The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-15


heavy that in order to draw it you want
team stronger than one made Of
masculine grasshopper and feminine
butterfly
Another temptation that will hover
over the watering-place is that of bane-
full literature. Almost every one start
ing of for the summer takes some read
ing matter 1t is book out of the liz
brary or off the book stand, or bought
of the boy hawking books through the
cars, really believe there is more pes
tiferous 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 homo would
not be satisfied with book that was
not really sensible found sitting on
hotel piazzas or under the trees read.
ing books, the index of which would
make them blush If they know that
you knew what the book was.
Would 1t not be an awful thing for
you to be struck with lightning some
day when you had in your hand one Of
those paper-covered romances-the hero
a Partisan roue, the heroine an unprin.
cipled flirt-chapters in the book that
you would not read to your children at
the rate of one hundred dollors line!
Throw out that stuff from your
summer baggage. Are there not
good books that are easy TO read
books Of congenial history, books of
pure fun, books of poetry ringing with
merry canto, books of fine engravings,
books that will rest the mind as we'll as
purify the heart and elevate the whole
lifeP My hearers, there will not be an
hour between this and the day Of your
death when you can afford to read .
book lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all
around our watering-places is the in.
toXicating beverage. am told that il
is becoming more and more fashionable
for women to drink. l care not how
well women may dress, if she has
taken enough of wine to flush her cheek
and put glassiness on her eyes, she is
intoxicated. She may be handed
into ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS car.
riage, and have diamonds enough to con
found the Tiffanys-she is intoxicated.
She may be graduate of great in
stitute, and the daughter of some mar
In danger of being nominated for the
presidency-she is drunk. You may
have larger vocabulary than l have
and you may say in regard to her thai
she is 'convivial," or she is merry, u
or she is festive, or she is ''exhil
arated," but you can not with all YOU
garland of verbiage cover up the plair
fact that 1T is an old-fashioned case O.
drunk
Now, the watering places are full O
temptations to men and women to tip.
pie. At the close of the ten-pin OF
billiard game they tipple. At the close
of the cotillon they tipple. Seated OF
the piazza cooling themselves off, they
tipple The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws, and they tipple
First they take light Wines" as they
call them; but light wines" are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. 1t Il
not very long road between champagne
at five dollars per bottle and whisky a
five cents a glass
When man goes down to destruction
Satan brings him to plane. 1t is al
almost level. The depression is 81
slight that you can hardly see it. Tn,
man does not actually know that he il
on the down grade, and it tips only
little toward darkness-just little
And the first mile it is claret, and tn,
second mile it is sherry, and the thirC
mile it is punch, and thu
fourth mile it is ale, and thu
fifth mile it Is porter, and tn,
sixth mile it is brandy, and then it get
sleeper and sleeper, and the man get
frightened and says: "Oh, let me ge
OFF, No" says the conductor, "thi
is an express train, and it does not sto
until it gets to the grand Central Depo
of Smashupton. All, Look not tho,
upon the wine when it is red, and whel
it giveth its color in the CUP when il
moveth itself Alright At the last |
biteth like serpent and stingeth lik
an adder"
The Sc are watering places accessible
to all Of us. We do not have a labori
Gus packing-up before we start--only
the throwing away of our transgres
sions. No expensive hotel bills to pay
tits without money and without price.
No long and dirty travel before we ge
there-it is only one step away. Ii
California in five minutes l walket
around and saw ten fountains, all bub
bling up, and they were all different
And in five minutes l can go through
this Bible parterre and find you fit,
bright, sparkling fountains bubbling u
into eternal life.
A chemist will go to one Of these sun
mer watering places and take the waite
and analyze it and tell you that 1t cor
tains so much Of iron, and so much c
lime, and so much of magnesia. l com
to this Gospel well, this living fountain