"If men can't control themselves--" He did not finish the sentence.
"We can at least refrain from putting temptation in their way," answered his wife.
"How ?" "We can refuse to turn our houses into drinking-saloons," replied Mrs.
Birtwell, voice and manner becoming excited and intense.
"Margaret, Margaret, you are losing yourself," said the astonished husband.
"No; I speak the words of truth and soberness," she answered, her face rising in color and her eyes brightening.

"What great difference is there between a drinking-saloon, where liquor is sold, and a gentleman's dining-room, where it is given away?
The harm is great in both--greatest, I fear, in the latter, where the weak and unguarded are allured and their tastes corrupted.

There is a ban on the drinking-saloon.

Society warns young men not to enter its tempting doors.

It is called the way of death and hell.