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Show HE WAS TAKING NO CHANCES Small Boy's Precautions May Have Been Excessive, but He Still Had the Suit. The Rev. John N. Underwood, one of Pittsburgh's most eloquent and earnest ministers, said the other day: "In a temperance address in the spring I pointed out that drunken husbands kill every year, with revolvers and hatchets and clubs, 3,600 wives. That 2,500 babies are killed by drunken fathers who crush them in bed. That BO per cent of all our divorces are due to drunkenness." Mr. Underwood paused, then added: "I heard recently of a little boy to whom a warm ajid comfortable suit had been given. The boy's father was a drunkard, and it was feared that the suit would soon find its way to the pawnshop. But a week after the lad had got the suit he was still wearing ; It. "'Good for you, Johnny!' said a city missionary to the little chap. 'Still wearing your suit, I see.' " 'Yes, sir,' the urchin explained. 'I sleep in it.'" Chicago Record-Herald. |
