Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-03-21

pathetic and warm hearted people that
arc most tempted to pernicious alnusc-
ments In proportion as a ship is swift
it wants strong hellnslnan; in proper
ton as a horse is gay it wants stout
driver; and these people of exuberant
nature will do we'll to look at the re-
nction OF all their amusements. If an
amusemcnts sends you home at night
nervous so that you cannot sleep, and
you rise UP in tho morning, not because
you are slept out, but because your
duty drags you from your sluInbers,
you have been where you ought not to
have been.
There are aunusements that send a
man next day to his worl, bloodsllot,
yawning, stupid, nauseatcd. and they
are wrong kinds of amusement. They
are terttai,line that give O man dis
gust will drdd CORY of with
Tools: because tho sare S. ST swords with
working aprons because stlley arenot
robes with cattle because they arc not
infnrriated Bulls Of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing for
a life OF romance and thrilling advent
ure. love that takes poison and shoots
itself, moonlight adventures end hair
breadth escapes, you may depend upon
it YOU arc the sacrificed victim of un-
sanctined pleasure. Oar racreations
arc intended to build us up, and if they
pull us down rs TO our moral or rs to
our physical strength, you may cone to
the conclusion that they are obnoxious
SLY AND lLLUEING DESTINATIONS.
There smoothing Elorc depraving than
attendance upon amusemcnts that are
full of innuendo md low suggestion.
The young man enters. at first lo sits
far back, with his hat on and his coat
collar up, fearful that somebody there
may know him. Several nights pass
On. lie takes of his lat earlier and
puts his coat collar down. Tile blush
that first came into his cheek when
anything indecent was enacted comes
no more to his check. Farewell, young
mani You have probably started on
the long road which ends in consum-
mate destruction. The stars of hope
will go out one by ono until you Will
be left in utter darkness. Hear you
not the rush of the maelstron, in whose
outer circle your boat now dances,
making merry with the whirlins watersa
But you arc 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 viii not avail You will
be tossed and dashed and shipwrcclSed
md swallowed in the whirlpool that
has already crushed in its wrath ten
thousand hulks.
Young men who have just como from
country residence to city residence, yoa
will do well to be On guard and let no
one induce you to places of improper
amusement. 1t is nightly alluring
when young man, long citizen, Of
fers to show a new conner all around.
Stiffrfurtter;- those amusenicnts are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. II is
all folly for us to come from place Of
amusement feeling that we have wasted
our money and time. You may by it
have mode on investment worth more
than the transaction that yielded you
hundreds or thousands Of dollars. But
how many properties have been rid
died by costly anusements.
The first time ever saw the city-it
was the city of Philadelphia was
mere lad l stopped at u hotel, and ]
rememberin tho cvcntide ono of these
men piled me with his internal AFT. lie
saw was green. He wanted to show
me tho sights of the town. He painted
the path Of sin until it looked like en-
erald, but I was afraid of him. l
showed back from The basilisk made
up my mind he was basilislz 1 re-
member how he wheeled his chair
round in front of me, and with q concen-
trated and diabolical effort attempted
to destroy my soul, but there were good
angels in the air that night. 1t was no
good resolution on my part, but it was
the all encompassing grace of a good
God that delivered me. Beware! be-
ware oh, young man. ''Therc is a
way that seemeth right unto q man,
but the end thereof is death.
The table has been robbed to pay
the club. The champagne las cheated
the children's wardrobe The carous-
ing party has burned up the boys
primer. The tablccloth of the corner
saloon is in debt to the wife's faded
dress. Excursions that in day make
q tour around whole months wages,
ladies whose lifetime business is to go
shopping" large bets on horses, have
their counterparts in unedrcated chill
dren, bankruptcies that shock the mon
ey market and appal the church, and
that send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet of tho man
sion, and ;dashing into the mirror, and
drowning out the carol of music with
the whooping of bloatcd sons come
home to break their old mothers heart.
''oE, THE PITY OF IT!n
SOW beautiful home, where the
bell rang violently at night. The son
had been off in sinful indhlgences. His
comrades were bringing him home.
They carried him to the door They
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,
rs soon rs the door was opened, threw
the Drodical headlong into the doorway,