Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-14

looking TO the turf for the dragoon and ligh
cavalry horse. They found the turf deprcci
ates the stock, and 1t is yet worse for men
Thomas Hughes, the Member of Parliamen
and the author, known all the world over
hearing that new turf enterprise was being
stsI Ted In this country, wrote O letter In
which he said: Heaven help you, then; fol
OF all the cankers of our old civilization there
IS nothing in this country approaching In un-
blushing meanness, in rascality holding its
high head, to this belauded institution OF the
British turf"
go further and speak Of another tempta-
ton that hovers over the watering places,
and this is the temptation to sacrifice physi
cal strength. The modern Bethesda was
meant to recuperate the physical health. and
yet how many come from the watering
places their health absolutely destroyed
New York and Brooklyn idiots Boosting of
having imbibed twenty glasses Of Congress
water before breakfast. Families accus-
toned to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night
gossiping until or o'clock In the morning
Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their
health, mingling ice creams ard lemons and
lobster salads and cocoanuts until the gastric
juices lift up all their voices OF lamentation
and protest. Delicate women and brainless
/ young men chnssezing themselves into yorti-
20 and catalepsy. Thousands Of nen and
women coming back from our watering
places in the autumn with tho foundations
laid for ailments that will last them all their
life long. You know as well as do that this
is the simple truth.
In the summer you say to your good
health: "Gcod by; lam going TO have good
time for a little while. viii be very glad
to see you again In the autumn" Then In
the autumn, when you are hard at work in
your Office or shop or counting room, Good
Health will come and say, Good by; am
going" You say, Where are you goingT
IA. -
q vacationl 1t is poor rule that will not
work both ways, and your good health will
leave you choleric and spenetic and OK
hausted You coquetted with your GOO
health in the summer time, and your goo
health is coquetting with you In the white,
time. A fragment OF Pauls charge TO b
jailer would be an appropriate inscript0
for the hotel register in every watering place.
"Do thEself no HARM
Another temptation lowering around the
watering place is TO the formation OF hasty
and lifelong alliances Ths watering places
are responsible for more OF the domestic in
telicitles of this country than all the other
things combined. Sj;iety is so artificial there
that no sure Judgment OF character can DO
formed. Those VINO form companioaships
amid such circumstances go into lottery
where there are twenty blanks 10 one prize
In tbs severe tug OF life you want more than
glitter and splash. Life is not ballroom
where the music decides the step
and bow and prance and graceful
for strong common sense. You may as
well go among the gayly painted Yacats OF IA
summer re yatta 10 find war vessels as to 20
among the light spray Of the summer water
ing place 70 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 fau or a croquet mallet
The load OF life is so heavy that in order TO
draw II you want a team stronger than one
made up OF masculine grasshopper aud a
feminine butterfly.
II there is any man in the community that
excites my contempt and that excites the
contempt of every man anil woman, IL is the
sott-handed, 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 inhnitesimai
nothings, and finding his heaven 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
conversation made up OF "Ah'sn and
"Oh's" and "He-hees." 1t would take five
hundred OF them slowed down to make a
teaspoonful OF calves'-foot jelly There Is
only one counterpart to such a man as
that and that is the frothy young woman at
tine watering place, her conversation made
up OF French moonshinc, what she has on her
1850 oaAf tIAat1A W Mhhl ouf nus Ol ucT
back; useless ever since she was born, and TO
be useless until she is dead; aud what they
will do with her in the next world do not
know, except 10 set her upon the banks OF
the River Of kife for all eternity to look
sweet God intends US to admire music and
heartlessness and the imitation and the fan
tastic influences OF our modern watering
places beware how you make life long GOV.
enantsl
Another temptation that win hover over
the watering place is that OF baneful litera-
ture. Almost every one starting of for the
summer takes some reading matter. II lisa
book out of the library or Off the book stand,
or bought of the boy ha king books through
the cars. / really believe there is more pes
tiferous trash read among tho Intelligent
classes in July and August than In ali the
other ten months Of the yoar. Men and wo-
men 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 il they know that you
know 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 ono OF these paper covered
hero a Partisan roue,
the heorine an unprincipled iirt-chap-
tiers in tho book that you would not read To
your children at the rate OF one hundred
dollars a linel Throw out that stuff
from your summer baggage. Are there not
good books that are easy TO road-books of
history, books OF pure fun, books
Of poetry ringing with merry cauto, books of
fine engravings, books that will rcst the
mind as well as purify the heart and elevate
the whole lifeS Ny hearers there will not
be an hour between this and the day OK your
death when you can afford 10 read a book
lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all around
our Watering places is the intoxicating bev-
erage. am told that it is becoming more
fashionable for women to drink / care not
how well a woman may dress, IL she has
taken enough Of vine to flush her cheek and
put glassiness on her eyes she Is intoxicated.
She may be handed into $500 carriage and
have diamonds enough TO confound Tiifanys
she is intoxicated. She may be graduate
Of great institute aud the daughter OF
some man in danger OF being nominated for
the Presidency-sho is drunk You NAV
have a larger vocabulary than have and
you may say in regard to her that she &
cornwall or she is merry or she Z
festive or sho Is 'exhilerated.n but YOU
cannot with all your garlands OF verbfage
,over up the plain fact that IL Is an old