TIPPLING SONS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 70, 22 November 1884, Page 3

TIPPLING SONS.

(advertisement.) (Continued.) r The Bad carapanion symptom is an ' unmistakable one.- Yott:;g- men ar^ notorious corrupted of young- m-en. ! .'ndeed, with their mockery, tbrir ■ laughter, their appeals, their wlieeii- • ling ways, their fais.-; views of manliness, their success is oniy to . apparent. They succeed too often [ whereievery other agency fails. Let parents remember that a fast youn^ m.an is hand and glove with strong--1 drink, thit strong drink is a part and parcel of his existence, and caa no more be severed from his iastness than a suu's ray can he severed from ! the sun. Let them remember, i.oo. that no sun of theirs can c >11 such a man friend without being Triendiy to ! his fastness as well. It is no trifling symptom when a young man's companions are unsteady. Can anyonn , touch pitch without bring dtfiled ? Such are a few of the symptoms which ought to pur. a watchful parent on the alert. Heeded and acted upon, how many a son ini^bt have been saved from the drunkard's doom ! Let me a?k another question. Have parents realised suffici"ntiy the peril of idleness ? Some certainly have not. Some have deliberately introduced their sons into the idlest of existences. They have launche 1 their boys into a busy world with their haniis in thrir pockets. Having- no need to work for v living, thc-y shall, butterfly like, llir from flower to flower, and e"j ■•}' themselves. They shall h'. gentle men. independent, well-t'i-do, donothing men ot the world. Jfour father 1 they little think that •of all men thn idle oaes are nearest the devil's clutches. oh ! fathurs^ la: hers, you ar.>. endowing your boys with a gilded curse. Think of it, Alas ! ala.s ! thut a father's hand should send them down s.) swiftly. '• I had nothing else to do — and so 1 drank." " Tune hung- b/javi y on my hands The hours tiragged slowly' and pain fully — and so, to pass away the tnno, I urauk." To be co 7i tinned.