Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-25


moonshine; what she has in 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 un-
less she becomes an intelligent Chris
tian. We may admire music and fair
faces and graceful step, but amid the
heartlessness and the imitation and the
fantastic influences of our modern wa
tering places beware how you make
lifelong covenants.
Baneful Literature.
Another temptation that hovers over
the watering place is that Of baneful
literature. Almost every one starting
off for the summer takes some reading
matter. 1t is book out of the libra
ry or off the bookstand or bought of
the boy hawking books through the
cars. | really believe there Is more
pestiferous trash read among the In
telligent 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 a
book that was not really sensible l
find sitting on hotel piazza or under
the trees reading books the index of
which would make them blush If they
knew that you knew what the book
was. oh" they say, you must have
intellectual recreation" Yes. There
is no need that you take along to a
watering place "Hamilton's Metaphys-
les or some ponderous discourse on
the eternal DEGREES or ''Faraday's
Philosophy" There are many easy
books that are good. You might as
tie rest to my digestive organs. and in
stead of eating heavy meat and vege-
tables | will for little while take
lighter food, a little strychnine and
few grains of ratsbane." Literary
poison in August is as bad as literary
poison in December. Mark that. Do
not let the frogs of corrupt printing
press jump into your Saratoga trunk
or White mountain valise. Are there
not good books that are easy to read
books of ent ertaining travel, books of
congenial history, books of pure fun,
books of poetry, ringing with merry
canto: books of fine engravings, books
that will rest the mind as well as puri-
fy the heart aad elevate the whole life?
There will not be an hour between this
and your death when you can afford
to read book lacking in moral prin-
ciple.
Another temptation lowering all
around our watering places is intoxi-
eating beverages. l am told that it is
becoming more and more fashionable
for women to drink. | care not how
well woman may dress, if she has
taken enough of wine to flush her
cheek and put glassiness ON her eye
she is drunk. She may be handed into
a $500 carriage and have diamonds
enough to astound the Tiffanys-she is
drunk. She may be a graduate of the
best young ladies' seminary and the
daughter of some man in danger of
being nominated for the presidency
she is drunk. You may have larger
vocabulary than l have, and you may
say in regard to her that she is "con-
vivial," or she is merry" or she is
festive or she is "exhilarated," but
you cannot with all your garlands OF
verbiage cover up the plain fact that
it is an old fashioned case of drunk.
Dangers of Tipping.
Now, the watering places are full Of
temptations to men and women to tip
pie. At the close of the tenpin or bill
lard game they tipple. At the close Of
the cotillon they tipple. Seated on the
piazza cooling themselves off they tip
pie. The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws and they tipple.
First they take light wines," as they
call them, but Eight wines" are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There
is not very long road between cham
pagne at So bottle and whisky at 10
cents glass. Satan has three or four
grades down which he takes men to
destruction. One man he takes up and
through one spree pitches him into
eternal darkness. This is rare case
Very seldom. indeed, can you find q
man who will be such fool as that.
Satan will take another man to 4
grade, to a descent ut an angle about
like the Pennsylvania coal shoot or the
Mount Washington rail track. and
shove him off. But that is very rare |
When Il man goes down 10 destruction,
Satan brings him to a plane. 1t is al
most level. The depression is so
light that you can hardly see it. The
man does not actually know that he is
on the down grade. ana it tips only a |
little toward darkness-just little. |
And the first mile it is claret, and the |
second mile it is sherry, and the third |
mile it is punch. and the fourth mile |
1t is ale. and the fifth mile it is whis- |
ky, and the sixth mile 1t is brandy, |
and then it gets sleeper and sleeper |
and sleeper until it is impossible to
stop Look not thou upon the wine |
when it is red, when it giveth its color |
in the cup. when it moveth itself |
Alright. At the last it biteth like a SER
pent and stingeth like an adder
The Safe shelter.
Whether you tarry at home-which |
will be quite as safe and perhaps quite
as comfortable-or go into the coun-
try. arm yourself against temptation.
The grace of God is the only safe shell
ter. whether in town or country. There
are watering places accessible to all of