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Show HE WAS TAKING NO CHANCES Small Boy's Precautions May Have Been Excessive, but He Still Hsd the Suit. The Rev. John N. Underwood, one of Pittsburgh's most eloquent and earnest ministers, said tbe othsr day: "In a temperance address In the spring I pointed out that drunken husbands kill every year, with revolvers and batcheta and cluba, 3,600 wlvea. That 2,600 babies are killed by drunken fathers who crush them In bed. That 10 per cent of all our divorcee are due to drunkenness." Mr. Underwood paused, then added: "I heard recently of a little boy to whom a warm and comfortable suit hd been given. The boy's father was a drunkard, and It waa feared that the suit would soon find Its way to the pawnshop. Hut a week after the lad ' had get the suit he was still wearing It. " 'Rood for you, Johnny!' said a city mlaslonary to thi little cbap. 'Still wearing your aiMt, I see.' "'Yea, sir the urchin explained. 1 sleep In It." Chicago Record Herald. |
