The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-08-21

and this is the temptation to sacrifice physi-
cal strength. Tho modern Bethesda was
meant to recuperato the physical health, and
yet how msny come from tho Watering
places theil health absolutely destroyed !
Now York AMI Brooklyn idiots boasting OF
having imbibcd twenty glasses of Congress
water before breakfast. Families accls.
toned to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night
cossipinr until or o'clock in the morning.
Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their
health, minglng ico creams und lemons alld
lobster salads aud cocoanuts until the gastric
juicos lift up all their voices of Illumination
and protest. Delicate women and brainlcSs
Young mon chasseZing themselves into vorti-
go and catalepsy. Thousands of men and
women coming back from our watering
places in the autumn with the foundations
laid for ailments that will last them all their
life long. You know rs woll aS do that this
is tho simple truth.
In tho summer You say to your good
time for q little Willie. will be very glal
to sec You again in the autumn" Then in
the autumn, when you are hard at work i'll
your Office or shop or counting room, Cool
Health will come and say "Good by; am
going" You say, "Where are you going"'
"Oh,h says Good Health, 81 am going to take
vacation! 1t is poor rule that will not
work both ways, and your good health VIII
leave You choleric and splenetlc and e3,
hausted. You coquettel with your good
health in tho summer time, and your good
health is coquetting with you in the winter
time. A fragment OF PauFs charge 70 tne
taller would be an appropriate inscription
for the hotel register in every watering place,
'Do thy self no HARM"
Another temptation lowering arounl thu
watering place is to the formation of hasty
AMI lifelong alliances. The watering places
are responsible for more Of tho domestic in
fc!icities of this country than all the other
things combined. Society is so artificial there
that no sure Judgment OF character can be
formed. Those who form companioaShips
amid such circumstances go into lottery
where there ara twenty blanks to ono prize
In the severe tug Of life you want more than
glitter and splash. Life is not ballroom
anil bow anu pranco and graceful
swing of long trail can make up
for strong common sense. You may as
we'll go among the gayy painted yachts OF
summer regatta to find war vessels as TO g.
among the light spray of the summer water
ing place to find character that can stand the
test of the great struggle of human life.
Ah, in the battle of life you want a stronger
weapon than lace fan or a croquet mallct!
Tho load of life is so heavy that in order to
draw if you want team stronger than one
made up of q masculine grasshopper AMI
feminine butterfly.
II there is any man in the community that
e1cites my contempt, and that excites the
contempt of every mau anil woman, it is the
soft-hauded, soft-headel fop who, perfumed
until the air is actually sick, spends his sum-
mer in taking killing attitudes and waving
sentimental adieus and talking iufnitesimal
nothings and finding his heaven in the set Of
n lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an
inquisition, two hours of consummate skill
exhibited i'll the tie Of flaming cravat, his
conversation male up of "Ah's" aud
"Oh'S" and "He-hee'S.n 1t would take five
hundred of them stawed down to make q
teaspoonful OF calves-foot jelly. There is
only one counterpart to such man as
that aud that is the frothy young woman at
the watering pace, her conversation made
up of French moonshinc, what she has on her
head only cqualel by what sho has on her
back; useless ever since she was born, au,l to
be useless until sho is dead; and what they
will do with her in tho next world l 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 fan-
tastic influences Of our modern watering
places beware how you make life long COW
enlntS!
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that Of baneful litera-
ture. Almost every one starting off for tho
summer takes some reading matter. 1t Is q
book out of the library or off the book stand,
or bought of the boy hawking books through
the cars. really believe there is moro pes
tifcrous trash read among the Intelligent
classes in July and August than in oil the
other ton months Of the yoar. Men and wo-
men who at homo would not be satisfied with
book that was not really sensible I found
sitting on hotel piazIas or under the trees
reading books the index Of which woald
make them blush if they knew that you
knew what the book was.
Would it not be an awful thing for you to
be struck with lightning some day when You
had in your hand one Of these paper covered
romauccs-tho hero Partisan rouc,
the hcorino an unprinctplel flirt-chap-
tcrs in the book that You would not read to
dollars q limo! Throw out that stuff
from your summer baggage. Are tiero not
good books that are easy to read-boohs OF
congenial history, books Of pure fun, books
Of poetry ringing with merry canto, books Of
fine cngravings, books that will rest the
miad as well as purify the heart and elevate
the whole life? My hearers, thore will not
bc an hour between this and tho dly Of your
death when you can afford 10 read q book
lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering oil around
our watering places is tho intoxicating bev-
cragc. am told that it is becoming moro
fashionable for women to drink care noS
how we'll q woman may dress, il she has
taken enough Of wine to flush her check and
put glaSsineSs on her eyes she Is intoxicated.
She may be handed into $500 carriage AMI
havc diamonds enough to confound Tilfanys
she is intoxicated. She may be q graduate
of great Institute and tho daughter of
some man in danger Of being nominated for
tho Presidency-she is drunk. You may
have larger vocabulary than have, and
you may say in regard to her that she is
''convivial," or she is merry" or she is
Festive" or she is 'exhilerated," but you
cannot with oil your garlands OF verbiage
covor up the plain fact that it is OIL old
fashioned casa Of drunk.
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one spres
pitches him into eternal darkness. That's q
rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can you
find man who will be such q fool as that
When man goes down TO destruction
Satan brings him to plain. 1t is almost
level. The depression is so slight that
you can hardly Sc. it. That man does not
actually know that he is on the down
grade, and it tips only q little toward
darknesS--just little. And the first mile