The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-07
NEW YEAR RESOLVES.
Something TO Think About just
ut this Time.

Something TO Think About just
nt this Time.
REV. John Hall in the n. Y. Ledser.l
Young gentlemen, who have been hang
ing around young persons Of the other
sex, taking up their time, occupying their
attention, keeping others out OF the way,
meaning nothing, but doing them a great
WRONG and cruelty, should resolve to dis.
continue this meanness and sel6sllness,
and leave them to themselves or 10 hon
est and practical men. Attach yourself
to dog, young gentleman; or cane, or a
breastpin, or to an Ulster coat, wonderful
in its elongationS, so rs to do the least
possible harm. These ladies are some
thing higher than youriamusement. !
Ladies who have 30 distributed smiles
and notices that two or more linen" are
kcpti in suspense, while they crafty their
feminine vanity, extend Their fame, or
prudently wait to sec which is the richer
in cssc or in pOSse-resolve to take all but
orte of the track. BE simple, pure, true,
wOmanly. A man who is worth even your
slightest smile is Of too much value TO be
played with like u bauble at Titfany's.
You may do him serious mischief, and
the danger is the greater the more open,
honest and forcible his nature. I!
Boys, who have been fighting nature
and trying to like the taste Of tobacco
smoke, who hide the thing from their
mothers, and are preparing for themselves
u needless item OF expense and trouble
through life-rcsolvc to drop it at once
and forever. You do not need to smoke.
The good ia small at best. There are
some evils. Why increase artiiicially the
number Of your wants? Throw away
that cigarette, and kiss your mother, or
any one else whom 1t is proper Tor you
TO kiss, with clean mouth and sweet
breath.
Men, WHO hold women's hands in yours
before the clergyman; who vowed 10 love,
cherish aud protect them, to keep them
in sickness and health, who, spend your
evenings and your earnings, in good part,
in corner groceries and clubs-more or
less repntable-who come bone at late
hours, with grutf words and repellant
looks to wife and chilren-resolve to go
back to the old times OF love and hope
and fond endearment, and never again TO
leave these dear hearts hungry for words
OF affection and confidence, such az you
used to speak. -
Gentlemen, whose "debts Of honor" are
paid, whose luxufies cost u fortune,
whose entertainments are the talk OF the
town." but whose domestics find it hard
to get their wages, whose grocers and
whose tailors have to wait, land who are
demoralized by piling on the compensa-
ting overcharge) even whose doctors are
STAYED of like the diseases they combat
resolve 10 pay your bills. Because these
debtors cannot dun you is it fair, or man
ly, or honorable, to compel them to resort
to small shifts to keep up their own
credit, and hold their own ground?
Girls, whose precocious talk and
thoughts are Of dress, Of beaux, Of Sim
pressions" to be made, ofstyle, Of friends
lirtations, who are women in manners
while children in understanding and
ycars-rcsolyc to drop the suicidal folly
and to substitute for such employments
good and solid books, pure and useful ac-
quirements, and tie acquisitions that beit
you us young American women, and 1T
you for the dutieso life. The manners
of ballet.dancer and the form OF milli-
ner's lay-fgure arc a poor capital with
which to begin life in an honest mans
home. li4c-a.s -lt.I1
Business men who are trading on eleven
times your real capital, who, in every
furry in the market, are trembling on the
verge Of suspension, who must misrepre-
sent, overstatc, and resort TO innumerable
shifts TO keep going-resolve to drop the
fraud. Get on solid ground. Take in
sail. BE real; and il your trade be less
let IL be safe, honorable and reliable.
Blowing commercial bubbles that vanish
in the air is child's play-in everything
but harmlessness.
Dear ladies, who are running races
with each other, in rivalry as to dless, or
naments, furniture and show generally;
whose OUTLAWS cmbarrass your hard-work-
cd husbands, often afraid to tell youthc
sober facts Of their position; whose homes
lose in comfort what they gain in DIS
play; whose childrep are trained by the
aheip," and are like TO take Unconscious
revenge some day by breaking your
hcarts-resolvc to stop this, to be helps
meet to your husbands, TO live at home,
to do mothers duties, and to lessen the
temptation to your poorer sisters to sac
ritice everything AZ tho Shrine Of dress
and fashion Which yot erect and decor
ate. ... .n. '.
Young men, learning to drink up to
the point Of high excitement, trademen,
students, lawyers, doctors, merchants,
known already to your friends aS eehjoy.
ing a glass" suspected by some, tempted
by some, yohr weakness traded on by
some, despised secretly by some who
! know you, yet show no sign in, their
bearing toward you-resolvc TO droy the
glass, whether Of plebeian whisky punch,
brandy and water, or "dry old port"
Away down at the foot OF tho Slippery
decline on which you are entering are
the bones Of many strong men, "fallen
down slain"
Christian brethren, who have been
"taking II casy,n living on their feputa-
tion, or letting hollow sbams and convcn.
tionalisms aloney or going through the
motions Of devoutness when the IiiO Is
not, or gliding into melodramatic device
and stage.,rick, or giving tho children Of
men husks, or "molasses candy" or con.
fectionery, when they need wholesome
brcad-rcsolve TO begin solid, truthful
practical work, that will bear scrutiny
when slime shall be no more"
THEODORE TnroN finds the lecture
business agreeing with his constitution
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