Temperance

 A story about Frankie made the family rounds and here it is.  You have to know the whole crew was for Temperance, and no doubt all had signed the Pledge and heard of the pitfall of the Demon Rum.  Well, Mrs. [Alvira] Clapp was very sick, declining, no appetite; Frankie was waiting on her as best she could, but at last a doctor was called in.  After his examination, he recommended two or three tablespoons of wine be given his 90-year-old patient.  Frankie heard this prescription with mixed feelings.  "But, doctor," she remonstrated, "don't you think it may start a bad habit?"