TIPPLING SONS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 61, 1 November 1884, Page 3

TIPPLING SONS.

(advertisement.) (Continued.) No acvice, bad advice, has mad * ; : life's pathway slippery for untold thousands. Alas ! that ever it should ;be so* Need I say what should be ? Surely every thoughtful parent should mark the. drink-rock on which so many noble s»ul-< have suffered ship- . wreck in body and soul on the chart . which, they place m their sons' hands, A fatal omission is it if they do not. an omission which they may have to mourn over to their dying day. Another question which should be asked concerning these ''tippling sons" lis : ■■'■-' How much {Socket money did . they give them ? 'i'his question has a larger bearing on' the problem we are considering than many suppose, for a truer taproot of tippling habits c amJrig young men does, nut exist. Not a, few young men, now iv the ranks of the tipplers, would be ranged among the sober ones were it not for the abundance of pocket money they s'/wereßupplied with. . One such' instance I have before me now— a young man bo dear to his •foolish* father that he would have "hiia want for nothing. Supplied with gotd where silver would have been amply sufficient, he squandered it in Strong drink, and so ;aid rhe f'ounda -tion of those drinking h.bi;s w lich led him to an early uea h. J:e was .''"literally slain by "st.ong drink. But . Jbr his father's lavish giving he would ..have been alive to-day, r^r Why ido not parents remember that the honest wants of a lad are but few, ( %M' that beyond true, legitimate wants lie many that are not good and •'true? And Why do they not think i that money supplied beyond the one " > vfili more than probably be expended , on the other? .;,■:. To be continued.