Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1912 — HE WAS TAKING NO CHANCES [ARTICLE]

HE WAS TAKING NO CHANCES

Small Boy ? * Precaution* May Have Been Excessive, but He Still Had the Suit. The Rev. John N. Underwood, one of Pittsburg's most eloquent and earnest ministers, said the other dayf\ “In a temperance address in the spring I pointed out that drunken husbands kill, every year, with revolvers and haichets and clubs, 3,600 wives. That 2,500 babies are killed by drunken fathers who crush them in bed. That 90 per cent of all our divorces arejlue to drunkenness.” Mr. Underwood paused, then added: “I heard recently of a little boy to whom a warm and comfortable suit had been given. The boy’s father was a drunkard, and it was feared that the suit would soon find Its way to the pawnshop. But a week after the lad had got the suit he was still wearing it. “ ‘Good for you, Johnny!’ said a city missionary to the little chap. ‘Still wearing your suit, I see/ “m P’ sir ’’ the urcllln explained. sleeflp it' ’’ —Chicago Record-Herald.