Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 315, 3 November 1891 — A Word to the Boys. [ARTICLE]

A Word to the Boys.

Water is the strongest drink. It' drives mills; it is the drink of lion and horaes > and Samson never men be teetotalers, if only for eeonomy's sake. The beer money will soon build a house. If what goes into the mash-tub went„into the kneading-trough, families would be better fed and better taught. If what is spent in waste were only saved agamst a rainy day, workhouses would never bc built. The man who spends his monev with the puhliean, and thinks*the landlord's bow and lk How <lo ye do, my good fellow mean true respect, is a perfect simpleton. We don't light fires for thc horring ; s comfort y but to roast him. Aen do not keep pot-houses for labores&' good; if they do, they certainly miss their aim. Why, thenv should people drink u for the good of tlie house ?'' If 1 spend money for thc good of any house, let it be ray own, anel not the laiKlhml'i?. It is a bad well 111 to whieh you must put water; and the beer-house is a bad friend, because it takes your ail, and leaves you noth!ng but head* aches. He who calls those his friends who let him sit ;tnd ,drin& by the hour together y is ignorant, very ignorant. Why lled Lions, and Tigers, and and \ r nltures are all creatures of and wliy do so many put thcinselves witliin the power of their jaws and talous? Such as drinks and live riotously, and wonder whv their: faces are ao blotchy and their pockets so bare, would leave off if the had two grains ofwisdom. They m'gtit as well ask an elin-treo for pears,as loose habits for health and *-ealth. Those who go to the puhlie house for hapiness, climb a tree t» find fish.—Rrr. C. 7/. Bpurgeon.