Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-10-07
TO-MOrrOw's sunday.

The toil-weary, care-worn soul halls
thee with delight. Oh, the bliss in that
word, rest. The Joy, the intense, ecstatlc,
unspeakable felicity of being able to sit
down with clean face and paper collar,
and feel that you have nothing to do but
to stare 1t the new fall styles and conjurc
| up swindles for the next week. .'Re.
member the Sabbath day to keep it holy"
How many do it?
Day of snoozing and strolling and tat :
tling. Day on which Miss Araminta Au.
gustina Seraphina radpole puts three lay
ers more OF roseate col,ring on her cheeks !;
dons her igntest-waisted and longest
tIHiled rainbow tinted silk or velvet |;
mounts her stunningest braids, most cost
ly curls and eggshtliest love-of. a-bonnet; (;
and sails forth to see and be seen, to crit.
else amt be criticised. Day on which
lively heads are bent over gilt-clasped
prayer book to whisper, "How shocking
ly Angelina. Brown does 10 k in green =
or, "Yonder is that hideous Jones girl
with that same old dress she has worn
two years." or, "What too utterly utter
monstachc Mr.. Charles Frederick Fitz.
noodle has"
Day on which pompous old christian
gentlemen, with heavy gold fob-chsins
and port wine noses, nod stupidity in easy
cushioned pews; and young bucks with
their first goatees wink and squint, and
grin like tall SO apes or delighted guinea
pigs, at every silly little creature in sky
blue silk or peach-boomy muslin, that
happens to glance in fifty feet of where
they sit. Day on which ungainly aching
hoofs are squeezed into boots that rack
every nerve with agony, whilst the idotlc
sufferer hobbies along in vain attempt to
lock at case. Day en- which little snubby
boys get many an extra scrubbing, and
their dimininutlve possessors many lec-
ture for initiating the weekday manners
Of their parents.
LAY Ge on HGcn R.ous citizens
their store-tronts, and retail mag goty
cheese, mackerel, crakers and jug vittles,
at their back-doors in the alley. Day on
which people go to church to pick flaws
in the half-paid parsons sermon, see the
fashions, gossip with the neighbors,
yawn. stretch, doze, sing say "amen;"-
and come home to growl over cold din
ner, scold the servants, have prayers, say
catechism and wish it was Monday. Sic
tran sit gloria Sunday.
Day of black coats, immaculate linen
and solemn phlzzes. Day Of buggy rld-
ing, park rama ling, servant girl courting
and sanctitied dul)ness. Day of organ
music, quarrelsome choir chan 8, somuif-
erous homilies and inane chitile.chattle.
Day of sanctimonious rascality and treblv
deceitful appearance.
Such is the fashionable Sabbath, in-
stead Of the bright, beautiful, holy and
happy day God intended it to be. But
abused, mangled, desecrated as it is, 1t is
still ever Welcome. The aching bead aud
weary bones cry out, THANK God for
Sundayl"
Little boys, put up those marbles and
tops and thousand other implements of
weekday fun aud mischief. Do not go
behind the house to play; remember it is
Sunday in the backyard too DO not
read naughty papers like The Chicago
Times, The Cincinnati Enquirer and Tie
Police Gazette to-day. Look over your
Sunday Argus and your Bibles, and 60 to
church. Go to church early. Do not
wear squeaky boots, so as to annoy every
body else when you enter. Do not put
brass bsttons or counterfeit shipplassers
in the collectionbox, as pretcntious hypo-
critics, atttr-day Pharisees do; you
cannot cheat God or the devil. Do not
spit tobacco-juice on The floor. d. not
snorc so as to disturb the slumbers of the
elders and deacons.
Finally, be good, live temperately, hon
estly and peaceably. Never swear or tell
u talsehood. Never permi, vulger word
to escape your lips Never be seen where
| you would be ashamed to meet your
mother and sisters. Remember that the
| true gentleman. should be as pure in his
daily life as the purest woman with whom
he associates. There is, there can be, no
masculine monopoly of indecency.
Abhor bitter, rsnting sectienalism, and
the new tangled, political loyalty which
teaches that anything party does is right.
Let your patriotism be as broad ss the
country. Beware Of the leaven OF Greed.
whose only god is gold, however fairly or
feully go ten. Leathe with holy loathing
all unclean and piiatical practices in gov
ernmenta! affairs Cleav. to all that is
noble and good. aud despi>e all that is
base and aepraved in church, state and
! society. !. Vote for the best man and most
| patriotic measures every time. Never
despair of the republic. aud pay for your
paper in advance--And, as surely as there
Is q heaven for christian, and another and
altogether different place for large pro.
portion of our so-cal.ed American states
men, you will be healthy. wealthy. wise
and happy; lust SO surely YOU may rise,
/ like ore Just made immortal. from the
tOwpath to the skies. Pax vobiscum.
A men. A-women.
Go to church. Whatever your faith or
lack of faith you ought to find something
to suit you in the list Of sanctuar1ee, whnee
open doors invite you to enter and b
welcome.