Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-12-02
CAN YOU AFFORD Irr

Can you afford to work hard all day, and read
study, or court the vagaries o. society nearly al
night, thus wasting your vitality, exhaustins
your nervous system, and bringing on premature
disease, decay, and old age
Can you AFFORD to read line print with q pool
night I'm rail car, where the motion disturhs the
proper focus Of vision, thus we akening Your eve,
so rs nearly TO deprive You of the power to use
them either In reading or in the daily duties OF
to pay, you may be obliged to wear glasses ten on
fifteen years sooner than you otherwise would
can you afford thus TO spoil your eyes to save a
little time fs t-t'
Can you afford TO eat hastily, and then rush to
study or business, Withdrawing the nervous
energy from the digestive system 10 the brain
and muscles, and thus inducing dyspepsia, in a
Few years at most, TO scourge, and haunt and
make you miserable for years, or for life ?
Can you afford TO hive on rich and highly-sea-
soned food, eat champagne Shippers, because an
artificial appetite is thus grstified, rendering
govt, dyspepsia, or apopexy, in the middle OF
life, almost a certainty?
Can you afford to commit suicide through the
Indulgence OF appetite and passion, adopting the
fools motto, :" A short life and a merry one 2"
Can you afford to keep your brain boiling hot
IN reading sensational novels, thus unbalaicine
and rendering morbid your mental and physical
Can you afford to indulge in fast living. dress
ing beyond your means, driving livery horses, or
Keeping a horse yourself, when YOUR income is
not adequate to such expenses
Can you afford to smoke and chew tobacco,
thus spending from five to fifty dollars a month,
HJu1lnR your nervous system, ana pefVerI-
ing your whole constitution. and thereby trans
hitting to children a weakened constitution,
thus making them puny invalids for life?
Can you afford to burn out your nervous sys-
TEN and demoralize your whole character by
the use OF alcoholic liquors?
Can you afford TO indulge in habits of specula-
ton, gambling, and Sother tricky and mean
modes of making money?
Can you afford to make money at the expense
of yOur manhood, your morals, your health, your
just respectability, and your integrity?
Can you afford to gain even the whole world
and thereby make Of yourself a moral wreck?
Can you afford, for the sake of momentary
e.S;:sefGcnt, to waste. your youthful preparatory
years, when by study you should become a
scholar, or by industry either tradesman or a
useful artisan
Can you afford to rob your mind to cIothe your
back with silks and satins, and crafty mere
Can you afford to be tricky and thereby de-
fraud your employer OF the just services you
owe him, even though you do get your pay, thus
making yourself moral bankrupt?
Can you afford to be otherwise than upright,
truthful, faithful, temperate, courteous, and in
all respects correct?
Pupils in schools sometimes fancy they are
doing a smart thing by deceiving the teacher,
that they may play instead of study Appren-
tees often neglect their duty for fun and amuse-
ment, and fail to learn their trade, which Is a
lifelong damage TO them. Many people do
wrong knowingly, and thus mar their moral
worthy, and despicable; and, because the world
don't know il, they think they have done them
selves no harm; but they carry the moral scar of
wrong doing through life. Can one afford to
"Henesty is the best pohey?'' ODD
Reader, stop and consider whether what you
are doing, or what You propose to do. will pay;
whether you can afford to do it. Cline is
money! do not throw it away, but make every
day and every hour tell either for your growth,
health, or proft.-PhreROfogicai Journal.