Leisure Hours.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 59, 26 August 1875, Page 7

Leisure Hours.

GOOD TEMPLARISM v. INTET^EBANCE. I Of all the inducements to join the j temperance societies, the following is " the most efficacious we have as yet j come across, and is one which we are assured is found to be irresistible, and ; ,gain.mbre pi-bselyies.'tban .'all the medals, Father Mathew ever distributed. Quaker ladies in the Main Law States, says an American paper/still continue to kiss j the lips- of the young tamperanee men to see if "they have been tempering with liquor. Just imagine, a. beautiful young temperance woman, with all the dignity of. an executive "offi'ser^'and the innocence of a dove, addressing you with the charge of Mr — — , the ladies 'believe you. are in. the habit, of tampering- with liquor,- and they have appointed me to examine .you according to our established rules : are you willing 1 '- You nod- acquiescence. . She gently steps; closer to you, lays bey white arms around your neck, dashes back her raven curls, raises her sylphlike form upon tip-toe, her snowy, heaving bosom against your own, and with her angelic features lit up with a smile as sweet as heaven, places her rich, rosy, pouty, sugar, molasses, lily, rosebud, cream-tart, apple-pie^ peach-pudd-ing, apple dumpling, ginger bread, nectar lips againsb yours, and, Oh Jerusalem hold vs — kisses -you.' Hurrah for the girls and the main law, and death to all opposition.