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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1844
Page
8
A reflective poem describes a bright afternoon walk with imagery of dew filled flowers, a calm ocean, and a rainbow. The speaker feels a spiritual worship and inner revelation as the rainbow circles the soul and awakens deep thoughts, ending with mortal stakes and yearning beyond life.
An extended narrative portrays a garret bound man with wife and child, his wasted earnings, and a cat involved in a drunken dare. It describes households ruined by wine shop revels, the toll on workers, and a boy’s witness. Temperance reform would end such patterns and wages for drink.
In Paris an estimated seventeen thousand habitual drunkards rely on wine rather than spirits. The crowded wine shops lure laborers with small temptations, turning Sundays and Mondays into drinking days and driving workers to debt and ruined health. Wages influence drinking as a coping response.
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