLUE-EYED BLONDE
ANSWER-It would be fatal to your
friendship with this boy to let him see
you are taking his attention to the
other girl so seriously Since she is
trying to arouse your jealousy, do not
blame either, but maintain a friendly
attitude toward both of them. She will
probably lose interest in him when she
finds her .wiles have not had any eff
feet, and he will be piqued by your in
difference and admire your spirit.
MONA DEWES