Two young husbands begin to stray toward the tavern and the bottle, and their wives answer in opposite ways. One meets the danger with patient, self-forgetting tenderness; the other with coldness and reproach. The author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room sets the two households side by side to show which love wins a man back from ruin.
A characteristic temperance tale from mid-century America, valuable for its picture of domestic ideals and the drink question. Download the free EPUB.