Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-06-22

/ 20 a Heaven fun of sonrsters 20 the
/ Miss OF dragon? Why turn back from
/ the mountain side all abloom with
wild flowers and adash with toe MIN
/ bic torrents, and with bliStered feet
attempt TO climb the hot sides of Coto-
paNi?
/ Now, al opera houses. theaters.
/ lowing alleys. skating Kinks and all
styles OF amusement. good and bad.
put on trial to-day and Judge OF them
Tor certain cardinal principals First.
YOU may judge of amy amusement by
is healthful result or bv its baneful
reaction There are people who seem
made M OF hard facts They are "a com
bination of multiplication tables and
statistics. II You show them an ex-
Quisite picture they will begin
10 discuss the pigments involved
in the coloring; II You show them a
beautiful rose they viii submit IL to
a botanical analysis, which is only the
] post-mortem examination OF a flower.
I They never do anything more than
feebly smile. There are no great tides
OF feeling Surging mp from the depth
of their soul in billow after billow of
reverberating laughter. They seem rs
II Nature had built them by contract
and made bungling Job cut of
it, But, blessed be God. there are
people in the world who have bright
faces and whose life is song.
an anthem, paean of victory. Ev-
en- their troubles are like the vines
that crawl mp the side OF n great
tower, on the top OF which the sun
/ light sits and the soft airs OF summer
hold perpetual carnival They are the
people YOU like TO have come TO Your
house; they are the people l like to
have come 20 my house. Now. il is
these eNhilarant and sympathetic and
warm-henrted people that are most
tempted TO pernicious amusements.
In proportion as a ship is swift it
wants n strong helmsman; in propor-
ton as a horse is gay it wants
strong driver; and these people
OF eNuberant nature will do we'll
TO look ut the reaction of ali
their amusementS. If an amuse-
ment sends YOU home at night ner-
vous so YOU can not sleep, and YOU
rise in the morning. not because YOU
are slept out, but because Your duty
I drags You from slumbers. YOU have
been where You ought not TO have
/ been There are amusements that
send man next day TO his work
/ oIoodShot. yawning stupid. nauseated.
and they are wrong kinds of amuse-
mentS. There are entertainments that
/ give man disgust with the drudrerv
/ OF life. with tools because they are not
swords, with working aprons because
/ they are not robes, with cattle because
I they are not Infatuated bulls of the
arena II any amusement sends YOU
/ nome longing for life of romance and
/ thrilling adventure. love that takes
/ poison and shoots itself. moonlight ad-
/ venture and hairbreadth escapes. YOU
may depend upon it that You are the
! sacrificed victim OF uusanctified pleas
I ure Our recreations are intended to
build us up, and if they pull MS down.
as 10 our moral or our physical
strength. YOU may come to the conclu-
sion that they are obnoxious.
Still further: Those umusements
are wrong which lead into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. 1t is
all folly for us 10 come from a place Of
amusement feeling that we have vast
ed our money and time You NAV bv
II have made an investment worth
more than the transaction that Weld
ed YOU 500 or 81 900. Bat how many
properties have been riddled 10y costly
amuscments? The table has been
robbed 20 pay the club. The cham
payne has cheated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing party has
burned mp the boys primer. The table
cloth Of the corner saloon is in debt
20 the wife's faded dress. Excursions
tina; - day make "a tour around a
whole months wages: ladies whose
uieuWe business 10 is 10 go shopping
nave their counterpart i'm uncducated
cni.drcn. bankruptcies that shock tine
money market and appall the church.
ana THAT send drunkenness staggering
across Tie richly figured carpet OF the
mansion and daShing into the mirror.
ana drowning out the carol of music
with the whooping of bloated sons
come home 90 break their old mothers
heart When men go into amusements
mat they can not afford they first bor-
row what they can not earn. and then
thcr teal what they can not borrow.
FIRST they go into embarrassment and
then INTO theft. and when man Gets
as iur ou as tuat Doe does not stop short
of the renitcutiarv There is not "a
prison Iu the land where there are not
victims ot unsanctihcd amusemcat,.
How often ] hav. had rarcnt, come 20
me and ask me 90 ro and beg their boy
off tr.m the consequence of crime.
tuat hc had committed against hi, en-
pioyer the taking OF funds ont OF TN.
employer tin. or The disarraugemcnt
of tive accounts Why. Doe had salary
enough % pas al lawful expenditure.
out not enough salary 20 meet bis sim.
ful amusement. And again and again
have gone and impiorcd for the
young man sometimes. alas! tine nrfi.
ton uuavliliu-
How brightly tie path of uurs.
strained amusement opens, The vouna
man says: Vow ann of fpr % good
tme Never mind economy. TlI get
money somehow. What fine road.
What 20 beautiful day for ride, Crack
fhc wnin ana over t1e turnpike. Come.
boys dl high your glas, Drint
Long life health. plenty ~ -idc4 lust
I.e th.- working mon hear
tue c-at-e of tHe Hoof- and look ua
and -ar -Why wonder ,sner.
those fellows got tucir money from
We have to Toll auI drudge. Tbcv
co nothing. Io tines. gas men life
is % thrill aud au excitement They
stare at other people and iu tu-u arc
stared at The watch Chain fnv.c..
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