Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07

OF the
DOMESTIC INFELICITIEs
of this country than all the other things
combined. Society 10 so artificial there
that no sure judgment of character can
| he formed. Those who form companion-
ships amid such circumstances go into
lottery where there are twenty blanks TO
one prize. In the severe tug OF life you
want more than glitter and splash. Lie
| is not ballroom where the music de-
cides the step. and bow and prauce ana
| graceful swing OF long trail can make up
! for strong common sense. 1ou may rs
well go among the gaily painted yachts
of summer regatta to find war vessels
as to 70 among the light spray OF the
summer watering place to find character
that can stand the test OF the great
struggle of human life. All, in the bat
tie of life you want stronger weapon
than a lace fan or d croquet mallet! 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 n feminine butterfly.
If there is any man in the community
that excites my contempt, and that eX-
cites the contempt of every man and
woman, II is the soft-handed, soft
headed flop, who, perfumed until the air
is actually sick, spends his summer IN
taking killing attitudes, and waving
| sentimental adieus, and taking infinite
sinai nothings, and finding his heaven
in the set of a lavender kid glove. Boots
| as tight as an inquisition, two hours of
consum mate skill exhibited in the tie of q
flaming crayat, his conversation made
up of "Ah's'' and 'Oh 's'' and 'He-
hee 's." 1t would take five hundred of
them stewed down 10 make teaspoonful
of calves 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 OH her back; useless
ever since she was born, and to be use
less until she is dead, aud what they will
do with her in the next world do not
know, except to set her upon the banks
of the River of Life for all eternity to
look sweet! God intends us to ad-
mire music and fair faces and
graceful step, but amid the
heartlessness aud the initiation aud the
fantastic Influences of our modern water
ing places, beware how you make life
long covenautsi
Another temptation that will hover
over the watering place is that of baueful
literature. Almost everyone starting off
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. 1
really believe there Is more pestiferous
trash read among 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
a book that was not really sensible, l
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.
CON- they say, "you must have
intellectual recreatIon!' Yes. There
is no need that you take along into q
watering-plac ''Hamilton' Metaphys-
ics' or some thunderous discourse on
the eternal DEGREES, or "Faraday's
Philosophy There are many easy
books that are good. You might as well
say: al propose now to give little rest
TO my digestive organs; and, instead of
eating heavy meat and vegetables, l
will for little while take lighter food
little strychnine and few grains of
ratsbane.'
LITERARY POISON IN AUGUST
is as bad as literary poison in December.
Mark that. Do not let the frogs and the
lice of a corrupt printing-press jump and
crawl INTO your Saratoga trunk or White
Mountain valise.
Would 1t not be an awful hing for
you TO be struck with lightning some
day when you had in your baud one of
ha
Partisan roue, the heroine au unprin-
cipled tilrt-chapiers IN the book that
you would not read to your children at
the rate of 500 a line. Throw out that
stuff from your summer baggage. Are
there not good books that are easy to
rsad-books of congenIal history, books
of pure fun, books of poetry ringing
with merry canto, books of fine engrav-
ings, books that will rest the mind as
well as purify the heart aud elevate the
whole life? My hearers, there will not
be an hour between this and 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 the intoxi-
eating beverage. / am told that it is
becoming more and more fashionable for
women to drink. l care not how well q
woman may dress, if she has taken
enough OF wine to flush her cheek and
put glassiness on her eyes. she is intoxi-
Gated. She may be handed into a $500
carriage, and have diamonds enough TO
eonfound the TIffanys-sbe is intoxi-
Gated. She may be graduate of q
great institute, and the daughter of
some man III 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 'conviyIal, or she is
"merry, - or she is ''fes ive,' or she
is "exhilarated, but you cannot with
all your gsrlands of verbiage cover up
the plain fact that it is On old-fashioned
case OF drunk.
Now. the wateriDg-plaoes are full of
temptations o men and women to tipple.
At the close of the tenpin or billiard
game they tipple. At the close of the
eotilion 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 ''Iight wines,"
as they call them, but "light winesh
are heavy enough to debase the appe-