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A young lady will be very unsafe in marrying a young man who uses ardent
spirits, either temperately or intemperately, because more women have been
rendered wretched on account of drunken husbands, than by anything
else. When Lavinia and Laura and Margaret, were led by their husbands to
Hymen's altar, their husbands only took a little. Lavinia was the mother
of
four children, when the sheriff sold the last bed she had, for her
husband's drams. Laura had three lovely babes, when her husband was
carried
off to jail, and she was left without bed, bread or home. Margaret had two
children when their sottish and brutish father went to an untimely grave,
and she and her babes were cast upon the world penniless. Beware young
ladies of him who can drink a dram even in a week. Don't marry a reformed
drunkard, as a man hardly ever gets clear of this awful disease. If you
want to be miserable marry a man who drinks, who takes a little, and you
are more likely to have the above enjoyments than in marrying any other
character. If a man cannot give up his dram, he can sacrifice the
happiness or property of any woman by taking a little.
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From the
New England Farmer and Horticultural Journal
VIII, no. 14 (October 23, 1829).
Edited by the Museum Education Department at Old Sturbridge Village
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