The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-08-14

pfopiiato inscription for the. hotel
register III every watering place: do
thyself no harH."
Another temptation towering
around the watering place is the for.
nation OF hasty and lifc-lon ALLAN,
ces. Inc watering places are re-
Sponsib!e lor more of the domestic in
IeilclticS oil THIS country than i'll the
other things combined. Socictvis So
artificial there that no sure Judgment
or character can be formed. Those
VINO form companionships amid such
circumstances go into lottery
where there arc twenty blanks to one
prize. In the severe tug of life YOU
want more than glitter and splash.
Lille IS not a ball room where the
music decides the step, and bow and
prancc and .gaccful swing of long
trail can make up for strong commo.
sense. You may as well go amonn
tho gayly paintel / yachts ofa summer
regatta to find war vessels as TO 90
among the light spray of the summc,
watering place to and character that
can stand the test Of the great strug
gle OF human life. All, in the battle
OF lie you want Il stronger weapon
than Il lace fan or u crouuet mallct,
The load 81 life is SO heavy that in
order to draw it, YOU want team
stronger thnn one made up Of a mas
culinc grasshoppcr and n feminine
butterfly.
Another temptation that will hover
over tn" waterlnG place is that of
Dancfui literature. Almost every one
starting of for the summer takes
some reading NATTER 1t is book
out Of the library or off the book
stand, or bought of the boy hawking
books through the cars. l really be,
hcVc there IS more pcStiferous trash
read among the Intelligent classes in
July and August than in all the other
ten months of the year. Men and
women who ut home would not be
satisfied with q book that was not
rcall y sensible, | found sitting on
hotel riazzas or under the trees read
ing books the index Of which would
make them blush if they knew that
YOU knew what the book was.
ION, they say, you must have in,
tcllcctual recreationl" Yes. There
Is no need that YOU take along into Il
Watering place ''Humlton's Meta
physics or some thundcrous lis
course ON tic eternal drcrccs. on
"faraday y Philosophy. There arc
many easy books that are good E0u
might Us well say: i propose now
TO give little rest 10 my digestive
organs: and, instead OF cutiny heavy,
meat and vegetables. l Will for a lit
II" while take lighter food-a little
strychnlnc and a few grains of rats
hanc. Literary poison IN August is
nA bad rs literary poison in Deem
Der Mark that. DO not let the
frogs and the lice Of corrupt print
ing press Jump and crawl into your
Saratoga trunk or White Mountain
vuli,'c.
Would it not be IN awful thing for
Nou to b" struck with lightnin. some
d1T when YOU ha1 in yO,,r hand one
OF those paper cOvcrrdrom&ncrs-- the
nero "l Il Parisian rou", the heroine
an unpriMciplcl chapters in the
book that You would not read to your
rhli,u"n ut the rate of 500 a line.
Throw out that stuff from your sum
mcr baggage. Arc thorc not good
books that arc easy to rcad-boOks
OF congcniai history, books of pure
iun, books Of poetry ringing with
merry canto, books of fine cngrav-
lngs, books that will rest the mind us
we'll as purify thc heart and elevate
the whole life. My hearers, there
will not be m hour between this and
the day of your death when you can
afford to read a book lacking in
moral principle.
Another temptation lowering all
around our watering places is the in
toNlcatlng beverage. I am told that
1t IS becoming more and more fashion
able for women to drink. / care not
how we'll woman may dress, if she
has taken enough of wine to flush her
check and put Slassincss on her ewes.
she is intoxicated. She may be hand
ed INTO $4,000 carriage, and have
diamonds enough to confound the
Iiffanys-shc is intoxicated. She
may be a graduate of a great institute
and the daughter OF some man III
danger Of being nominated for the
prcsldency--shc is drunk. You may
have a larger vocabulary than L have,
and you may say in regard to her
that she is "convivial" or she is
merry, or she is "fcs:ivc," or she is
"eXhilaratcd, but you cannot with
all your garlands of vcrbiagc cover
up the plain fact that it is m old
fashioned case of drunk.
My friends, whether You tarry at
at homc--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 the only safe shelter, whether
IN town or country. There are water
ing places accessible TO all of us. You
cannot open book Of the Bible with
out finding out some such Watering
place. Fountains open for sin and
unclcanllncHs: wells of salvation;
streams from Lebanon: food struck
out o. the rock by Moses; fountains
III the wilderness discovered by
llaGar; water to drink and water to
bathc IN; the river Of God, which il