Connecticut western news., 1890-08-06

breakfast. Families accustomed to go- ing to bed at 10 o'clock at night gossip ing until 1 or 3 o'clock in the morning. Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their health, mingling ice creams and lemons and lobster salads and cocoa nuts until the gastric juices lift up all their voices of lamentation and protest. Delicate women and brainless young men chassezing themselves into vertigo and catalepsy. Thousands of men and women coming back from our water ing 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.
 GooD-BY, GOOD HEALTH.
 In the summer you say to your good health 'Good-by; am going to have good time for little while. 1 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 go- ing" You say, ''Where are you go- ing2" "Oh," says Good Health, II am going to take vacationp It is a poor rule that will not work both ways, and your good health will leave you choleric and splenetic and exhausted. 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 Paurs charge to the jailer would be an appro- priate inscription for the hotel register in every watering place, Do thyseh no harm."
 Another temptation lowering around the watering place is to the formation of nasty and life long alliances. The watering places are responsible for more of the domestic infehcities of this country than all the other things com bined. Society is so artificial there that no sure judgment of character can be formed. Those who form compan- ionships amid such circumstances go into 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 ball room where the muslc decides the step, and bow and prance and graceful swing of long trial can make up for strong common sense. You may az well go among the gayly painted yachts of summer re- gatta to find war vessels as to go among the light spray of the summer watering place to find character that can stand the test of the great struggle of human life. An, in the battle of life you want a stronger weapon than lace fan or a croquet mallet! The load of life is so heavy that in order to draw it you want team stronger than one made up of masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterfly.
 WORD ABOUT THE DUDE.
 If there is any man in the communi- ty that excites my contempt, and that excites the contempt of every man and woman, it is the soft handed, soft headed flop who, perfumed until the air is actually sick, spends his summer in taking killing attitudes, and waving sentimental adieus, and talking infin. itesimal nothings, and finding his heav. en 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 conver- sation made up of ''Ah's" and "Oh's' and "He-hee's." It would take five hundred of them stewed down tc make teaspoonful of calf's foot jelly. There is only one counterpart to such a man as that, and that is the frothy young woman at the watering place her conversation made up of French moonshine; what she has on her head only equaled by what she has on hel back; useless ever since she was born, and to be useless until she is dead. And what they will do with her in the next world I do not know, except tc set her upon the banks of the River ot Life for all eternity to look sweet God intends us to admire music and fair faces and graceful step, but amid the heartlessness, and the imitation, and the fantastic influences of our modern watering places beware how you make life long covenants
 Another temptation that will hover over the watering place is that of bane ful literature. Almost every one start ing off for the summer takes some reading matter. It is book out o1 the library or off the book stand, o1 bought of the boy hawking book. through the cars. really believe there is more pestiferous trash read amone the intelligent classes in July and Au gust than in all the other ten months of the year. Men and women who al home would not be satisfied with 6 book that was not really sensible found sitting on hotel piazzas or under the trees reading books the index o1 which would make them blush if they knew that you knew what the book was.
 SHUN BANEFUL LITERATURE.
 ''Oh," they say, ''you must have in tellectual recreationw Yes. There is no need that you take along into a watering place 'tHamilton's Metaphys- ics," or some thunderous discourse on the eternal decrees, or "Faraday's Philosophy" There are many easy books that are good. You might as we'll say, ''1 propose now to give little rest to my digestive organs, and in stead of eating heavy meat and vege- tables I will for a little while take lighter food-a little strychnine and a few grains of ratsbane." Literary poi son in August is as bad as literary poison in December. Mark that. Do not let the frogs and the lice of a cor rupt printing press jump and crawl