The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-08


Is taken up at an almost fabulous price,
and there are many respectable people
mingling with Jockeys. and gamblers,
and libertines,- and foul mouthed men
and hashy women The bartender stirs
up the brandy smash The bet runs high
The greenhorns. supposing all is fair.
put in their money soon enough to lose
It Three weeks before the race takes
place the struggle is decided and the
men in the secret know on which steed
to bet their money. The two men on
the horses riding around long before ar
range who shall be beat f444
Leaning from the stand or from the
carriage are men and women SO alb
sorbed in the struggle of bone and
muscle and mettle that they make q
grand harvest for the pickpockets, who
carry of the pocket books and porte
monnaies.
All. my friends, have nothing to do
with horse racing designations this sum-
mer. Long ago the English Govern
ment got through looking to the turf
for the dragoon and light cavalry horse.
They found the turf depreciates the
stock, and it is yet worse for men.
Thomas Hughes, the member OF Parlia-
ment and the author. known all the
world over, hearing that new turf en-
terprise was being started in this coun-
try.swrote>a letter, in which he said:
Heaven help you, then; for of all the
cankers of our old civilization there Is
nothing in this country approaching in
unblushing msannesss in, rascality hold
ing its head high, to this belauded in
stitution of the British turf" =
/ go further. and speak of another
temptation that hovers over the water
ing places; and this is the temptation
to sacrifice physical strength The
modern Bethesda was meant to recupex-
ate the-physical; health, and yet how
many come from the watering places,
their health. absolutely destroyed. New
York and Brooklyn idiots boasting of
haying amtah4dy twenty glasses of con-
gress water before breakfastS Families
accustomed to going to bed at ten
o'clock at night, gOssiping until one or
two o'clock in the morning. Dyspep-
tics, usually very cautious about their
health, mingling ice creams and lemons
and lobster salads and cocoa nuts until
the gastric juices lift up all their voices
of lamentation and protest Delicate
women and brainless young men chas-
SEEING themselves into vertigo and cat
alepsy. Thousands of men and women
coming back from our watering places
in the autumnWith the foundations laid
for ailments that WIN last ths i'm all their
life long
Another temptation lowering around
the Watering place is. to the formation
OF hasty and lifelong alliances. The
watarino VNlanoo al ~
of the domestic infelicities Of this coun-
try than allthe other things combined.
Society is so art. fetal there that no sure
judgment of character can be formed.
Those who form companionsLips amid
such circumstances go into a 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 a ball room where the music
decides the step, and bow and prance
and graceful swing of long trail can
make up for strong common sense. You
may as we'll go among the gaily-painted
yachts of a summer regatta to find war
vessels as to go among the light spray
of the summer watering place to find
character that can stand the test of the
great struggle of human life.
IL there is any man in the community
that excites 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 attitudes, and waving
sentimental adieus, and talking in
finitesimal nothings, and finding his
heaven in the set of lavendar kid glove.
Boots as tight as an inquisition, two
hours of consummate' skill exhibited in
fhstie ora flaming. crsvat. his conFersa-
don made up OF s'Ahss" and 'D'ss and
"He-hee's-" 1t would take 500 of them
slowed down. to make q teaspoontul of
calves foot Jelly. There is only the
counterpart to such a man as that, and
that is the frothy young woman at the
watering place, her conversation made
kup of French moonshine; what she has
| on her head only equaled by what she
has on her back useless ever since
she was 'borns and to be useless
until i she is desd; 4nd what they
will do with her in the next world /
do not know, except to setrher upon the
banks of the river of Life for all eter-
nifty to look sweet God intends us to
admire music and fair faces land grace
full step. but amid the and
the initiation and tie fantastic infiur
ences of our modern watering places,
beware how yopipake liie covena1tsl
Another temptation that Will hover
over the watering place is thatof bane-
full literature. Almost every one. staxt-
ing OF for the summer takes some. Rad
ing matter. It is a 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
-psstiferoH's trash read-among ths iutal-
ligeAt glasses In Guly-a1d Aagoss -saan
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. 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
@oald It not be an awful thing for you
be struck BY lightning some day
when You had 10 your hand oRe'of those
paper-covered romances-the hero Pa
risian rne. the heroine. an unprincipied
firt-chspters in the book that you
would not read to your childsen- 1t the
rate of 500 a linel Throw out that stuff
from your summer baggage. Are there
not good books that are easyst6 read
books of cougenial history, books of
pure fun. books of poetry ringing with
-lperry.caFtOsbooks of fine sengravinss,
books tbatMiA rest the mind IS. we'll as
purify the heart and 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 around
our watering places is the Intoxicating