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April 28, 1917
Ventnor News
Ventnor City, Atlantic County, New Jersey
What is this article about?
Mrs. Lloyd George shares a story at a women's welfare meeting about a Yorkshire collier's wife who struggles to guide her drunken husband past multiple pubs on the way home from the pit.
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Too Many "White Hosses."
Addressing a woman's welfare meeting recently, Mrs. Lloyd George pointed a moral, with a quaintly pathetic little story. It concerned a Yorkshire collier's wife, who each Saturday made a practice of calling at the pit where her husband worked, with a view to getting him safely home, and, by persuasion and tact, preventing him getting too much drink en route. The poor woman, however, was fain to confess that she seldom succeeded, and asked why, she replied as follows:
"Aw, ye see, lady, Ah might get Bill all reight past t' White Hoss, but, don't yer see, lady, theer's th' King's Head, an' t' Brahn Coo, an' t' Blue Pig-- seven other White Hosses, so to speyke -afore Bill gets dahn that hawf-mile to ahr haase."
Addressing a woman's welfare meeting recently, Mrs. Lloyd George pointed a moral, with a quaintly pathetic little story. It concerned a Yorkshire collier's wife, who each Saturday made a practice of calling at the pit where her husband worked, with a view to getting him safely home, and, by persuasion and tact, preventing him getting too much drink en route. The poor woman, however, was fain to confess that she seldom succeeded, and asked why, she replied as follows:
"Aw, ye see, lady, Ah might get Bill all reight past t' White Hoss, but, don't yer see, lady, theer's th' King's Head, an' t' Brahn Coo, an' t' Blue Pig-- seven other White Hosses, so to speyke -afore Bill gets dahn that hawf-mile to ahr haase."
What sub-type of article is it?
Family Drama
What themes does it cover?
Family
Misfortune
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Collier's Wife
Pub Temptation
Drinking Prevention
Yorkshire Dialect
Domestic Struggle
What entities or persons were involved?
Mrs. Lloyd George
Yorkshire Collier's Wife
Bill
Where did it happen?
Yorkshire
Story Details
Key Persons
Mrs. Lloyd George
Yorkshire Collier's Wife
Bill
Location
Yorkshire
Story Details
A Yorkshire collier's wife tries to escort her husband Bill home from the pit each Saturday without him drinking at the pubs along the half-mile route, but fails due to the many temptations like the White Hoss, King's Head, Brahn Coo, and Blue Pig.