Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-08

III VI dll lHc CdlhcIS Vi our OlQ clNlllZl-
ton there is nothing in this country APP
preaching in mblushing mcanncss, in
rascality holding its head high. to this
belaudcd institution of the British turf"
Another famous sportsman writes.
How many fine domains have been
shared among these hosts of rapacious
sharks during the last two hundred years,
and unless the system be altered how
same gulf?" The Duke of Hamilton.
through his horse racing proclivitics, in
three years got through his entire for
tune of $3.50, 1000, and | will saw that some
OF you are being undermined by it. With
the bull fights of Spain and the bear
! baitings of the pit may the Lord God
annihilate the infamous and accursedl
horse racing of England and America.
1 go further, and speak of another
temptation that hovers over the water
ing places, and this is the temptation to
sacrifice physical 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 i'm
bibed twenty glasses of congress water
| before breakfast. Families accustomed
| to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night
gossiping until 1 or 2 o'clock in the
morning. Dyspeptics, usually very eau
| tlous 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 chasseZing themselves into
vertigo 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 we'll as do that this is the simple
truth.
In the summer you say to your good
health: "Good-by; 1 am going to have
a good time for a little while 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" Won say, ''Where are you go
ing?' ''Oh." says Good Health, Il am
going to take Il vacation!'' 1t 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 i'll the
summer time, and your good health is
coquetting with you in the winter time
A fragment of Panfs charge to the jailcr
would be an appropriate inscription for
the hotel register i'll every watering
place place, '.Do thysclf no harm.''
| Another temptation lowering around
the watering place is to the formation of
hasty and life long alliances The
watering places are responsible for more
of the domestic infelicitcs 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 Il 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 ball room where the music decides
, the step, and bow aud prance and grace
full swing of long trial can make mp fol
!, strong common sense. You may as wei
| go among the gayly painted yachts of ;
: summer regatta to find war vessels as t.
n go among the light spray OF the summc
e watering place to find character that GA
!, stand the test of the great struggle o
| human life. All. in the battle of life yol
|
{ or a croquet mallct! The load of life i.
. so heavy that i'm order to draw ii you
want u team stronger than one made M
of a masculine grasshopper and a femin
inc butterfly.
If there is any man in the community
that eXcites my contempt, and that ex.
cites the contempt of every man and wo
! man, it is the soft handed, soft headed
fop who, perfumed until the air is actu.
ally sick, spends his summer in takine
killing attitudes, and waving sentimental
adieus, and talking infinitesimal MOTH:
ings, and finding his heaven 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 conversation made up of
"Ah's" and 'sOh's" and 'sHe-hee's." 1t
would take five hundred of them stewed
down to make teaspoonful of calls
foot jelly. There is only one counterpart
to such 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
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 do not know, except to set
her upon the banks of the River Of Life
for all eternity to look sweet! God in
tends us to admire music and fair faces
and graceful step, but amid the heart
lessness, and the imitation, and the fam
tastic 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 read
ing matter. 1t 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 more pestif-
erous trash read among the intelligent
classes in July and August than in all
the other ten months of the year. Men
and women who at home would not be
satisfied with book that was not really
sensible found sitting on hotel piazzas
or under the trees reading books the in
dex of which would make them blush if
they knew that you knew what the book
| was.
s'Oh," they say, ''you must have intel
lectual recreation!'' Yes. There is no
need that you take along into a water
| ing place "Hamilton's Metaphysics" or
some thunderous discourse on the eternal