Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-08-04

SnOp or counting room, GOOd Health
will come and say, "Good-by; l am GO
ing" You say, "Where are you 60
ing?" ''Oh," says Good Health, IT
am going to take a vacation" 1t is a
poor rule that will not work both ways
and your good health will leave you
choleric and splenetic 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 appro-
pirate inscription for the hotel register
in every watering place, do thyself
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
more 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 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 ball room where
the music decides the step, and bow
and prance and graceful swing of long
trial can make up for strong common
sense. You may as well go among the
gayly painted yachts of a summer re-
gatta 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. All in the battle of life you want
a stronger weapon than lace fan or
croquet mallet! The load of life is so
heavy that in order to draw it you
want a team stronger than one made
up of a, masculine grasshopper and a
feminine butterfly. 4
A WORD ABOUT THE DUDE.
If there is any man in the commune
ty that excites my contempt, and 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 infin-
itesimal nOthings, and finding his heav
en- 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 CONVEX
sation made up of ''Ahs" and ''Oh's"
and ''He-hee's" 1t would take five
hundred of them stewed down to
make teaspoOnful of calls 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 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 upon the banks of the River of
Life for all 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
life long covenants!
Another temptation that will hover
over the watering place is that of bane
full literature. Almost every one start
ing off for the summer takes some
reading matter. 1t is a book out of
the library or off the book stand, or
bought of the boy hawking books
through the cars. l really believe there
is more pestiferous trash read among
the intelligent classes in July and Au-
gust 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 I
found sitting on hotel piazzas or under
the trees reading books the index of
the iniquities of olden time Baden
Baden. Let your moral and your i'm
mortal health keep pace with your
physical recuperatiOn, and remember
that all the waters of Hathorne and
sulphur and chalybeate springs cannot
do you SO much good as the mineral,
healing, perennial flood that breaks |
forth from the Rock of Ages" This
may be your last summer. If SO, make
it fit vestibule of heaven.
Another temptation around nearly
all our watering places is the horse
racing business. We all admire the
horse There needs to be a redistribu-
ton of cOrOnets among the brute crea-
ton. For ages the lion has been called
the king of beasts. [ knock off its
coronet and put the crown upon the
horse in every way nobler, whether in
shape or spirit or sagacity or intelh-
gence or affection or usefulness. He is
l.
on a small scale. The centaur of olden
times, part horse and part man, seems
to be q suggestion of the fact that the
horse is something more than beast.
JOBS APOSTROPHE TO THE HORSE.
Job sets forth his strength, his beauty,
his majesty, the painting of his nostril,
the paving of his hoof and his enthu-
siasm for the battle. What Rosa Bon
heur did for the cattle, and what Land
seer did for the dog, Job, with mightier
pencil, does for the horse. Eighty
eight times does the Bible speak of
him. He comes into every kingly pro-
cession, and into every great occasion,
and into every triumph. 1t is very evil |
dent that Job and David and Isaiah |
md Ezekiel and jeremiah and John |
were very fond of the horse He, came
into much of their imagery. A red
horse-that meant war; black horse |
that meant famine; pale horse
that meant death; a white horse-that
meant victory.
AS the Bible makes favorite of the
horse, the patriarch, and the prophet, |
and the evangelist, and the apostle
stroking his sleek hide, and patting his
rounded neck, and tenderly lifting his |
exquisitely formed hoof, and listening
with a thrill to the champ of his bit, so
all great natures in all ages have
spoken of him in encomiastic terms |
Virgil in his Georges almost seems to |
plagiarize from the description of Job. |
The Duke of Wellington would not al |
low any one irreverently to touch his |
old war horse Copenhagen, on whom |
he had ridden fifteen hours without |
dis1nOunting at Waterloo; and when old |
Copenhagen died his master ordered |