Connecticut western news., 1891-03-18

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 Now, it Is these exhilarant and sym pathetic and warm hearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amuse ments. In proportion as ship is swift it wants 8 strong helmsman; in propor tion as horse is gay it wants a stout driver; and these people of exuberant nature will do we'll to look at the re- action of all their alnuse1nents If an amusements sends you home at night nervous so that you cannot sleep. and you rise up in the morning, not because you are slept out, but because your duty drags you from your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been.
 There are amusements that send man next day to his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong kinds of amusement. They gre entertainments that give a man dis gust with the drudgery of life, with tools because they are not swords, with working aprons because they are not robes. with cattle because they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any SSllOS J Ou 1O1IIC 4OI life of romance and thrilling advent ure, love that takes poison and shoots itself, moonlight adventures and hair breadth escapes you may depend upon it you are the sacrificed victim of un- sanctified pleasure. Our recreations are intended to build us up, and if they pull us down as to our moral or as to our physical strength, you may come to the conclusion that they are obnoxious. SLY AND ALLURING INSTALLATIONS. There is nothing more depraving than | attendance upon amusements that are | full of innuendo and low suggestion The young man enters At first he sits collar up, fearful that somebody there may know him. Several nights pass | on. He takes off his hat earlier and puts his coat collar down. The blush | that first came into his cheek when anything indecent was enacted comes no more to his cheek. Farewell, young man! You have probably started on the long road which ends in consum- mate destruction. The stars of hope will go out one by one until you will be left in utter darkness Hear you not the rush of the maelstrom, in whose outer circle your boat now dances, making merry with the whirling waters? But you are being drawn in, and the gentle motion will become terrific agi tation. You cry for help. In vain! You pull at the oar to put back, but the struggle will not avail! You will be tossed and dashed and shipwrecked and swallowed in the whirlpool that has already crushed in it's wrath ten thousand hulks.
 Young men who have just come from coun+r ry residence to city residence, you will do well to be on guard and let no one induce you to places of improper amusement It is nightly alluring when a young man, long a citizen, of fers to show new conner all around.
 Still further; those alnusements are wrong which lead you into expenditure beyond your means. Money spent in recreation is not thrown away It is amusement feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than the transaction that yielded you hundreds or thousands of dollars. But how many properties have been rid dled by costly amusements
 The first time I ever saw the city-it was the city of Philadelphia-1w was a mere lad. stopped at hotel, and remember in the eventide one of these mea piled me with his internal art He saw was green. He wanted to show me the sights of the town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like en- erald, but I was afraid of him. showed back from the basilisk. made member how he wheeled his chair round in front of me, and with concen- trated and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my soul, but there were good angels in the air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all encompassing grace of good God that delivered me. Beware! be- ware! oh, young man. "There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the o1O ClorOOI IS OoaGQ.
 The table has been robbed to pay the club. The champagne has cheated the children's wardrobe. The carous ing party has burned up the boys primer The tablecloth of the corner saloon is in debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in a day make tour around whole months wages, ladies whose lifetime business is to ''go shooping," large bets on horses, have their counterparts in uneducated chil dren, bankruptcies that shock the mon ey market and appal the church, and tbrlt send drunkenness staggering across the richly figured carpet Of the man- sion, and dashing into the mirror, and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of bloated sons come home to break their old mothers heart
 "OH, THE PITY OF IT!'
 1 saw a beautiful home, where the bell rang violently at night. The son had been off in sinful iildulgences His comrades were bringing him home. rang the bell at 1 o'clock in the morning. Father and mother came down. They were waiting for the wandering son, and then the comrades, as soon as the door was opened, threw the prodigal headlong into the doorway, crying, "Therc he is. drunk as a fool. Ha, haw When men go into amuse- ments that t,ley cannot afford they first borrow what they cannot earn, and then i:' " &t,s:l what they cannot borrnW. I'ir they 70 tito embarrass.