Show Why Many Men Drink The dean o Rochester writing to a horticultural I correspondent t recommends recom-mends vegetable growing as conducive to temperance Get a man to take pains with his vegetables says the dean arid you will do more to keep him sober than all the blue ribbons and pledges worn or signed There Is here the practical statement of a fall whlh extends 1 far I beyond the vegetable garden and which is loo often overlooked over-looked Drinking tpr the most Pat is 1 n proof of siothlng so much as a lack of interest in life A worklngman who has no resources outside his round of dally toll roe when it Is over to the publichouse simply because there Is nothing else for him to do to escape being bored Ho Is too tired to read even If he cared much about reading and ho can scarcely be 1 expecled to sit wrapped in meditation Hence eel if his wife be thrifty and his home well kept the temptation is strong to betake himself to the publichouse where at least he can meet and talk with his fellows fel-lows Give him a counterattraction something that he likes and can take a personal Interest Inand the public house at once begins to Jose Its compelling com-pelling uower This has been demonstrated demon-strated over and over again where worklnfjmen have been supplied or have supplied themselves with machinery ma-chinery don Graphic for rational recreation Lon |