St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-22

| themselves into vertigo and catalepsy.
Thousands of men and women coming back
! from our watering places in the autumn
with the foundations laid for ailments that
will last them all ther life long, You know
as well as do that this is the simple truth.
In the summer you say to your good health:
''Good-bye; am going to have a good time
| for little while; will be very glad to see
you again in the autumn" Then in the
autumn when you are hard at work In your
Office or store or shop or counting-room
good health will come in and say: Good
bye; am going" You say:0''Where are
you going?" ''Oh," says good health, '.I
am going to take vacation" 1t is poor
rule that will not work both ways, and your
good health will leave you choleric and
splenatic and exhausted You coquetted
with your good health in the summer time,
and your good health is cOquetting with
you in the winter time. A fragment of
Paups charge to the jailer would be an ap-
propriate inscription for the hotel register
in every watering place: ''Do thyself no
harm" Another temptation lowering
around the watering place is to the forma-
tion of hasty and lifelong alliances. The
watering places are responsible for more of
| the
| DOMESTIC INFELICITIES
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of this country than all other things COM
| bined. Society is so artificial there that no
| sure Judgment of character can be formed.
They who form cOmpanionships amid such
circumstances go into a lottery where there
are twenty blanks to one prize. In the Sc
| we're tug of life you want more than glitter
and splash. Life is not ballroom where
the music decides the step and bow and
| pace and gra ceful swing of long trail can
make up for strong common sense. You
might as well go among the gaily-painted
| yachts of a summer regatta to lind war YES
! sells as to go among the light spray of the
| summer watering places to find character
| that can stand the test of the great struggle
OF human life Oh, in the battle of life you
want stronger weapon than lace fan OF
a croquetmallet! The load of life is so
heavy that in order to draw it you want
| team stronger than one made up of mas
culine grasShOpper and feminine butterfly.
| If there is any man in this community that
excites my contempt and that ought to ex-
cite the contempt of every man and woman,
| it is the Soft-handed, soft-headed fop, who,
| perfumed until the air is actually sick,
spends his summer in taking killing atti-
| tudeS and waving sentimental adieus and
talking infinitesimal nothings and finding
| his heaven in the set of a lavender kid
! glove. Boots as tight as an inquisition,
two hours of consummate skill exhibited in
the tie of a flaming cravat. His cOnvers a.
ton made up of ''Ahs!" and "Ohsp and
''He-hees!" 1t would take 500 of them
stewed down tomake a teaspoonful Of calf's
foot jelly. There is only one counterpart
to such man as that and that is the
FRoTHY YOUNG WOMAN
at the watering places; her conversation
| made up OF French moonshine; what she
has on her head only equaled by what she
has on her back; useless ever since she was
born, and to be useless until she is dead;
and what they will do with her in the next
world do not know except to set her up
on the banks Of the River Of Life for
eternity to look sweet. God intends us to
| admire music and fair faces and graceful
step; but amid the heartleSsness and the
| imitation and the fantastic influences of our
modern watering places, beware how you
make lifelong covenants.
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that to baneful litera-
| ture. Almost every one, starting off for the
summer takes some reading matter. 1t is
book out of the library Or off the book-stand
or bought of the boy hawking books through
the cars. / really believe there IS more
| pestiferous trash resis4zang the intelligent
classes in July and August than in all the
| other ten months of the year. Men and
women who at home would not be satisfied
| with book that was not really sensible, l
| found sitting on the hotel piazza OF under
| the trees reading books the index of which
would make them blush if the knew that
you knew what the book was.
~, r,orcox,
| in August is as bad as literary poison in
December. Mark that. Do not let the
| frogs and the lice Of corrupt printing
press jump and crawl into your Saratoga or
| White mountain valise. Would it not be
| an awful thing for you to be struck with
| lightning some day when you had in your
| hand one of these paper-covered romances
the hero Partisan roue, the heroine an
unpr1ncipled flirt-chapters in the books
that you would not read to your children at
| the rate Of a. hundred dollars line. Throw
| out all of that stuff from your summer bag
gage. Are there not good books that are
easy to read-books of entertaining travel,
books of congenial history, books OF pure
fun, books OF poetry ringing with merry
| canto, books of fine engraving, books that
will rest the mind as well as purify the
| heart and elevate the whole heart? My
| hearers. there will not be an hour between
| this and the day of your death when you
can afford to read book lacking in moral
principle.
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is to intoxicating bev-
erageS. l am told that it is becoming more
and more fashionable for women to drink.
1 care not how well woman may dress, if
she has taken enough of wine to flush her
cheek and put glassness on her eyes, she
is intoxicated. She may be handed into a
| 50. 500 carriage and have diamonds enough
| to confound the Tiffanys, she is intoxicated.
| She may be a graduate of Packer institute
| and the daughter of some man in danger Of
being nominated for the presidency,
| SHE is DRUNK.
| Youmay have larger vocabulary than
| have and you may say in regard to her that
she is ''convvial," or she is merry" or
| she is ''festive," or she is 'exhilarated," }"
but you cannot with all your garlands of
verbiage cover up the plain fact that it is an
ld-fashioned case of drunk. Now
the watering places are full of temp
tations to men and women to
| OF billiard game they tipple, at the close of
the cotillion they tipple Seated on the
piazza cooling themselves off they tipple.
| The tinged glasses come around with
bright straws, and they tipple. First they
take slight wines" as they call them; but
Light wines' are heavy enough to debase
| the appetite. There is not very long road
between champagne at SIS bottle and
whisky at cents glass. Satan has
| three or four grades down which he takes
men to destruction. One man he takes up
and through one spree pitches him into
eternal darkness. That is rare case.
Very seldom indeed can you find man
| who will be such a fool as that Satan will
| talra anothar man To a grade to a descent