Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-18

hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from
the mountain side all a-bloom with wild
flowers and a-dash with the nimble tor.
rents, and with blistered feet attempt
TO climb the hot sides of Cotopaxi?
Now all opera houses, theatcrs, bowl
Ing alleys, skating Kinks and all styles
OF amusement, good and bad put on
trial today and judge of them by GER
tain cardinal principles. First, YOU
may judge Of any amusement by IT'S
healthfu1 result or by It's baneful reac-
ton. There arc people who seem mado
up of hard facts. They are combina.
ton of multiplication tables and Stats.
tics. If you show them an exquisite pic
ture, they will begin to discuss the pig
ments involved in the coloring; if you
show them beautiful rose, they will
submit 1t to botanical analysis, which
IS only the post mortem examination of
a flower. They never do anything more
than feebly smile. There are no great
tides Of feeling surging up from the
depth OF their soul in billow after bill
low of reverberating laughter. They
seem as If nature had built them by
contract and made bungling Job out
of 1t. But, blessed be God, there arc
people in the world who have bright
faces and whose life is a song, an an.
them, paan Of victory. Even their
troubles are like the vines that crawl
up the side of great tower on the
top of which the sunlight 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 to my
house. Now 1t is these exhilarant and
sympathetic and warm hearted people
that are most tempted to pornicious
amHsements. In proportion as ship is
swift it wants strong helmsman; In
proportion as a horse is gay 1t wants %
strong driver, and these people Of cx-
uberant nature will do we'll to look at
the reaction of all their amusements. If
an amusement sends you homo at night
nervous so you cannot sleep, and you
rise in the morning, not because you
are slept out, but because your duty
dra8s you from your slumbers, you
have been where you ought not to have
been. There are amusements that send
a man next day to his work bloodshot,
yawning, stupid, nauseated and they
are wrong kinds of amuscments. There
are entertainments that give man dis
gust with the drudgery of life, with
tools because they arc not swords, with
working aprons because they are not
robes, with cattle because they are not
Infatuated bulls of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing for
a life of romance and thrilling adven-
ture, love that takes poison and shoots
itself, moonlight adventures and hair
breadth escapes, you may depend upon
1t that you are the sacrificed victim of
7u4sss,,, =; Se1 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 como
to the conclusion that they are obnoy-
ious.
Still further, those amrqsSs1AA,s are
wrong which lead into expenditure be-
yond your means. Moncyspent in recre-
alton is not thrown away. 1t is all folly
for us to come from place of amuse-
ment 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 500
or s. 900. But how many properties
he, 8 beef riddled by costly amuse-
ments? The table has been robbed to
pay the club. The champagne has
cheated the children wardrobe. Tho
carousing party has burned up tho boy $
primer. The tablcoloth of the corner
saloon is in debt to tho wifc's faded
Gress-excursions that In day make a
TOUR around whole months wages :;
ladies whose lifetime business it is to
Ego shopping" have their counterpart
In uneducated children, bankruptcies
that shock the money market and arpall
the church and that send drunkenness
staggering across the richly figured car
pet of the mansion and dashing into the
mirror and drowning out tho carol of
music with the whooping of bloatod
sons come home to break their old
mothers heart When men go into
amusements that they cannot afford,
they first borrow what they cannot
earn, and then they steal what they
cannot borrow. First thoy go into en-
barrassment and then into theft, and
when a man gets as far on as that he
does not stop short of the ponitcntiary
There is not prison in the land where
~. Of n1
smusements. How often l have had
parents come to mo and ask Inc to &c
and beg their boy off from the consc-
quence of crimes that he had committed
against his employer-the taking Of
funds out of the employers till or the
disarrangement of the accounts. Why,
he had salary enough to pay all lawful
expenditure, but not enough salary to
meet his sinful amusements. And again
and again have gone and imploro'l for
the young man-sometlmes, alas, tho
petition unavailing!
How brightly the path of unrestrain-
amusement opens! The young man
says: Nov l am off for good time.
Never mind economy. III get money
somehow. What a fine road! What a
beautiful day for a ridol Crack tho
whip, and over the turnpile Come,
boys fill high your glasses! Drink!
Long life, health, plenty of rides Just
like this!" handwriting men hear the
clatter of the hoofs and look ND and say:
"Why,- I wonder where those fellows
GET their money from. We have to toll
and drudge They do nothing" To
these gay men life is a thrill and an OK
element. They stare at other people
and in turn are stared at. The watch