The Mother's Promise

Timothy Shay Arthur — known as T.S. Arthur — was an American editor and popular author of fiction and non-fiction works. He became famous for his novels – ‘Ten Nights in a Bar-Room’ and ‘What I Saw There’, - which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. Most of his works were oriented on disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in antebellum America. “The Mother's Promise” is the story told about a lady, Mrs. Herberth, who leaving her house to make a few calls, promised to her little son Eddy to buy a picture-book in return to his good behavior. Eddy waited the mamma, being a good boy, as he had promised, but when Mrs. Herberth returned, Eddy discovered, that mamma forgot about the book…