THE DRUNKARD'S HOME.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 11, 5 July 1884, Page 3

THE DRUNKARD'S HOME.

g (advertisement.) a Judge Pitman gives this picture of a h.-me destroyed by the effect of the liquor traffic. After spp; king of the a;r of thrift and of comfort which ■, cluster around the home of a temperate j. man, he says : Introduce the element of drinking 1 , and yon reverse the picture. Year by year the physical p comforts of the house lessen. The - tenement must na row to the means, 1 and locate itself in noisome neig-h---r bortioods. 'I be wife first pinches herself in food and clothing-, but the time soon comes when the children, 3 too, must suffer. The fcauty clothing 1 - becomes ragged. The church and f schooi know the children no longer. . No flowers of beauty adorn, no sound of music cheers such a dwelling 1 The fire goes out on the hearth, and : the light ot hope fades irom the heart. > Soon the very form of a family is L broken up and public charity cares for the scatterd fragments. An American ' home has been blotted out. It is not with private misery that we are here 1 concerned, but with tho effe.t upon ■ the State. If the chief interest of the. • State is in th- character of its citizens, i then no agency U more destructive to its interests than the dran-shop, because the dram-shop i< the great 1 enemy of the home, and it is the character of the home which is not I only the test, buc the efficient factor in an advancing or falling civilization.