74. THE FIRST GLASS OF WINE.

 

with a will. Her good children helped her

as much as they could, and so she managed

- to pay her rent, and to procure food.

‘¢ Still she had troubles that were hard to
bear. No home can be happy or peaceful
that has drunkenness for its inmates. The
intemperate member of the family poisons
the happiness of all the others. It was so
here. The drunken husband. often destroyed
in a fit of fury, that which it had taken
them days to garn by their combined i in-—
dustry, and very bitter was the feeling. in
those youthful breasts as the destruction was.
accomplished. ye

‘On one occasion in particular, when they |
had been denying themselves for months in
order to save up enough to buy a small stove
to keep the room warm in winter, and when

he came in the first day it was set up, and