Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-01-31
can YOy AFFORD IT,

Can you afford to work hard al
day, and read, study or court the
vagaries Of society nearly all night,
thus wasting your vitality, exhaust
ing your nervous system, aud bring
ing on premature disease, decay aud
cid age?
Can you afford to rcad fine prin,
with a poor light in q railroad car.
where the motion disturbs the prop
er focus Of the vision, thus weakening
your eyes so as nearly to deprive YOU
Of the power TO use them either in
reading or in the daily duties of life.
Even though you do not have an &C.
culist to pay, you may be obliged to
wear glasses ten or fifteen years soon-
er than you otherwise would; can
you afford thus to spoil your eyes to
save little time?
YOU xrorg toSax usyvyS usu1
then rush to study or to busincss,
withdrawing the nervous energy
from the digestic system to the brain
and muscles, and thus inducing dys-
pepsia, in few years At most, to
scourge, and haunt, and make YOU
miserable for wears, or forlifc?
Can you afford to live on rich and
highly seasoned food, cat champagne
suppers, because an artificial appc-
titc is thus gratiiicd, rendering sout,
dyspepsia, or appoplexy, in the mid
die 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 4 merry one!'
Can you afford to keep your brains
boiling hot in reading sensational
novels. thus umbalancing and render-
ing morbid your mental and physi-
cal constitution!
Can you afford to indulge in fast
living, dressing beyond your means,
driving livery horses, or keeping n
horse yourself. when your income is
not adequate to such expenses?
Can you afford to smoke or chew
tobacco, thus spending from five tC
fifty dollars month, and injurins
your nervous system, and pcrvcrtina
your whole constitution, and thcrcb,
transmitting to children a weakened
constitution, thus making them pun'
invalids for life?
Can you afford to burn out YOU
nervous system by the use of alcho
holic liquors?
Can You afford to indulge in habit
of speculation, gambling, and othc
trickcry and means ofmaking money
Can you afford to make money II
the expense of your morals, you
health. your just rcspcctability ant
your integrity!
Can you afford TO gain even the
whole world and thereby make o
yourself moral wreck?
Can you afford, Tor the sake q
momentary amu,c:ucnt, to vast
your youthful preparatory year.
. when by study you should become
scholar, or by industry either
, tradcsman ora useful artisan?
Can you afford to rob your mind I
clothe YOUR back with silks and sat
ins. and CRAFTY mere love for dis
, play?
Can you afford to be trickrry an
thereby defraud your employer of tn
just services you owe him, even tn,
you do get your pay, thus maxim
, yourself a moral bankrupt?
, Can You afford to be Otherwis
than upright, truthful. faithful, ten
pcratc, courteous, and in all respect
correct!
Pupils in school sometimes fame
, they are doing smart thing by d,
cciving the teacher, that they ma
play Instead of study. Apprentice
often neglect their work for fun am
amusement and fail to learn thci
trade, which is a lifelong damage L
, them. Many people do wrong know
ingly, and thus mar their mora
, nature, and make themselves fec
, mean. unworthy and despicablc; All
, because the world don't know il
they think they have done thcmsclvc
no harm: but they carry the NOR;
a scar of wrong doing through liii
Can YOU afford to have any mott
!, adverse to the old adagc. that ''hol
esty is the best policy::'
Reader, stop and consider whcthc
| what YOU are doing or what you PR
+ pose to do will pay; whether you ca
afford to do it. "Timc is money!" Il
=. not throw it away, but make ever
day and every hour tell either 70
: your growth, healt or honon.-Pren
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