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From Harper's Magazine for February. WHAT WOMEN TALK ABOUT. There is searely a book, humorous or )oetic, satirical or romantic, in the language, that lias not some allusion to the tongue of woman. That" little member" as it is commonly called with respectful gravity, as one speaks of a terrible and potent though invisible agency has commanded the attention of the world so entirely, so many good jokes, so many poor ones, have been made over it that there seeing little left to say on the subject But as long as the language endures there will be written and read Lives of Washington and Napoleon stories about Love are as interesting to-day as they were when Romeo and Juliet first " did" the balcony scene, and will be as long as time lasts. To say all in a curt way, there are some subjects which are inexhaustible, and of these (without intending a joke') is woman's talk. That women can talk, and do talk well, is as true, and as generously acknowledged by their natural enemies, the opposite sex, as that they sometimes talk foolishly and too much. The charm of woman's conversation is well remembered and immortalized by many a wit and memoir-writer. Some philosophers, who have weighed the important subject with deliberation and care, have decided that it was more fascinating than beauty, this power of attractive conversation ; but have, unfortunately for the theory, generally married very handsome women who talked very foolishly. However, the philosopher and his theory should never be called upon to answer for the weakness of the man. Women can talk well, there is no doubt, but do they? In the first place, what do they talk much about ? Firstly, Bit ess. Secondly, Each Other. . Thirdly, Servants. 1 Now the first, rightly considered, is a very pretty subject. The mind can scarcely paint a lovelier picture than that of a room full of pretty girls, all charmingly dressed, talking of colors and costume ; wondering whether an ivy wreath running over white muslin would be becoming, and pausing to remember how beautiful the clematis looked, last summer, running over the wliite trellis up in the country ; or grouping the red poppies together to loop up the yellow crape, remembering the while bow the corn-fields " waved in the wind" suggestive of yellow crape and poppies 1 It reminds one of Diana and her nymphs, of all that is classic and beautiful and this sweet power of dress can not be overrated ; but it also reminds us that this talk is generally so vapid so wanting in all that is fanciful, in the best sense of that word so false in taste that we would ahndst repudiate the subject ; and while we would beg that dress might always be handsome and appropriate, we would almost ask that it might never again be spoken of. 1 . For dress is not now chosen for its becomingness, but for its display ; and in talking of it, women ibrgct that it is dress which ie subordinate to the woman. Woman has become subordinate to dress. To hear beautiful, well-educated, chaiming women spend entire mornings and evenings in wondering why Mrs. Macwhirter wears real point over blue, while Mrs. Macstinger wears Brussels over yellow, is a most painful waste of tlie taste, the fancy, and the wit which does undoubtedly belong to the speakers if they would but speak what they do know. But the subject ascends from the simply foolish and idle into the dangerous, when we approach the second head of our discourse Each other 1 The hand is palsied with its inability to grasp this part of its work. What do not ladies say about each other ? Men dare not, however much they hate each other, talk freely of the vices, fancied or real, of their fellows. The law lays a potent finger on their lips, but none on the mouth of women. It is too unfortunately true that our lives in the present day offer but few objects of competition to woman, and at the same time woman is as ambitious as man. She has all the desire to conquer worlds, but no worlds to conquer. After being educated as well, if not better than most men, she enters the world and finds nothing to strive for but the attention of gentlemen, pre-eminence in dress and style, and the dangerous

distinction of being much talked about. These are her wordly prizes : for these she must arrive, for these she must exert her talents, her charms, and all of these ef forts are degrading. For we do not count the probability of her falling in love, wisely and well, marrying the man most suited to her, as one which is so common as to be other than an exception to the rule : for even in this happy country, where every one marries (it is supposed) his or her unbiased choice, the thirst tor distinction and pre-emi' nence is so intense that worldly marriages are almost as common as in the older countries. But for the sake of the argument we will take the fortunate exception, and show how even then woman is exposed to the temptations of envy and detraction. She loves and is beloved so far she is safe ; but her day must be spent (taking the average) in contact with her servants, in small and uninteresting duties which give her mind no food, no occupation. If she has ever in mind that she is keeping in order a machine which, if allowed to get rusty, will creek horribly and disar range a vast edifice if she can remember that if she leaves this pin unset, or that wheel untumed, the consequence will be fearful, she may go on with a sem blance ot content to the end, and, remembering Milton's glorious line, : . " They also serve who only stand and wait," may look with calmness on the . sacrifice of powers which she knows are " too good for the place," and add to her other virtues tlie subumest ot all, cheenul patience : but if she is less great than this (which fre quently happens), she is annoyed and fretful, she must have some amusement, she finds a sort of relief in dress and company, and iilas, in talk : and it is vexatious to " see some women succeeding, you don t know how. and the tongue once loosed it is a difficult steed to rein in, and hence scandal and its honors so acrid and intense that the poor subject may well say, , ; " So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse ; all good to me is lost : . . Evil, be thou my good." " What meannesses have not women committed under the influence of that most belittling passion, " a desire to succeed in society !" What detraction and even falsehood is not pressed into the service 1 and yet, re move this temptation and place this same woman in a position where she is called on to succor distress, and she mounts again to her original high position 1 She will not shrink from the night-watches by the sick-bed. She will not forgot the poor she still prays ; but would that she could remember to hold her tongue I So long as society is organized as it now is, particu larly in our new and energetic country, these passions will be aroused. Beauty, talent, success will always be followed by envy and detraction as by shadows. But somewhat of the fell malignity of passions can be softened by simply not expressing what one feels. An idea spoken is a much stronger thing than an idea thought. The hatreds that we tell of are much harder plants to weed out than the hatreds which, in silence and in sorrow, we endeavor to free ourselves from. In this very city of out's thousand of instances daily occur where, if one or two words had been left unspoken, the ill feeling would have died away; but the words were spoken, and their " echo is endless !" One lady, feeling a mortal aversion to another lady, goes to the house of a friend on some idle pretense, and introduces the subject of the general bad nature of Lady No. 2. Fortunately the friend is a true one, and is not influenced, and stops the scandal by causing Lady No. 2 to clear herself. But those little words of Lady No. 1 resound far and wide, and affect whole fami

lies ; dissensions grow up apace, and instead of an ill feeling between two people, there comes ill feelings between two hundred. Now if Lady No. 1 had staid at home that morning, and had not mid a word, the ill feeling might have died a natural death ; some future day she and No. 2 might have been friends; but now a broad gulf lies between them, and nothingbut time and the influence of a higher Power can bring them together. Seroantsl Servants! " If you knew the trouble I have had with Bridget P' The most " ilegant pisantry in the world" have to answer for a great deal. If they have done nothing more, they have lowered the tone of conversation in our ladies. We suppose, if we could enter all the handsome, well-lighted dining-rooms of our prosperous city this evening, we should find nine-tenths of the women telling their poor tired husbands of the shortcomings of Catherine, and Mary, and Lucy, and Margaret, while he would rather hear almost any thing else, even of the unpaid bills. One very neat, methodically housekeeper once took her husband up into the fourth story of her house, and showed him a table which had not been dusted. " There," said she ; ' can you imagine a deeper grade of vice than that Margaret is guilty of? I have told her to dust that tablo every day since she lias been here" " My dear," said the husband, solemnly, " I have today been cheated out of five thousand dollars, I have had a forgery brought to my attention, two murderers were brought into Court before my face. I looked at them with horror, but any thing like the guilt of Margaret remains for me yet to see 1" ; The solemnity of these remarks, we have reason to believe, checked the volubility of one lady for some time. We all have very noble sentiments about makinc

home happy, no doubt ; we all wish to make the " fire side, and so iorth, attractive, and perhaps we succeed : but then again perhaps we might succeed better ; at any rate, it would not make the fire on the domestic altar any loss bright if we weeded our conversation of these three topics, particularly the latter. AVomen can talk well and wittily of the events of the day, pt music, ot. all the arts in fact most women have a gift that way, and can describe a picture, a play, a public speaker, better than men; and it being their peculiar and proud province to make the world more agreeable to man, how can they throw away the immense privilege ? Man is the king of this world ; he should have a royal consort. One may say that a good temper would be the cure of all tho evils herein described. True enough, if one were never annoyed by a dilitory dress-maker, or an unbecoming dress, or no dresses at all, or milled bv a slanderous report, or worn out with poor servants if tnese ins ot me lounci all serene and composed, one should be simply perfect, and nothing more need be said or written ; but we have not attained to that dull level of perfection. To be thoso " faultless monsters whom the world ne'er saw" would be worse than to mount the perpetual hobbies of dress, parties, scandal, servants ; but greatest virtues being faults overcome, we can improve very greatly without running much risk ol becoming perlect. Women, when together, do not talk much of love, except in quiet parlors in the country. There little groups, or more often two, speculate on the great subjceu a. nc BeiiLiiimuuu wuuiau is ntpiuiy uisappeanng from the face of the earth. The busy life of cities, the wonderful exertions our women have to make to attain even the poor prizes which the world offers them, pre' eludes sentiment. Perhaps that is well. The Bosajuatilda school was not a good one, but it might be worse; and some women of unoccupied minds and hearts have found a worse in the novels of Balzac and his contemporaries. But we have little to fear from this ; a few may feel the vitiating influence, but the many are too busy and too pure. The individual who always " Finds some work For idle hands to do," according to Dr. Watts, would seem to find his occu pation gone in this country. We have simply skimmed the surface of society, and have quoted the style of talk of many women. Far be it from our intention to say that no women talk bet ter. J. he imago ot many a beloved mother, many good wife, many an attractive and most admirable pe son, rises up to silence such an assertion. But we be lieve it not unfair to say that the conversation which is cultivated in fashionable circles, and even in the more exclusive home circles, is, among women, flat. foolish, and most unprofitable. Its chief spice is abuse, unci mat is a very poor spice to use. oau, as we Da fore said, " Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls must dive below." Straws sometimes show which way the wind blows, however ; and there is no surer way of becoming envi ous, flippant, and undevout than to talk as if we were. Ihere is, in a hbrary in Cincinnati, a statue of Si lence, with finger on hp. The effect ot the statue is said to be electrical. Every one who looks at it imme diately stops talking. If we could have ono in our parlors how admirable the effect would be 1 To be in the full tide of furious talk, to look up, and see this marble finger perpetually raised ! " Come, then, expressive Silence 1" We all know some people who say more by saying nothing at all than all the rest of the world achieve by talking perpetually. .Let us then cultivate, as one stetoward reformation, the " great talent of silence ;" and as another step, let us discard the three most fascinating subjects to woman, and the three most detestable ones to man. We have not touched at all the possibility of making these subjects interesting and instructive. Jrerhani there exists that Circe from whose lips even the evil doings of servants may come clothed in golden utterances ; but she is indeed a Circe, and to be avoided for her unfortunate sisters, for they would only contract her faults without her fascination, and that result we have all seen and felt. Nor can the remedy be so readily pointed out as jl - Jf T. . .1 . , ., , f 1 me uisease. xui mat we leave, witn mucn confidence, to the discretion of the fair speakers. Our women find out very readily what is becoming in all other senses of the word. Let them find out, as undoubtedly they wiU, what is most so in conversation. Cost op Maintaining Public Schools. A writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer has collated from the reports on public instruction, the cost, per scholar, Al. ,1 TI " tl. oi maintaining public scnoois. xie gives me ioilowing table Cleveland. .... .$40 45 New York.. $12 52 St. Louis. ........ 12 57 Baltimore 21 59 Philadelphia. . . 15 83 Boston 15 73 Koxbury 15 03 Chillicothe .. 14 63 Cincinnati 14 16 Chicago.. ...... 14 00 Zanesville 13 64 Dayton 13 57 Brooklyn.... 12 Bufialo 11 Oswego 10 Bangor. .. i . .. .. 9 76 61 01 76 Indianapolis 9 71 Springfield, Mass. .. 9 23 Rochester 8 97 Danvers 11 83 Providence. ..... Id 02 Total average $ 1 1 4 Rochester, it will be seen, presents the lowest figure in the list The story that Lola Montes was about to be married to Prince Sulkowsky is contradicted by the gentleman himself in a letter to a friend in Albany. He says he he is living on his farm, near Lowville, N, Y., with his wife and family, and is quite indignant at the use of his name in sucn a connection.

From the NorUiwentim Christian Adrocnttt. EXPERIMENTS WITII SORGHUM. BY COL. T. A. MOHltlS.

Kditor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate: Dkar Sir: In fulfillment of my promise, I now give you a detailed statement of my operations, during the past season, in the culture and manulacture ot the Chinese sugar-cane. About the first of June, I planted two acres, in drills about four feet apart, running north and south, planting one seed every eight or ten inches. The soil was not rich, but light and sandy. I hoed and ploughed twice. The early part of the season here was rather wet, and as the cane at first grows slowly, much of it was drowned out by the water standing in the furrows. Before the cane was sufficiently large to allow the use of the plough, it required a great deal of labor with the hoe, to prevent the w!idi from taking it Its growth, after being ploughed, was very rapid, and most of it was ripe about the middle of October. From two to five full-sized canes grew from each seed ; perhaps the average would be three. Tho average hight was about ten feet, and the average diameter about one and a half inches at the ground. By way of experiment, I pulled off the tops from a portion as soon as they were in bloom, and allowed new seed-heads to grow. 1 his course 1 had seen recommended, with a view to increasing the saccharine matter; yet it the juice was any better, I was unable to perceive it, but found the cane more troublesome to strip, as new heads had started at most of the joints. , ' My experience and observation induce tho belief, that the best mode of growing the cane, is to thorough ly break up and harrow the ground, then cross off at right augles, with something that will merely mark the surface, giving hills three and a half or four feet apart Allow about six seeds to grow in each hill, and pull off all suckers that come from the root too late to npen as soon as the mam stalk, and strip, from time to time, all heads that make their appearance at the joints ot the stalks. This method of planting will allow the use of the cultivator earlier, with less liability to cover up the young cane, diminish the amount of hoeing, and, I think, would require but little if any more labor than a corn crop. By pulling off the suckers that start too late to ripen, and the seed heads that appear at the joints, I think the vigor and perhaps the quality of the growing stalks would be increased. J.0 express the mice trom the cane, 1 used one Ot Hedges & i ree s cast-iron horse-power milfs, consist ing of three vertical rollers, lourteen inches long and twelve inches diameter. It required two horses, work ing alternately, to run it, producing about forty gal lons of juice per hour, but capable, when rushed, of grinding one gallon per minute. 1 attempted to boil the mice in ordinary iron kettles, arranged in a furnace, in tlie way usually adopted here to manufacture maple sugar, but tound it impossible to avoid burning the sirup against their sides. 1 then procured tour pans, with cast-iron bottoms and wood en sides. Three of them were two and a half feet wide and three and a half feet long, with sides four teen incher deep; and one five feet long and same width and depth as tho others. 1 placed three ot these pans in one furnace, made of brick, and placed the largest one in a separate furnace at right angles to the hrst 1 he smoke-stacks ot the two were placed together. The bottom of the large pan was put on a level with the top of the small ones, so as to draw out its contents, by a stop-cock, into the adjoining small one, With this arrangement, I could concentrate about four hundred gallons of juice each day, consuming about three-lourths ot a cord ot wood. The mode that I adopted in making the sirup, after various experiments, was to nil the large pan with tho iuice from the mill, then heat it to not quite the boilmg poini previously nuking in it wiiaicvcr x uesigned to neutralize the acid and assist in clarifying; then, as soon as the heat had caused a thick scum to rise to the top, it was skimmed off, and the skimming contin ued until the scum ceased to rise, the juice being suf fered to cool alter the skimming commenced. J. his juice was then drawn into the next pan, passing through a flannel bag, ana dipped lorward into the other two, and the concentration continued, by boiling slowly, until all the greenish scum had been removed. When the quantity was sufficiently diminished, the contents of the two rear pans were transfered to the forward one, and they were filled again from the large pan. In the. lorward pan the boiling was made as rapid as possible, until sirup was produced. I had heard of various articles that had been used to improve the color and taste of the juice, and produce a clear and good-flavored sirup. I experimented with nearly all that I had heard of milk of lime, limewater, soda, ivory-black, charcoal, alum, borax, alcohol, milk, and eggs were all tried in various combinations, the details of which would be too tedious to relate. I shall, therefore, only give two methods by which I succeeded best , 1st. I filtered the juice, as it came from the mill, through finely-powdered charcoal, placed in a barrel with a false bottom, covered with blankets, in the manner used in rectifying whisky.' The juice thus filtered was boiled in the usual way, and produced a sirup I think equal to any that I ever saw. This process, however, I found to require too much labor and time. The charcoal soon became impervious, and had to be renewed, rendering its use too troublesome and expensive when a large amount of sirup was to be made. . '2d. After filling the large pan from the mill, I mixed in it a sufficient quantity of lime-water to nearly neutralixe the acid in the juice, using litmus-paper as a test. I also mixed, at the same time, about three pounds of ivory-black and one half dozen of eggs to one hundred gallons of juice, stirring all together thoroughly. The juice was then heated to near the boiling point, and the fire then removed from the furnace and the juice not disturbed until sufficiently cool to be in a quiescent state. The scum was then removed, and tlie remainder drawn off through a flannel bag into the other pans for boiling. Before boiling, a small quantity of dissolved borax was added, after which it was boded moderately and skimmed, until the quantity was evaporated to about one third of its bulk; then the boiling was as rapid as possible, until simp was produced. By this process, I have made an article which is very generally considered nearly, if not quite, equal to the best of the golden sirup in our market I made two efforts, both unsuccessful, to produce sugar. I suppose that my want of success was mainly owing to the tact that the cane had all been trozon before I attempted to make sugar. I have never seen any Sorghum sugar, but have heard of several persons who have made it Among others, a gentleman living in Evansville, in this state, wrote me that, from sixteen gallons of juice (the last that he had) he had made between ten and eleven pounds of granulated sugar by following the process given in the U. S. Dis pensatory, page 63d. . . : . , . I worked only a small amount of cane before we had severe frost. The effect of the frost was to diminish the quantity of juice; also to neutralize, to some extent, its acid properties, and slightly increase its den sity, as indicated by Beaume's saccharometcr. The juice of my unripe cane, before frost, marked seven degrees, Jieaume; that ot the ripe cane, nine degrees. After the frost, the juice marked nine degrees, I tested juice from several fields in this vicinity, and invariably found that the small, Vwroughly ripe cane produced the strongest juice- the large, vigorous growth was very generally inferior from one to two degrees. I also found that the bottom of tlie stalk was not as sweet as the middle, nor the middle as sweet as

the top. The juice from each third of the stalk indicated one degree more for the top third than the middle, and this one more than the bottom. Myself and friends have made about 1,500 gallons of sirup. My cane yielded 225 gallons of very thick sirup to the acre requiring about six gallons of juice to one trallon of sirun. That rrrown bv others, vicldprl

at the rate ot 320 gallons per acre. 1 think 300 gallons may be relied on here as a fair average crop. It cost almut twelve cents per gallon to make my simp, estimating the fodder and seed to pay for the labor of cultivation, and not allowing anything for interest on the cost of tho null and boiling fixtures. I made no attempt to ascertain the amount of fodder and seed yielded per acre, but have fed both also the ripe and unripe stalks to horses, cows, and hogs. They eat every part of the cane greedily, and, so far as I observed, seemed to thrive on this food equally with any other. Whilst making sirup, I fed the scum to my hogs, but on one occasion suffered it to remain in a barrel about twenty-four hours before feeding, when I found vinous fermentation had commenced, and it produced its legitimate effects making some twenty hogs "gh riously drank," when, as might be inferred, they ex-, hibited the same noisy and pugnacious characteristics that two-legged animals delight in under similar circumstances. Indianapolis, Dec. 26, 1857. i " EVENING HOURS FOR MECHANICS. WThat have evening hours done for mechanics who had only ten hours' toil ? Harken to the following facts: One of the best editors the Westminster Review could ever bost, and one of the must brilliant writers of the passing hour, was a cooper in Aberdeen. One of the editors of the London Daily Journal was a banker in Elgin; perhaps the best rcjiorter of the London Times was a weaver in Edinburg; the editor of the Witness was a stone mason. One of the ablest ministers in London was a blacksmith in Dundee, and another was a watchmaker in Banff'. The late Dr. Milne, of China, was a herd-boy in Ryone. The principal of the London Missionary Society's College, at HongKong, was a saddler in Huntley, and one of the best missionaries that ever went to India, was a tailor in Keith. The leading maehinest on the London and Birmingham Railrca 1, with 700 a year, was a mechanic in Glasgow, and perhaps the very richest ironfounder in England was a working man in Morap. Sir James Clark, her Majesty's physician, was a druggist in Banff. Joseph Hume was a Bailor first, and then a laborer at the mortar and pestle at Montrose. Mr. McGregor, the member from Glasgow, was a poor boy in Rosshire. James Wrilson, the member from Westbury, was a plowman in Haddington; and Arthur Anderson, the member for Orkney, earned his bread by the sweat of his brow in the Ultima Thule. These men, however, spent their leisure hours in acquiring useful knowledge. They could not have reached the eminence they did hanging around hose and enginehouses, or wasting hours away in taverns. C3T A Mississippi reader renders an old story so neatly in a new relation that we have enjoyed it much : "The Union Bank Bond question has been mixed up with every election in Mississippi for the last fifteen or sixteen years, and ought to be pretty much used-up by this time. At the last Governor's election the Democratic candidate for the office again brought it in. His opponent, also a Democrat, but a Know Nothing besides, replied to the allusion, that he had supposed the Bond question to be dead and gone, and he never exEected to have to discuss it again. He was reminded, y his opponent's bringing it up again and again, of an anecdote m point. In the part of the country where he was raised there was an old Baptist man who had a son in training for the pulpit The father thought him the smartest boy that ever came out, and he was anxiously waiting for the time to come when he would blaze on the world as a splendid preacher. At length the young man was licensed, and on the first Sabbath of his appearance in the pulpit his father was present, and heard him deliver a sermon from the text, ' And Peter's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.' The old man was delighted with the sermon, and praised it to the skies. Next Sunday the young man preached in a neighboring town, and his father went with him to listen to another discourse from the same eloquent lips. His son announced his text : 4 And Peters's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.' The father was mortified to hear from his promising son the same sermon ; and on the following Sabbath he went still farther to hear him again, when, lo 1 the youthful preacher rose and read his text: ' And Peter's wife's mother lay sick of a fever!' The old man could hold in no longer ; but before another word escaped his son's lips he cried out, 4 1 say, my son, ain't that old woman dead yet?' " The speaker went on to apply the anecdote to the Bond question, which seemed to como up so often he thought it high time it was dead, and buried, and forgotten." 1 A GOOD THING. The following morceau of good sense, docked out in a humorous garb, has a genuine ring of good metal in it, which cannot fail to please our readers. There is something amusing in the way the Arkansas man brings in the slang terms of the card table ; as the most natural way in which to express his parting advice to his son. The advice, translated into the ordinary language of caution and warning, is about as good as we ever encountered : AN ARKANSAS FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON. Bob, you are about leaving home for strange, parts. You're going to throw me out of the game and go it alone. The odds is agin you Bob, but remember always that industry and perseverance are the winning cards ; they are tho "bowers." Book laming and all that sort of thing will do to fill up with, like small trumps, but you must have the bowers to back 'em, else they ain't worth shucks. If luck runs agin you pretty strong, don't cave in and look like a sick chicken on a rainy day, but hold your head up and make believe you're flush of trumps ; they won't play so hard agin you. I've lived and traveled around some Bob, and I have found out that as soon as folks thought you held a weak hand, they'd buck agin you strong. So, when you're sorter weak, keep on a bold front, but play cautious ; be satisfied with a p'int. Many's the hand I've seen euchred 'cause they played for too much. Keep your eyes well skinned, Bob ; don't let 'em "nig" on you; reccollect the game lays as much with the head as with the hands. Be temperate ; never get drunk, for then no matter how good your hand, you won't know how to play it, ; both bowers and the ace won't save you, for there's sartin' to be a " miss deal," or something wrong. And another thing, Bob, (this was spoken in a low tone) don't go too much on the women ; queens is kinder poor cards ; the more you have of 'em, the worse for you ; you might have three and narry trump. I don't say discard 'em all ; it you get hold of one that's a trump, it's all good, and there's sartin' to be one out o four. And above all, Bob, be honest; never take a man's tricks wot don't belong to you, nor "slip" cards, or "nig," for then you can't Took your man in the face, and when that's the case there's no fun in the game, it's regular 'cut throat.'So now, Bob, farewell, remember wot I tell you, andvou'll be sure to win, and if you don't, sarves vou right if you get "skunked." The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against the vice than was ever preached on it. :

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