The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-05

health is coquetting with you In the
winter time A fragment of Pauls
charge to the jailer would be an appro-
pirate inscription 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 life long alliances. The
watering places are responsible for
moro of the domestic infelicities Of this
country than all the other things com
bined Society is so artificial there
that no sure judgment of character can
be formed. Those who form compan-
ionships amid such circumstances go
into IL lottery where there are twenty
blanks to one prize In the severe tug
of life you want more than glitter and
splash. Life is not II ball room where
the music decides the step, and bow
and prancc and graceful swing of long
trial can make up for strong common
sense. You may as well go among the
gayly painted yachts Of summer re-
gatta to find war vessels us to go among
the light spray of the summer Watering
place 10 find character that can stand
the test of the great struggle of human
life. All, in the battle of life you want
n stronger weapon than n lace fan or u
croquct maIiet. The load of life is so
heavy that in order to draw it you
want team stronger than one made
up of a masculine grasshopper and a
feminine butterfly.
A WORD ABOUT TIE DUDE.
ii there is amy man III the commune
ty that cNcites my contempt, and that
excites the contempt of every man and
woman, it is the soft handed, soft
headed flop who, perfuncd until the
air is actually sick, spends his summer
In taking killing attitudes, and waving
sentimental adcus, and talking inlin-
itesimal not4lingS, and finding Ills heav-
en- in the sci of Il lavender kid glove;
boots as tight rs an inquisitlon; two
hours Of consuinmatc skill exhibited in
the tie of Il flaming cravat; his CONVEX
sation made up of Abs and "Oh's"
and "IIe-hec's. 1t would take five
hundred OF them stewcd down TO
make n teaSpoonful of calls foot jelly.
There is only ono counterpart to such
a man rs that, and that is the frothy
young woman ut the watering place
her conversation made up Of French
moonshine; what she has on her head
only equnled 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 10 with lIer in the
next world ! do not know, except TO
Set her upon the banks of tive River OF
Life for all eternity To look sweet,
God intends us 10 admire music and
fair faces and graceful step, but amid
the hcartleSsue->, and the initiation, and
the fantastic influences OF our modera
watering places beware how you make
life long covenants.
Another temptation that viii hover
over the watering place is thato banc-
full literature Almost every one start
ing of for the summer takes some
reading matter 1t is book out Of
the library or of the book stand, or
bought OF the boy hawking books
through the cars really believe there
is more pestiierolS trash read among
the intelligent classes in July and Au
gust than in ali the other ten months
of the year Mon and women who at
home would not be satisfied with a
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.
sHUS BANEFCL LITERATURE.
ooh, they say, you must have in
tellectual recreation" Yes. There is
no need that you take along into a
watering place ''lIamiltons lietaphys-
les. or some thunderous discourse on
tho eternal DEGREES, or "Faraday's
Philosophy" There are many easy
books that are good. You might as
we'll say, Il propose now 10 give little
rest to my digestive organs, and In
stead of eating hea.y meat and ve8e-
tables | will for n little while take
lighter food-a little strychninc and q
few grains Of ratsbane. Literary poi
son in August is rs 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 bc 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 a Partisan roue, the heroine an
unprincipled flirt-chapters in the book
that YOU would not read to your chill
dren at the rate of 500 line. Throw
out that stuff from your summer bag
gage Are there not good books that
are easy to read-books OF conGenial
history, books of pure fun, books OF
poetry ringing with merry canto, books
of fine engravings, books that Will rest
the mind as well as purify the heart
and elevate the whole life2 My hearers,
there will not be an hour between this
and the day of your death when you
can afford to read Il book lacking In
moral principle. :,
Another temptation lowering all
around our watering places is the in
toxicating beverage. l am told that 1t
is becoming more and more fashionable
for women to drink. l care not how
well a woman may dress, if she has
taken enough OF wine to flush her
cheeks and put glassincss on her eyes
she is intoxicated. She may be handed