The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20

New York and Brooklyn idiots boasting Of
having imbibed twenty glasses of Congress
water before breakfast. Families accus-
TONED to going to bed at 10 o'clock OF night
gossiping until or 2 o'clock in the morning.
Dyspeptics usually very cautious about their
health, mingling ice creams AMI lemons and
lobster salads and cocoanuts until the gastric
juices lift up all their voices of lGnentation
and protest. Delicate women and brainles5
young men chassezing themselves into Terti-
20 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 oil their
life long. You know as we'll as do that this
is the simple truth.
In the summer you say tc your good
health: "Good by; lam going to have good
time for little while. will 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 going%
"Oh,h says Good Health, II am going to take
a vacation! 1t is poor rule that VIII VIII moi moi
leave you choleric and splenetic and e1.
hausted You coquetted with your good
health in the summer time, and your good
health is coquetting with you in the winter
time. A fragment Of Paul's charge to the
jailer would be an appropriate inscription
for the hotel register in every watering place,
'Do thYself no HARM"
Another temptation lowering around the
watering place is to thu formation of hasty
and lifelong alliances. The watering places
ara responsible for moro Of the domestic in
felicities Of this country than all the other
things combined. Society is so artih cial there
nf oh oota ha
formed. Those who form companioaships
amid such circumstances 60 into lottsry
where there are twenty blanks to one priza
In the severe tug of life you want more than
glitter and splash. Life is not ballroom
where the music decides the step,
and bow and pranc, AMI graceful
swing of long trail can make up
for strong common sense. You may as
we'll 90 among the gayiy painted yachts Of
summer regatta to find war vessels as to 60
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
weapon than lace fan or croquet mallet!
The load of life is so heavy that in order to
draw if you want team stronger than one
made up Of a masculine grasshopper and
feminine butterfly.
If there is any man in the community that
excites my contempt and that excites the
contempt Of every man and woman, it is the
softhanded, 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 inflnitesima
nothings and finding his heaven in the set OF
lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an
inquisition, two hours of consummate skill
exhibited in the tie Of flaming cravat, his
conversation male up Of "Ah's' and
"Oh's' and "He-hee's" 1t would take five
hundred Of them slowed down to make O
teaspoonful Of calves-foot jelly. There is
only one counterpart to such man as
that, and that is the frothy young woman at
the watering pace her conversation made
up Of French moonshine, what shs has on her
head only equalsl by what she has on her
back; useless ever since she was borD, AMI to
be useless until she is dead; and what they
will do with her in tho next world do not
know except to set her upon the banks OF
tho River Of Life for all eternity to look
sweet God intends us to admire music and
Ialr races AMI graceful step, but amid the
heartlessnc,s g and the imitation and the fau-
tastic influences Of our modern watering
places beware how you make life long GOV.
enants!
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering placo is that of baneful litera-
ture. Almost every one starting of for the
summer takes soma reading matter. 1t is
book out of tho library o: or tho book stand,
or bought Of the boy hawking books through
the cars. I really believe there is more pes
tiferous trash read among the intelligent
classes in July and August than in all tho
other ten months Of the year. Men and wo-
men who at homo would not be satisfied with
book that was not really sensible, I found
sitting on hotel piazzas or under the trees
reading books the index Of which would
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 thess paper covered
romauccs-the hero O Partisan roue
tho heorine an unprincipled 1irt-chap-
ters in the book that you would not read to
your children at the rate OF one hundred
dollars linel Throw out that stuff
from your summer baggage. Arc thero not
good books that are easy to read-books OF
oengsaial history books =; IS Of pure fun books ks
fine cngravings books that will rest the
mind as we'll as purify tho heart and elevate
the whole lfe9 Ny hearers thero will not
be All hour between this and tho day Of your
death when you eau afford to real book
lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering oil around
our watering places is tho intoxicating bev-
erage. am told that it is becoming moro
fashionable for women to drink. I caro- not
how we'll woman may dress II sac has
taken enough of wine to flush her chess and
put glassiness on her eyes she Is intoxicated.
She may bs handed into $500 carriage and
have diamonds enough ID confound Tifanys
she is intoxicated. She may bsa graduate
OF great institute and tho daughter Of
some man in danger o; being nominated for
have larger vocabulary than I have, and
you may say in regard to her that she. is
''convivial," or she is merry" or she Is
"festive,n or she is ''exhilerated," but you
cannot with all your garlands Of verbiage
cover up the plain fact that 1t Is on old
fashioned casa of drnniL
Satan has three or four grades down
which he takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one spree
pitches him into eternal darkness. That's
rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can you
find man who will be such fool as that.
When man goes down to destruction
Satan brings him to plain. It is almost
q level. The depression is so slight that
you can hardly seq it. That man does not
actually know that he is on the down
grade, and it tips only q little toward
darkness-just q little. And the first mile
it is claret, and the second mile it is sherry,
and the third mile it is punch, and the
fourth mile tits ale, and the fifth mile it is
porter. and the sixth mile it is lsrandy, and
then it gets sleeper and sleeper, anl the man
gets frightened and says oh, let me get
OFF, "No," says the conductor, ''this is IN
express train and it does not stop until it gets
to the Grand Central depot of Slnashupton."
All, "look not thou upon the wine when it is
red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when
it moveth itself Alright. At tho last it biteth
like a serpent and stingeth like an adder"
My friends, W neither you tarry at home
which will be quite rs safe and nerhans nuita