The Drunk, Second Stone was used to illustrate an article written by Mabel
Potter Daggett in support of the Volstead Prohibition Act, and was published in the
February 1924 issue of Good Housekeeping. The article presented case
histories of alcoholics and abusive behavior related to drink. Although Bellows'
lithograph is more than a little melodramatic, his composition owes a great deal to
late nineteenth-century notions of soft womanhood versus strong, aggressive man.
