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28. The Rolling Stone
AFTER the breaking up of our home, my Father went west and took up his work and became fairly successful. Then it was decided that I should be sent to a preparatory school so to a midwestern school I was
27. An Artist’s Concept
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”-HERBERT SPENCER“ THE above quotation is
26. An Alcoholic’s Wife
I HAVE the misfortune, or I should say the good fortune of being an alcoholic’s wife. I say misfortune because of the worry and grief that goes with drinking, and good fortune because we found a new way of living.
25. On His Way
IN EARLY youth I believe I had some of the tendencies which lead to alcoholism. I refer to attempted escapes from reality. At fifteen and sixteen, although free at home to drink small amounts of beer and wine, I drank
24. Hindsight
FIRED! Still, I got a new and better job. One which gave me more time to relax and where drinking was permitted during working hours. People were beginning to criticize my drinking habits and I scoffed at them. Hadn’t I
23. The Car Smasher
DURING the first week of March, 1937, through the grace of God, I ended 20 years of a life made practically useless because I could not do two things. First, I was unable to not take a drink. Second, I
22. Another Prodigal Story
“HELLO, Pal.” “Hello, Buddy!” “Have a drink?” “Got one!” “Come over on the next stool I’m lonesome. Hell of a world.” “You said it, brother,-hell of a world.” “You taking rye? Mine’s gin. God, I’m up against it now!” “How’s
21. Educated Agnostic
WHY go into the drinking pattern that is so much the same with all of us? Three times I had left the hospital with hope that I was saying goodbye forever. And here I was again. The first day there
20. A Close Shave
THE year 1890 witnessed my advent as the youngest of five sons to a fine Christian mother and a hard working blacksmith father. At the age of eight my father used to send me after his pail of beer and
19. Smile With Me, At Me
AT THE age of eighteen I finished high school and during my last year there my studies were dropping away to be replaced by dancing, going out nights, and thinking of a good time as most of the boys of
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