News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-07
up of a masculine grasshopper and a
feminine butterfly.

! headed Top VINO, peftu1ned 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 lavender kid glove;
boots as tight as an inquisition; two
| hours of consummate skill exhibited in
the tie of flaming cravat; his CONVEX
sation made up of ''Ah's' and "Oh's'
and ''He-hee's." 1t would take five
hundred of them stewed down to
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
inoonshine; what she has on her head
only equaled by what she has on her
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 l do not know. except to
set her upon the banks of the 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 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-
full literature. Almost every one start
ing off for the summer takes some
/ = g, oF
the library or off the book stand, or
bought of the boy hawking books
through the cars. l really believe there
is more pestiferous trash read among
| the intelligent classes in July and Au-
gust than in all the other ten months
of the year. Men and women who at
home would not be satisfied with a
| book that was not really sensible l
found sitting on hotel piazzas OF under
the trees reading books the index of
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 recreation!" Yes. There is
no need that you take along into a
watering place ''Hamilton's Metaphys-
ics.' or some thunderous discourse on
the eternal DEGREES, or ''Faraday's
Philosophy" There are many easy
books that are good. You might as
well say, Il propose now to give little
rest to my digestive organs, and in
stead of eating heavy meat and vege-
tables | will for little while take
lighter food-a little strychnine and
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 cor
rupt printing press jump and crawl
into your Saratoga trunk or White
mountain valise.
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 Partisan roue, the heroine an
unprincipled flirt-chapters in the book
that you would not read to your chill
dren at the rate of 800 line Throw
out that stuff from your summer bag
gage 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 fine engravings, books that will rest
the 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 in
toxicating beverage. L am told that it
is becoming more and more fashionable
for women to drink. l care not how
well a woman may dress, If she has
taken enough of wine to flush her
cheeks and put glassiness on her eyes
she is intoxicated. She may be handed
into u 81, 500 carriage, and have dia-
monds enough to confound the Tiffanys
she is intoxicated She may be a
graduate of a great institute, and the
daughter of some man in danger of be-
ing nominated for the presidency-she
is drunk. You may have q larger vo-
cabulary than | have, and you may
say in regard to her that she is ICON
vivial," or she is merry" or she is
festive" or she is "exhilarated, F." but
you cannot with all your garlands Of
verbiage cover up the plain fact that it
is an old fashioned case of drunk.
Now the watering places are full of
temptations to men and women to tip
pie. At the close of the tenpin or bill
lard game they tipple. At the close
of the cotillion they tipple Seated on
the piazza cooling themselves off they
tipple: The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws and they tipple.
First they take light wines" as they
call them; but light wines" are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There
is not a very long road between cham
payne at five dollars per bottle and
whisky at five cents IL glass
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 dark
ness. That is rare case. Very sell
dom, indeed, can you find man who
will be such a fool as that.
When a man goes down to destruc-
ton Satan brings him to "a plane. 1t
is almost level The depression is so
slight that you can hardly see it. The
man does not actually know that he is
on the down grade, and it tips only
little toward darkness-iust 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 it
is ale, and the fifth mile it is porter
and the sixth mile it is brandy, and
then it gets sleeper and sleeper, and
the man gets frightened and says, ooh,
let me get off, No" says the con
ductOr, this is an express train, and it
does not stop until il gets to the Grand
Central Depot of Smashupton 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
the last it biteth like serpent and
stingeth like an adder"
ARM YOURSELVES
My friends, whether you tarry at
home-which will be quite as safe and
perhaps quite as comfortable-or go
into the country, arm yourselves against
temptation. The grace of God is the
only safe shelter, whether in town or
country. There are watering places
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