The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-15
more than glitter and splasl

sense. You may as well go among
the gayly palnte | yachts Ola summer
regatta to find war vessels rs to 90
among the light spray of the summer
Watering place to and character that
can stand the test Of the great Stru@-
gle Of human life. All. i'll the battle
than llcc fan or Il crouuet mallct.
The load OF life is SO heavy that in
order to draw it. YOU want Il team
stronger than one made mp of mas
culinc grasSh0ppcr AMI II feminine
butterfly.
Another temptation that will hover
over the watering place is that of
buncful literature. Almost every one
starting of for the summer takes
some reading matter. 1t is book
out OF the library or off the book
stand, or bought of the boy hawking
books through the cars. really be-
licvc there is more pcstifcrous trash
read among the intelligent classes III
july and August than III ali the other
ten months OF the year. Men and
women who ut homo would not be
satisfied with IL book that was not
really sensible, | found sitting on
hotel piazIas OF under the trees read
ing books the index Of which would
make them blush if they knew that
YOU knew what the book was.
"Oh. they say, you must have in
tcl.%ctual rccrcationl Yes. There
: no need that you take alou" into IL
watering" place "Hnmlt0u's : M"ta.
A., ] !.
coarse on the eternal d"crccs or
"frraday's 5 Philosophy. There are
many easy books that are .,oud. You
might 1t, we'll say: Il propose now
10 give Il little rest to my digestive
rs;tnS: an,,, instead Of cn;img heavy
meat anl vegetables. [ will for lit
tie while take lighter food-a little
strychninc and few grains of rats
hanc. Literary poison in August is
rs bad rs literary poison i; Dcccm-
Der. Mark that. DO not let the
frogs and the lice of II corrupt print
ing press jump and crawl INTO your
Saratoga trunk or White Mountain
vnlicC
Moulu 1t not be a,i awful thing for
YOU to b. struck with lightning some
lay when YOU mad in your hand one
oi those vpapCr-v0Ncrctr romanccs e.. the
aero oI Il Partisan rouc. the heroine
IN uuprinciplcd iiirt chapters IN the
book That YOU woulu not read 10 your
children n the rate Of SiOn II line
Throw out ;hat stuff from your sum
mcr baggage. Are there not GOOD
BOOKS that arc easy to rCad-buukS
of coug"nial history. books OF pure
fun. books of poetry ringing with
merry canto. books OF fine cngrav.
inGs. books that will rest the mind rs
well rs purify the heart and elevate
the whole life! Ny hearers. there
will not bc an hour between this and
the day of yOu death when you can
afford to read book lackin" in
moral principle
Another temptation lowering all
around our watering places Is the in
toN,catmg beverage. | am told that
II is becoming more and more fashion
able for women to drink. care not
how we'll Il woman may dress. i! she
has taken enough Of wine to flush her
check and pat gltSSincSS on her ewes.
she is intoxicated She may be- hand
cd into Il $4,000 carriage. and have
diamonds enough to confound the
Titfanys is intoXicatcd She
may be Il graduate of Il great institute
and the dauGhtcr Of some man in
Ft,ns .<sr~oT ins-tsefssi. s.usst tei- the
p"csidcncy-shc is drunk. You may
have II larger vocabulary than | have.
and you may say III regard TO her
that she is "cOnvivial or she is
merry. on she is ''fcS.ivc, or she is
"cXlilaratcl. but YOU cannot with
all your garlands of vcrbiagc cover
up tn" plain fact that it is IN old
fashioned case of drunk.
My friends. whether you tarry at
ut homo which will be quite aS safe
and perhaps quite rs comfortable or
go INTO the country, arm yourself
against temptation. The grace Of
GOd Is tn" only safe shelter. whether
IN town OF country. There arc water.
ING places accessible 10 I'LL Of rs. NOu
cam"l open Il book Of the Biblcwith
0ul finding out some such watrr!n.
place Fountains open for sin an |
1uc!raNln"s>. well, Oi salvation:
streams from i."bpmon: lionh struck
Dut "E the rock by Moses: fo,Mjanr;
~ til" wilderness discovered hv
'la@,n: water 60 drink AMI waiter ia
bathC III. the river Of God. WhlcM !,
full OF water; water OF which # :, man
drink he shall never thirst. wells 81
water III the valley Of Baca; living
fountains of water: Il pure river of