Show ITer edity in 1 i A friend told me that in hla his youth he lived in a county in which the gentlemen were much addicted to hard drinking and that he too frequently took part in their revels several of 0 his bla sons born at that time although subsequently educated in a very different t moral atmosphere turned out strongly addicted to inebriety whereas the children born after he had removed to a large town and formed more correct habits iero aero not the victim alma Os of this propensity another individual of superior talents described to roe me the wild and mischievous revelry in which he indulged at the time of his marriage and congratulated himself oa his subsequent domestication and moral improvement ills eldest son born in his riotous days notwithstanding a strictly moral education turned out a personification ot of tho the fathers actual condition at that time and his hia younger children were more moral in proportion as they were removed from the period of vicious frolics combe constitution ot of man |