The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-18

TO a store and tells the truth about his
goods. He stays three years and is ruined
| through the wrong system of ethics pre-
yailing there. Ii becomes finally his BUSH
ness To show customers the sights of the
| city. He comes To the store some day
drunken and demOrolized and is kicked
out by those who have taken the luster out
of his eye. the honor out Of his soul.
EXCESSIVE AMUSEMENT
was the next hlunder treated of. The
speaker said he was not opposed to inno-
c%nt amusement. He described most graph
ically game of ball, the game of check
ers after tea, the drive and the chase Peo-
pie should enjoy themselves. He did no.;
believe a mans face should be counter on
which To measure religion by the ward. 1t
was no better To- wear out than To rust out
both Were sins.
But the man who makes looking for
recreation his whole business is going to
ruin. Amusements are harmless when
they do not interfere with home enjoyment.
When they create a disJaSte for home pleas
ures, they are harmful. When a man does
not enjoy his home life, look out This
branch of the lecture was closed with a
beautiful word picture OF the home.
B!under next was the
FORMATION OF WRONG DOMESTIC RELA-
TONS.
The lecturer spoke of the drunken, dis
solute husband who made his home the
abode of misery; and of the cross, censo-
riOus. peevish man, who was worse than
the dead drunk man, because he could not
he managed. On the other hand he spoke
of the men of fine business capacity,
whose aim in life had been defeated by
the imprudence and folly of their wives.
He had known delicate women who had
strength enough TO carry their husbands
store off upon their backs and who, while
their husbands were In the most embar-
raised circumstances were declaring the
most liberal dividends among the milliners
and dressmakers. A man has no right to
mske a b!uader and get this kind of a
wcmsn. The world was never so full OF
good women as to-day.
The strong helpful woman, who is ready
To take any position to which fortune as
signs her is the lady. This woman knows
how to do things She never sews on a
licorice drop Tor button; nor mistakes a
bread tray for a cradle.
The last biunder which was treated Of
was
ATTEMPTING LIFE WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM
AND ENTERPRISE
Too much impt tuosiiy is to be deprecat-
cd, but the age demands enthusiasm and en-
ersy. This is the great day OF enterprise.
Men walk and Drive and live faster than
ever before. Now We fy without wings,
and move sitting still He who can't swim
In the Curren. viii drown. But there is no
necessity If being borne down BY the cur
rent. | have no patience with those who
cry that the occupations are all full. There
never was such "a time rs now. Put your
finger upon a map of the world and wheI-
ever it fails il will be upon place that is
growing better. Spain is getting q better
government; Italy is throwing off supersti-
ton for religion India has banisted her
cruel iuggernauis. Those who see the re-
c. ding wave cry that the tide is going out,
but each succeeding wave rises higher.
The great army of civilization and Chris
tianity is moving IN two wings. The Eng
lish wing will take all countries until 1T
reaches the Holy Land. The American
wing will move over the Alieghauies and
the Rockies, pass dry shod over the
Pacific, and crossing Asia the two wings
will meet at the Holy Land.
Rev Mr.. 1almage closed his lecture by
thanking the audience for their kind re-
ceptiOn and the opportunity of addressing
them He said he could return the favor
only by inviting them to New York and
Brooklyn, and to his house. He hoped,
however, that they would not all come al
once.
SOME SENTENCES FROM THE LECTURE.
We will never thunder or fret or scold
anything better. The world can only be
made better by kindness.
90 not believe a mans face should be
made counter on which religion may be
measured by the yard.
Recreation is only the jingling of the
bells while the horses draw the load.
Now one icicle frozen to each chair and
sofa is a sociable.
| have known a house of twenty-five
rooms that was n yestibule of perdii; on
and have known = house of two rooms
that was q veStibule of heaven.
If man has a good wife-like yours or
mine-hc has no right to complain, though
the whole world be against him.
The earth is full of music. Silence itself
is but music asleep.
Gossip is horn in the lowest depths OF
hell, and comes forth reeking with slime
and darting venom from its forked
tongue.
Besides the bill sent in to the father of
the boarding school miss, Dame Nature
puts in bill as follows
Miss Ophelia Angelina to Dame Nature,
DR..
To one years neglect of exercise-6fteen
chills.
To twenty nights late retiring-twenty-
five witches of the nerves.
constitution, chronic neuralgia, lifelong
dyspepsia, and couple of fits.