Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story

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ed from comment, and I think the woman is wanting in refinement and delica

such glowing terms, and said that you had sacrificed a splendid opportunity because of some squeamish notions on the subject of temperance, and s

could not

Belle you are a greater e

a moderate drinker are not steady

s would have to refuse almost every young m

at be any greater misfortune th

ast harm in it. On last New Year's day we had more than fifty callers. Ma and I handed wine, to every one of them." "Oh I do wish peopl

rinking in bar rooms and saloons, but I cannot see any harm in hand

egrity than to join with the multitude in doing wrong. You say while you do not approve of young men drinking in bar rooms and saloons, tha

se welfare I am constantly trembling; but I am not afraid that he will take his first glass of wine in a fashionable saloon, or flashy gin palace, but I do dread his entrance into what you call 'our set.' I fear that my brother has received as an inheritance a temperament which

of horrors you can conjure out

etray, that charms at first, but later will

stion. However I do not think Mr. Romaine will feel highly complimented to know that you r

that I would have been a true f

uld have had the coura

y n

ng his feelings. Were you n

d to be faithful to him. I told him that he was drifting where he ought steer, that instead of holding the helm and rudder of his young lif

rm than good; may be you could have effected

him, if even his own mother shrank from him. But I never would consent to [marry any man?], whom I knew to be un[?]steady in his principles and a moderate drinker. If his love for me and re

e given Mr. Rom

he is

ve thrown away a sp

what it means to dwell beneath the shadow of a home cursed by intemperance. I know what it is to s

your face, in your eyes which in spite of yourself, are filled with sudden tea

but I must learn to suffer and be strong, I am deeply pained, it is true, but I do not regret the steps I have taken. The man who claims my lo

t. I don't think because Mr. Romaine drinks occasionally that I

ense. A young man has no more right to sow his wild oats than a young woman. God never made one code of ethics for a man and a

you would find it rather difficult, if yo

fficulty of a duty is not a valid

reformer. I take things as I find them a

al of life? Why Jeanette such

roblems of life never disturb me. I do not think I am called to turn this

utterfly bo

ose that is ple

uish for wealt

to have slave

more than ease, luxury and indulgence, it must mean a

like to meet you and see by comparing notes which of us

have striven to walk will be thickly strewn with thorn; and whether you deserve it or not, life will have for you a mournful earnestness,