. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . BOURBIONI, ETC. Ifj^. 63 •DEALER6HN. AND POISON KILLS! 104 There is one thing about the drink habit that we can easily un-derstand, and there is one thing about it that I suppose we shall neverunderstand. We can realize why the man who is bound by this awfulcurse does not break his bonds; how willingly would he do it if hehelived he could. But, as we have observed, it is a mystery why aboy or a young man, with numberless powerful and convincing proofsbefore him, will deliberately ente


. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . BOURBIONI, ETC. Ifj^. 63 •DEALER6HN. AND POISON KILLS! 104 There is one thing about the drink habit that we can easily un-derstand, and there is one thing about it that I suppose we shall neverunderstand. We can realize why the man who is bound by this awfulcurse does not break his bonds; how willingly would he do it if hehelived he could. But, as we have observed, it is a mystery why aboy or a young man, with numberless powerful and convincing proofsbefore him, will deliberately enter the doorway of a saloon. But oncewithin, all may seem bright and happy and joyous—perhaps the victimis led to believe that father and mother are misinformed, since thereseems to be nothing but gaity there. But he finds, all too soon, thatthe liquor which seemed at first to make little difference in his life, isbecoming his master, and never does he realize it so well as whenhe tries to free himself. Why and how has the saloon changed hislife? The story is a simple one, and he should have seen the reasonbefore he entered, because there it


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