"NEVER MARRY A MAN "WHO DRINKS."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 95, 22 April 1879, Page 4

"NEVER MARRY A MAN "WHO DRINKS."

The writer who said that, said all in j a few words. It is a motto tbat every ! girl might have written upon the wall ofthe peaceful little chamber wbere fibe dreams ber maiden dreams an - ? often makes np ber mind to marry the 1 dear, good fellow" whose only fault is taking a glass too much now and then, and reform bim after marriage. It is all the more necessary that it should be written there, because tbe men wbo "drink" are by no means tbo worst men in tbe world. We know tbat generous warra-bearied men, men of intellect and men of power, bave found tbe temptation too hard to -withstand, and tbat many a man, otherwise contemptible and wicked, bas never bad "a glass too much" in bis life; although it is always true tbat, under tbe influence of liquor, men bave done deeds tbe very thought of whicb would have sickened tbeir sober souls. If only all men who drink were despicable in all othrr respects, tbere would be little need of the warning ; but a* it is, let every girl remember it, let every mother whisper it. "Whatever bis charms or bis natural virtues may be, no woman can be happy with a drunkard. And he who will not give up drink for bis sweetheart's sake will never give it up to please bis wife. If anything can check a m&n in bis career of dissipation, it will be the dread of losing the girl he loves. Say, v You will never bave me unless you forsake the bottle." and you may conquer him. Failing in that, all your wifely tears would fail al.o. Don't marry bim. Better weep over your dead hopes, and go single to yonr grave, than suffer what a drunkard makes his wife suffer. Never marry a man who drinks, M l-'.-JJ !|»