Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-22

men chassezing themselves into vertigo
aud catalepsy. Thousands of men and
women coming back from our watering
places in the autumn with the founda-
tions laid for ailments that viii
last them all their life long.
You know az well as l do that
this is the simple truth. In the summer
YOU say to your good health: Goodbye;
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: Goodbye; am going" You
say: where are you goingY' con-"
vacation" 1t is poor rule that will not
work both ways, and your good health
will leave you chOleric and splenetic and
exhausted. You coqaeted with your
good health in the summer time, and your
good health is cOqueting with you in The
winter time. A fragment Of PauPs charge
to the jailer would be an appropriate in
scription for the hotel register in every
watering place ''DO myself no HARM"
Another temptation lowering around
the watering place is TO the formation of
hasty and lifelong alliances. The water
ing places are responsible for more of the
domestic infelicities of this country than
all other things combined. Society is so
artificial there that no sure judgment OF
character can be formed. They who form
cOmpaniODships amid such circum-
stances 90 into lottery where there are
20 blanks to one prize. In the severe tug
Of life you want more than glitter and
splash. Life is not a ballroom where the
music decides the step and bow, and
graceful swing of long trail can
make up for strong common sense. You
might as well go among the gaily painted
yachts OF summer regatta to mud war
vessels as to go among the light spray Of
the summer watering place to find char
acter that can stand the test of the great
struggle of human life. All, in the battle
Of life you want stronger weapon than
a lace fan or a croquet malletl The load
OF life is so heavy that in order to draw it
you want a team stronger than one made
up of masculine grasshopper and femi-
nine butterfly. If there is any man
in the community that excites my
contempt, and that ought to excite the
contempt Of every man and woman, it is
the sOft-handed, sOft-headed flop, who,
perfumed until the air is actually sick,
spends his summer in taking killing atti-
tudes, and waving sentimental adieus,
and talking intinitesimal nOthings, and
finding his heaven in the set of a lavender
kid glove. Boots as tight as an inquisi-
ton, two hours of consummate skill eX-
hibiJed in the tie of flaming cravat, his
conversation made up OF ''ahs," and
''ohs,' and ''he-hees." 1t would take five
hundred OF them stewed down to make
teaspoOniul 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 place; her conversation
made up of French moOnshine; what she
has on her head only equalled 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 in
tends us to admire music and fair faces
and graceful step, but amid the heartloss-
ness, and the imitation, and the fantastic
influences of our modern watering places,
beware how YOU make fife-long covenants.
Another temptation that will hover
over the watering places is that to baneful
literature. Almost every one starting of
for the summer takes some reading mat
ter. 1t is book out of the library or off
the book stand, or bought of the boy
hawking books through the cars. / real
ly believe there is more pesuferOus trash
read among the intelligent classes in July
aud 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, [
found sitting on hotel piazzas or under
the trees reading books, the index of
which would make them blush if they
knew that you knew what the book was.
OH they say. E'you must have intel
lectuRl recreation" Yes, there is no need
that YOU Ia ke along into a watering place
Hamilton's metaphysics or some other
thunderOus discourse on the DEGREES, or
Faraday's philosophy. There are many
easy books that are good. You might as
well say: 81 propose now TO give little
rest to my digestive organs, and instead of
eating heavy meat and vegetables / will
for little while take lighter food-a little
strychnine and few grains ofratsbaue."
Literary poison in August is as bad as
literary poison in December. Mark that.
Do not let the frogs and the lice of a cor
rupt printing press jump and crawl into
your Saratoga trunk or White Mountain
valise. Would it not he an awful thing
for you to be struck with lightning some
day when you had in your hand one OF
these paper-coyered FOmances-the hero
a Partisan roue, the heroine an unprin-
cipled flirt-ehapters in the book that you
would not read to your children at the
rate of a hundred dollars line. Throw
Out All bnhb STUN lIOul gOut DdE-
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 hearts and elevate the whole
lifeg NY hearers, there will not be an
hour between this ard the day of your
death when you can afford TO read a book
lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is TO intoxicating
beverage. | am told that il is becoming
more and more fashionable for women to
drink. | care not how well woman may
dress; If she has taken enough of wine h
flush her cheek and put "A glassiness on
handed into $4,000 carriage and have
diamonds enough to contound the Tiff
fanys-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. You may have larger
vocabulary than l have, and you may
say in regard to her that she is "convi.
VIAL" or she is 'merry," or abe is ''fes-
tive" or she is "eXhilarated:" hut YOU
cannot, with all your garlands Of yer.
biage, cover up the plain fact that 1t 10 an
Old-fashiOned case of drunk. Now. the
watering places are full of temptations 10
men and women to tipple. At the close
OF the ten-pin or billiard game they tipple.
Al the close OF the cotilliOn they tipple
Gpntpd on the piayya pooifng fhamgnlvpe