TIPPLING SONS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 55, 18 October 1884, Page 3

TIPPLING SONS.

(advertisement.) (Continued ) But are ti.ey aione to blame ? Are tliero none else who ought to shnre i the blame ? ! Sadly and reluctantly must we confess that many parents' hands ars '< not ay they should be, Foolish train- • ing has a cioser connection with sous' tippling; than macy think. The mischief has too often begun at home. The taproots must, be sought, alas ' at the place of th ir birth. I say not that it is ahvay3 so, for that would not be true. Tipplingsons have been found before now in the most perfect ot homes. There are many sorrowing parents whose consciences are clear. Let mo point out snme of those taproots of tippling which take their rise at home. And, first, let us ask, What kind of example do the parents set their sons? In thousands of instances a very bad one. 1 do not scruple to say that parents' example has sent many a son to ruin. J Neither is it necessary that parents should drink to excess in order to lead their sons astray. They have but to act on the assumption that drink is a necessity of life and caiinoj lie dispensed with, that drink is good for evjry .me ot life's ailments, that drink should be taken fively by everyone, and the seed will in many cases be cast that bafow long shall spring up into a noxious harvest. Thoy arb layinjr the gunpowder train which by.-and-bye shall blow their sons to ruin. They are preparing n grave in which, the diirHisg* of their lives shall by-and-bye be laid, by strung* drink. Let parents remember that.a path which may be safe for them may be fatal for their boys, that sure feet may walk where unsteady oh"S may stumble, and thai a soul heavily ! weighted and balanced with runny years' experience may sail easily over th.a oceau of life where an unbalanced and unequipped one may tied over or be cast upon the rocks. Parents, is it too much to ask that you should count the cost t It may be that were you to ask the question, "What influence may my drinking have upon my boy f" you might pause in your course,- and perhaps cuter upon a sa.'er path.. It U surely bolter to sacrifice strong di-iiik than to sacrifice the lads. *