Connecticut western news., 1878-02-07
NIGHT LIFE OF YOUNG MEN.
Where Aemlth is L0st, FoFtslncs SQuandered . &.E and Life Rendered n Failure.

Where Aealth is Lost, FOFtslncs SQuandered &-E and Life Rendered n Failure.
 From early times, says Dr. Muller, Iigeourees have been delivered to, young Y men with reference to health, temper aroes and integrity. These elements went not only to make up the we'll being sof manhood but of womanhood as we'll. Upon them depends our success or fall ure in life. Yet one night has often been sufficient to scuttle the ship of many 8 young mans hopes, character and promise. Night is the harvest of debauchery and crime. More sin is com. mitted during the dark hours of the twenty-four than during the light O. many days. This is especially true ir our large cities. When the machinery of business stops. the machinery of de- struction begins. In the night, when we look out upon the street, we look, out upon different world than in the day time. AS the young man passes up the street, he beholds the long line of lamps, and the brilliant transparencies. Music from places of amusement greets his ear. Theaters and ball rooms are open to receive him. Debauchery and sir have full sway. And the thousand mills of alluremeht and destruction, though they grind slowly, they grind out the hope and happiness of thousands. The pitfalls, which are only open at right entrap many young man, and he sinks never to rise again. In the shadows crime is cursing, and there goes up { vail of agony which, could we hear would startle us.
 So when we look out we ask the watch man the hour of night, and the police man the whereabouts of our young men They would be unwilling to have theil parents know where they assemble ani pass the hours in revelry. Should they be discovered in the accustomed haunts some would hide themselves from SO ciety, while others for shame would seel the grave of the suicide.
 The night life oi young men is be coming the great question of society God has given the man health ant strength, and to disregard those law which govern their bodies IS suicida m madness. Yet there are thousands wh, are dy1ng on account of their disobe dience. Upon the right and left the. sink into premature graves. Thel comes the apology that hard work ant unfeeling employers brought them to al untimely end. But the truth is ther are more young men who die from thei irregularities than from hard, homes toll. God made us for work. Look a the men who have labored every da:. and reached the ages sof seventy am eighty years. There are Franklin, Bry ant, Vanderbilt and A. T. Stewart These men took care of their nights They allowed the furnaces to cool off gave time to their powers and faculties So let young men see to it that they d not misuse their body. At home the should seek the rest, recreation an amusement that they seek elsewhere It s no wonder. that so many die whe to their regular work they add revelr and dissipation. s: a4 | Let us look at the question from standpoint other than sanitary. Tn young man, who has 2 cultivated mind
 needed Brains are esnot at 8 discount this country. Neither are they, as son say, the gift of God. If all would mal of the time and opportunities that the have none need remaln ignorant. Edl cated persons are in demand everywher' It is far cheaper and far better to hil men with brains to back their work tha those who have none at all. An educ tion is the best legacy that can be give to a young man. There is no use h saving that he has no time or oppor5 ity to improve his mind. Let him re- et the life of Horace Greeley. There
 no use of saying he is too old. Let hi
 study the biography of Cato. If he W nspend his evenings properly he will
 stonished with the amount he ms learn. Five years will make him fani jar with Greek, Latin, philosophy, En- fish literature and other branches
 knowledge.
 After young man comes home weal of toll he thinks he cannot study, b
 must seek other enjoyment. But should remember that if he passes h evening in reading history or scien his body is resting for the morrow work. .,,, .., .a.r-s
 There are many, however, who not on
 waste their time ill doing nothing, b in reading fashy literature. The diffe ence between tito books they read-tl difference between an inslpid wom, with clothes hung upon her and brg one with cultivated mind-is the d ference between the words they perus So it behooves all to look to the chara ter of what they read and study.
 A Story of Life.