Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — A New Pen Picture of the Incipien Drinker. [ARTICLE]

A New Pen Picture of the Incipien Drinker.

Men have been told many times that if they took a drink they might commit arson, or robbery, or murder, or some such trivial offense, but no speaker whom we have ever heard has properly set forth another danger more appalling than these, which besets the incipient inebriate, viz.: That he will InevitaMy become a chronic bore and an infernal nuisance. This is. something to shrink from. If the young man who is cultivating a voice for ‘Juice” could see himself depicted as hanging on to the third button of a friend’s coat and swinging to and fro; or bedewing a listener with maudlin tears about nothing; or spitting tobacco juice on the shirt bosom r boots oi a man who never injured him, he would certainly pause in his mad career. If the tempted will try to realize how he will fall asleeo in the daytime in the most convenient places, and how hard it will be to wake him up, or,how hard it will be for two sober men to take him home when he insists on trying to walk on the back of his neck, and what a job it will be for them to pull bis boots off) he will certainly pause before subjecting friendship to such a test. If we consider the interminable stories he will commence, and forget in the middle, the owlish drunken dignity he will assume at times, and the childish readiness to take offence aud tempt somebody to knock his head off, which will characterize him at others, be will surely dress himself in a complete suit cf red ribbons before he will risk such a danger.