The Opelousas courier., 1890-09-20

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Ego further and speak of another tsmpta-
ton that hoyers over the watering places,
and this is the temptation to sacrifice physl-
cal strength. The modern Bethesda was
meant to ~recuperate the physical health. and
yet how many como from the watering
places. their health absolutely destroyed!
New York and Brooklyn idiots boasting OF
having imbibed twenty glasses Of Congress
water before breakfast. Families aceus-
toned to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night
gossipina until l or 2 o'clock in tho morning.
Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their
health, mingling ice creams and lemons aud
lobster salads and ~cocoanuts until the gastric
juices lift up all their voices of lamentatlon
and protest. Delicate women and bratnless
young men chasseZing themselves into verCl-
60 and rataIepsy. Thousands OF men and
women coming back from our watering
| places in the autumn with the foundations
laid for ailments that will last them all their
life long. You know as we'll as do that this
Is the simple truth.
In the summer ycu say to your good
health: 'Good by; am going tohaye a good
time for little while. l will be very glad
10 see YOU again in the autumn" Then IN
the autumn, when you are hard at work IT.
your Office or shop or counting room, cool
Health viii come and say, GOOD by; am
tIYH III OH " c v III -Yo 1AAAS
TON says Good Health, II am going to take
d vacationl 1t is a poor rule that will not
work both ways, and your good health VIII
leave you choleric aud sptsnetlc and ex-
hausted. You coquetbel with your good
health in the sumlner time, AMI your good
health is coauetting with you in the winter
time. fragment of PauFs charge to the
iaiIer would he an appropriate inscription
for the hotel register in every watering place,
seDo thJself no harn.n
Another temptation lowering around the
watering place is to the formation Of hasty
and lifelong alliances. The watering places
arc responsible for more Of the domestic in
f~elicities 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 comprehensive
aiaid such circumstances go into a lottery
where there are twenty blanks to one prize.
In the severe tug of life you want more than
glitter and splash. Life is not 8 ballroom
where tho music decides the step,
and bow and prance and graceful
swing OF long trail can make up
for strong common sense. You may as
well 60 among the gayly painted yachts of a
summer regatta to find war vessels rs to GO
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.
All, in the battle of life you wan q stronger
weapon than a lace fan or a eroquet mallet!
Tho load of life is so heavy that in order to
draw il you want a team stronger than one
made up of n masculine grasshopper and a
eminin butterfly.
It there is any man in the community that
excites my contempt, and that cxcites the
contempt of every man anti woman, it is the
soft-hatdeti, soft-headel fop who, p%erfuned
until the air is actually sick, spends his surI-
ner III .agges.IFs killing attitudes and waving
sentimental adieus and talking infinitesimal
notilings, and finding his heavens in the set of
a lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an
lnquisition, two hours OF consuinmate skill
! exhibited in the tie of a flaming cravat, his
\ conversation made up OF aAlfsn aud
"Ohs' and "He-heo's.n 1t would take five
hundred of them slowed down to make n
teaspoonful of calves'-foot jelly. There is
only one counterpart to such o man as
that. and that is the frothy young woman ut
the watering place, her conversation mode
up of French moons1ine, whit sho has on her
head only equalel by what she has on her
back; useless ever since she was born; an Tito
be useless until she is 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 lock
sweet God intends us to admire music and
fair faces an. graceful step, but amid the
! ~ 9t@ bLNA ShE XIV eAEA-4 tAo A0A
tastic influences OF our modern watering
places beware how you make life long COW
enanfsl
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that OF baneful litera-
tare. Almost every IN starting of for the
summer takes some reading matter. 1t is a
book out of the library or OF 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 wo-
men who AT bome would not BIZ satisfied with
a 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 IL 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 these paper covered
romances-the hero q Partisan rouc,
the heorine an unprincipied firt-chap-
tiers in the book that you would not read to
your children at the rate OF . hundred
dollars a linai 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, booksof
fine engravings, books that will rest the
mind as well as purify the heart and elevate
I El1G NlO4C A1LCJ @ y AC&1s sASAS AFSS
be an hogv between this and the day OF your
death wren you can afford to read q 9
lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is thu Intoxicating bev-
erage. I am told hat it is becoming more
fashionable for wn:ne to drink. ] care not
Eatan has three or four grades dowr
which he takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one spree
1 rifaisaS him f1efa nNorr1ai Aa.fgrsncu f.f,nAs- a
rare case. Very seldom, ilnieed, can you
find a man who will be such d fool as that.
When q man goes down to destruction
Satan brings him toa plain. L. is almost
q level. The depression is so slight that
you can hardly see it. That man does moi
actually know that he is on the dowr
grade, and it tips only a little toward
darkness-just a little. And the first mile
ibIs claret, and the second mile it is sherry.
and the third mile it is punch, and the
fourth mile tits ale and the fifth milo it Il
porter, and the sixth mile it is brandy, and
then II gets sleeper and sleeper, AMI the mar
gets frightened and says, 's0h, let mo eel
orr NO. saysthe conductor, this il "A
express train md il does NOT gtop until ii ret.
- ire uraua GenpruI uepog OF SmasnupJon. /,
All, Hook not thon upon the wine when it L
red when it giyeth its color in the cup, when
it naoyeth itself Alright. At the last It bitetl
1ikea serpent and stingeth like an adtler.is
ny friends, whether You larry at home
which will be quite as safe and perhaps quit
ascosnfortable-or go into the country, arm
yourselves against temptation. Tho grace
of God is the only safe shelter, whether ir
town or country. There are watering place
accessible to all OF US. You caBnot open 3
book OF the Bible without finding out some
such watering place Fountains open for
sin and -uncleanliness; wells OF salvation;
streams from Lebanon; a food struck out o.