Year: 1874

cordingly. Their saloons and places of
amusement are made as attractive as pos
slble. Now the work of shutting up sal =
oons and other places where liquor is
sold, will be but temporary if some pro-
visions are not made to meet the want to
which l have referred. What shall it be
and What agency can woman have in it?
answer:


1st Wives and mothers should make
their homes attractive and pleasant to
their husbands and sons.-Many a wife
has had reason to blame herself for the
intemperance of her husbad. She never
made his home attractive and pleasant.
a young man marries an angel as he sup
poses, but IN a few months finds that he
was mistaken, that he has married slou
en- and a chtSTl. Mortified, disappointed
he becomes reckless. Finding nothing
congenial, nothing pleasant in his home
be spends his leisure hours in places where
he can fnd nJeyment.-Many mothers
are responsible for the dissipation of their
sons. They never did what they might
have done and should have done to keep
their sons away from the places where
they become familiar with scenes and hab-
It's OF dissipation. They never made home
attractive aud pleasant TO their sons.


I'd Mothers can do much to promote
the temperance reform by instillIng INTO
the minds of their children correct princi-
Piles on the subject. They can commence
early to store their youthful minds with
facts illustrating the advantages of total
abstinence from all that can intoxicate,
and the dangers of moderate drinking. A
proper education on this. subject will 20
lar toward preserving sons from this vice.
Many boys and young men ignorantly
form the appetite for strong drink. They
have never been taught the Dangers OF
tasting only occasionally the intoxicating
cup A mothers instructions and solici-
tatlons have saved many young man
from forming habits of intoxication. A
young man who was raised among the
rocks and mountains of Vermont was
about TO leave his home and 90 to sea.
As he and his mother stood by the gate OF
the old home waiting for the stage which
was to carry him to the sea port where he
was to embark upon a merchant vessel,
she took his hand in hers and with all the
pathos and earnestness of a mothers heart
SAID to him, "My son, they tell me that
the men on our chips are in the habit OF
drinking a great deal of liquor; now, Sam
uel, won't you promise your mother that
you will never taste a drop of ANYTHING
that will intoxicste." He hesitated q
moment, and then said to his mother, "I
promise you that, mother" and he started
for his vessel. Three years passed, and
when he returned to his old home his
mother was not there-her bsdy was
sleeping in the church lot-but that young
man, in a prayer meeting in the old church
rose and said, "Since left you I have
been to England, and France, and China
and the Sandwich Islands, have been In
many kinds of company, have been asked a
great many times to drink with friends
and comrades, butwhen tempted remem-
bered the promise which made to my
mother,lt has always saved me from form
ing habits of intoxication." There is no
influence so mighty with a son as that OF
true mother. Iflnothers will do this
duty to their sons, instruct them in the
principles of temperance, as to the duty
and advantages of total abstinence from
all that will lntoxicate, fewer sons would
grow up to be drunkards.


3. Those who combine their efforts to
close the dram shops should provide and
throw open cezy and attractive rooms,
warm, well lighted, cheerful, free to all.
They should supply the rooms with good
reading, such as will interest and attract
as well as instruct the youth. These
rooms should be prepared and supported
at the public expense. Such provisions
for the entertainment of the youth, the
young men who now seek it in saloons
would cost the community less by hun
dreds of dollars than these saloons cost di-
rectly and indirectly. The tax which is
paid IN any town to support the pauper-
ism and crime which result from the tIaf-
nc ard use of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage, would be more than sufficient
to make the most ample PROVISION for the
entertainment and instruction of the
youth and young men ef our commun-
Ity.