"NEVER MARRY A MAN WHO DRINKS."

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3156, 31 March 1879, Page 3

"NEVER MARRY A MAN WHO DRINKS."

. Th,e writer who said that, said all im a few words. It is a motto that every girl might have written upon the wall of the peaceful little chamber where she dreams her maiden dreams and often make up her mind to marry the " dear, good fellow " whose only fault is taking a glass too much now and then, and reform him after ;.ijMi ? ge.:i ■< T '-; •.■.■•-!-.l .. ; mt is all the more necessary that it should be written there, because the men who " drink " are by no means the worst men in the world; We know that generous warm Hearted men, men of intellect and men of power, have found the temptation too hard to withstand, and that many a man, otherwise contemptible and wicked, has never had " a glass too much " in his life; although it is also true that, under the influence of liquor, men have done ■ deeds the very thought of wbich would 1 have sickened their sober souls. If only all men who drink were despicable in all other respects, there would be little need oT^he warning; but as it is, let eveJT, girl remember it, let every mother whisper it. Whatever his charms or his natural virtues may be, no woman can be happy with a drunkard. And he who will not give up drink for his sweetheari's sake will never give it up to please his wife. If anything can check a man in his career of dissipation, it will be the dread of losing the girl he loves. Say, " You shall never have me unless you forsake . the bottle," and you may conquer him. Failing in that, all your wifely tears would fail also. ' Don't marry him. Better weep over your dead hopes, and go single to your grave, than suffer what a drunkard makes bis wife suffer. Never marry a man Who drinks.