TIPPLING SONS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 58, 25 October 1884, Page 3

TIPPLING SONS.

{ ') ' And then it may bft wisely asked, ' What kind of advice do thoy give ' their sons ? In mauy cases none at all, .Advice on every other subject but strong drink they give freely and ■ constantly. Thej' feel strongly thar, i it is the parent;.' province to a 1 vise their sons as to the dangers and difficulties of life. And thoy act upon the feeling. But how incomprehensible it is that the greatest danger of a .young man's life- shouid be ignored bv so many. No wonder that such sons uoingAbrti- froln rfhoir hom ''s all unequipped should iail- -o readily irit> the -tempter's' trap, and beconae'the victims of strong' 'drink. Unwarned feet 'trip merrily into Aew toils. . : :' . ..':■■■ - ' But th.ere-iis smnethin"; worse than silence in connection with this : subject of giving* advice, and that- is giving bad advice. 'I.et nie g"i*etwo'instani-es from ; real life, . duly 7 reminding, my readers that these two might ba a thousandfold. • ; , A sen was leaving for the first time his .mother's- rooi. • He was leaving for the yr eat metropolis Tho mother's rheari. was natural ljanxi oup about her. lad, and -.ler "ddvifcg pdufe'df'o'rtli Axbiin- '\ dan'tly. This was one portion of it : j " Don't forget to take some beer or ! wine. ; You wiil need it with city work. Promise me." Here is another, a blacker piece of advice still, from the father of ninny sons : " If my sons .-.ver drink anything oth-p than port I'll disinherit them." Obedient sons they were for they took their father al his word. rid now, seek the whole world over and a more terrible group of sons you will never find. Death has visited that family more than once, nnd the living nre almost worse than the deac . I hey are drunkards all. To he mntinued.