Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-08-15

looking to the turf for the dragon and light
cavalry horse. They found the turf depreci-
ates the stock, and it is yet worse for men,
Thomas Hughes, the Member Of Parliament
and the author, known all the world over
hearing that new turf enterprise was being
started in this country, wrote q letter in
which he said: Heaven help you, then; for
OF all the cankers Of our old civilization there
Is nothing in this country approaching in uu-
blushing meanness, in rascality holding its
high head, to this belaudei institution Of the
British turf"
| 60 further and speak of another tempta-
tion that hovers over the watering places,
and this Is the temptation to sacriics physi-
cal strength. The modern Bethesda was
meant to recuperate the physical health, and
yet how many come 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 sccus-
toned to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night
gossiping until or 2 o'clock in the morning
| Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their
health, mingling ice creams and lemons and
lobster salads and cocoanuts until the gastric
| juices lift up all their voices OF lamentation
and protest. Delicate women and brainless
young men chassszing themselves into verti-
go 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 all their
| life long. You know as well as do that this
is the simple truth.
In the summer you say to your good
health: Good by; lam going to have good
time for little while. / win be very glad
! tn see you again In ths 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 goingg'
| 'Oh, says Good Health, II am going to take
a vacation! 1t is a poor rule that will not
work both ways, and your good health will
leave you choleric aud splenetic and ex-
hausted You coquettei with your good
health in the summer time, aud your good
health is coquetting with you in the winter
time. A fragment Of Paurs 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 the formation OF hastv
and lifelong alliances The watering places
are responsible for more of the domestic in
felicites 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 companionships
amid 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 a ballroom
where the 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 go among the gayly painted Yachts Of
summer regatta to find war vessels as 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 want stronger
weapon than a lace fan or a croquet malleti
The load Of life is so heavy that in order TO
draw il you want team stronger than one
made up of masculine grasshopper and
feminine butterfly.
II there is any man in the community that
eIcites my contempt and that excites the
contempt OF every man and woman, it Is the
soft handed, soft-headei fop who, perfumed
| until the air Is actually sick, spends his sum
mer in taking killing attitudes and waving
sentimental adieus and talking infinitesimal
nothings, and finding his Esaven In the set OF
a lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an
inquisition, two hours OF cousummate skill
exhibited in the tie OF flaming cravat, his
conversation made mp of "Ah's' and
"Oh's" and "Hs-hee's" Il would take five
hundred OF them slowed down TO make a
teaspoontul 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 she has on her
head only equalst by what she has on her
back; useless ever since she was borD and to
be uIeless 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
tho River Of 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 fan
tastic influences OF our modern watering
places beware how you make life long COW
enantsl
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that OF baneful litera-
ture Almost every one starting OF for the
summer takes some reading matter II is a
book out Of the library or off the book stand,
or bought Of the boy hawking books through
the cars. really believe there is moro 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 home would not be sa tisisd with
book that was not really sensible, found
sitting on hotel piaZzas or under tho trees
reading books the index Of which would
make them blush II they knew that you
knew what the book was.
Would II 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 Partisan roue,
tho heorine an unprincipled firt-chap-
ters in the book that you would not read to
your children at the rate OF one hundred
dollars 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
| Hpa atyt, Hx1 hat ,,lt . L.
mind as well as purify the heart and elevate
the whole life: 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 intoxicating bev-
erage. l am told that it is becoming more
fashionable for women to drink. | care no
how well woman may dress, IL she ha!
taken enough of wine to flush her cheek anc
put glassiness on her eyes she is intoxicated
, She may be handed into a $500 carriage an
i have diamonds enough to confound Tiffany
she is intoxicated. She may be gradual
OF great institute and the daughter o
some man In danger of being nominated fol
, the Presidency-she is drunk. You ma,
have larger vocabulary than l have, ant
you may say in regard to her that she /
. ''convivial" or she Is merry or she |
, festive" or she is "exhilerated," but yol
, cannot with all your garlands OF verbiag
cover up the plain fact that 1t is an old
: fashioned case of drunk.
0 Satan has three or four grades dow
: which he takes men TO destruction. On
4 man he takes up, and through one spre
0 pitches him into eternal darkness That's
, rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can 20
t find man who will DO such fool as that.
Q When man goes down 10 destruction
b Satan brings him to plain. 1t is almos
d level. The depression is so slight tha
o you can hardly see 1t. That man does NJ
Q actually know that he is on the dow
darkness-just a little. And the first mi
. 1t is claret, and the second mile it is sherry
o and the third mile it Is punch, and th
q fourth mile Il Is ale, and the fifth mile it