Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-04

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and lobster salads, and cocoanuts, until tne
gastric juices lift up all their voices oflamenta
| tion and protest Delicate women and praln
less young men chassezng themselves INTO ter,
tigo and catalepsy. Thousands Of men ano
women coming back from our watering places
| in the autumn with the foundations iaio loi
ailments that will last them all their lie long
You know as well as dc, that this is the simple
| truth.
HASTILY FORMED ENGAGEMENTS.
Another temptation hovering around the
watering-place is to the formation of hasty and
lifelong alliances. The watering places are
responsible for more of the domestic infelici-
ties 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 companionshps amid such
circumstances go into lottery where there are
20 blanks To one prize. In the severe tug of life
you want more than glitter and splash. Lille is
not ball room where the music decides the
step, and bow and prance and graceful swing
Sae as the gy
painted yachts of a summer regatta tn fnd war
vessels as to go among the light spray of the
summer watering-place to hnd character that
can stand the test OF the great struggle of
human life. All, in the battle of life you want
q stronger weapon than lace fan or croQuet
mallet! The load OF life is SO heavy that in or
der to draw 1t, you want team stronger than
one made up Of masculine grasshopper and a
feminine butterfly.
If there is any man in the community that
excites my contempt. and that excites the con-
tempt 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 senu,
,1 mental soiers s and talking lnhni.ess nm m a
lavender kid-glove. Boots as tight as an In
QUESTION, two hours of consummate skill ex-
hibited IN the tie of flaming crayat bis con,
versation made up Of Abs" and "Oh's' and
"He-hee's." 1t would take 500 of them stewed
down to make q teaspooDful of calves-foot
jelly. There is only one counterpart to sucn
man as that, and that is the frothy young
woman at the watering-pl her conversation
made up of French moonshine; what she mas
on her head only eQualed by what she has on
her back; useless ever since she was born, ana
to be useless until she 10 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 inf ences of
our modern watering-pl beware how you
make lifelong covenants!
UNwHoLEsoME READING.
Another temptation that will hover over the
watering-place is that of baneful literature.
Almost every one starting off tor the summer
takes some reading matter. 1t is 8 book out of
the library or off the bookstand, or bought of
the boy hawking books through the cars.
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
lie satisfied with a book that was not really
sensible, found sitting on hotel piaz5as or
under the trees reading books the index Of
which would make them blush II they knew
that you knew what the book was.
"Oh," they say, You must have intellectual
recreatiour' Yes There is no need that yop
take along into a watering-place "HamIlton's
Metaphysics" 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 II propose now to give
little rest to nv digestive organs: and, instead
of eating heavy meat and vegetables. / will
for little while take lighter food-a little
strychnine and a few grains of ratsbane"
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 thing for you to be
struck with lightning some day when you had
in your hand one of these paper-covered ro-
mances-the hero Partisan roue, the heroine
an unprincipled hirt-chapters in the book that
you would not read to your children at the rate
of 500 line! Throw out that stuff from your
summer baggage. Are there not good books
that are easy to read-baoks of congenial his
tory, books Of pure fun. books of poetry ring
ing with merry canto, books of fine engFavings,s
books that will rest the mind as well as purify
the heart and elevate the whole lifef My hear
ers. 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.
THE CUP THAT INEBRIATEs.
Another temptation lowering all around our
watering places Is the Intoxicating beverage. I
am told that it is becoming more and more
fashionable for women to drink. care not
how well = woman may dress if she has taken
enough Of wine to flush her cheek and put
glassiness on her eyes, she is intoxicated. She
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diamonds enough to confound the Tiffanvs-
she is intoxicated. She may be a graduate of
great institute. and the daughter of some
man in danger of being nominated for the
Presidency-she is drunk. You may have a
larger vocabulary than have. and you may say
in regard 20 her that she is 'convivial." or she
is merry" or she is festive" she is 'exhil-
arated." but you cannot with all your garlands
of verbiage cover up the plain fact that it is an
old, fashioned case of drunk.
Now, She watering places are full of tempta-
tions to men and women 10 tipple. At the close
of the tenpin or billiard game they tipple. At
the close OF the cotillion they tipple. Seated
on the piazza cooling themselves off they tip
pie. The tinged glasses come around with
bright straws. ana they tipPle. First they take
light Wines" as they csIl them; but Eight
wines" are heavy enough to debase the appe-
tito. There is not long road between cham
pagne at IS per bottle and whisky at cents a
glass.
Satan has three or four grades down which
he takes men to destruction. One man be takes
up, and through one spree pitches him into
eternal darkness. That is rare case Very
seldom, indeed, can you find man who will be
such o fool as that.
When a man goes down to destruction Satan |
brings him to plane. 1t is almost a level,
The depression is SO Slight that yru can hardly |
see. The man does not actually know that he |
is on the down grade, and it tips only little |
toward darkness-just a little. And the drst |
mile it Is claret and the second mile 1t is sber-
ry and the third mile il is punch and the fourth
mile it is ale and the fifth mile it is port. and
the sixth mile it is brandy, and then il gets |
sleeper and sleeper, and the man gets fright |
ened and says, "Oh, let me get off ~ ''Non |
says the conductor, "this is an express train. |
and 1t does not stop until it gets to the Grand |
Central Depot of Smashupton." All, Look |
not thou upon the wine when it is red when it |
giveth its color in the cup, when moveth itself
Alright. At the last 1t biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder"
SAFETY FROM SIN.
Ny friends, whether you tarry at home
which will be quite as safe and perhaps anita
Is comfortaDl Dle-or 60 into the country. arm
yourself against temptation. The grace of God
Is the only safe shelter. whether in town or
country. There are watering places accessible
20 all Of us. You cannot open book OF the
Bible without finding out some such watering
place Fountains open for sin and uncleanli.
hess; wells of salvation; streams from Lebanon.
food struck out of the rock by Moses; foun.
aims in the wilderness discovered by Haear.
water TO drink and water to bathe in; the river |
If God, which is full of water; water of which
a man drink he shall never thirst. wells ~ |
water in the Valley of Baca; living fountains
IF water; pure river oil water as clear as |
,rystal from under the throne of God.
These are watering places accessible to all of
rs. We do not have a laborious packing nm he
lore we start-only the throwing away of onr