The Iola register., 1899-08-25

tpmnt of every man and woman in
is the soft-banded. soft-beaded dude.
who nerfumed until tbe air is actual
lv sick snends tbe summer in striking
killing attitudes. and waving senti-
and talking infnitesimal
notbings. alnd finding his heaven in
the set of n lavender kid glove. Boots
as tipht as an inouisition. Two hours
of consummate skin exhibited in the
tie of a flashing cravat. His eonversa-
ton made up of "Ahsl" and "Ohsl"
and ole hesl"
There is only one counterpart TO such
a man as that, and that is the frothy
Young woman at the watering places;
her conversation made up of French
moonshine; what she has in her head
only euualed bv 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
heartlcssuess and the initiation and the
fantastic influences of our modern wa
tering places beware how you make
lifelong covenants.
Another temptation lowering all
around our watering places is intoXi-
eating beverages. | 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
check and put a glaseiness on her eye,
she is drunk She may be handed into
a $500 carriage and have diamonds
enough to astouud the Tiifauys-- 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 a larger
vocabulary than | have, and you may
say i'm regard to her that she is con
yivial" or she is merry" or she is "fes-
tive" or she is "eNhilarated," but you
cannot with all your garlands of yer-
biage cover up the plain fact that it
is an old-fashioned case of drunk.
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 cotllion they tipple. Seated on
the piazza cooling themselves off they
tipple. The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws and they tipple.
First they take light Wines" as they
| call them, but Eight vines are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There
| is not a very long road between cham
pagne at five dollars a bottle and whis-
| ky at ten cents a 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. That is a rare
case. Very seldom indeed can you find
a man who will be such Il fool as that.
| Satan will take another man to a grade,
to descent at an angle about like the
! Pennsylvania coal shoot or the Mount
! Washington rail track, and shove him
off. But this is very rare. When a
man goes down to destruction, Satan
| brings him to plane. 1t is almost a
level. The depression is so slight that
YOU can hardly see it. The man does
not actually know that he is on the
down grade, and it tips only little
toward darlness-just a little. And the
first mile it is claret and the second mile
| IL is sherrN ana lhe hlru lulle IL ID
punch and the fourth mile it is ale
and the fifth mile it is whisky and the
sixth mile it 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 1t
giveth its color in the cup when 1t
moveth itself Alright. AT the Last 1t
biteth like serpent and stlngeth like
an adder.
Whether you tarry at home-whch
will be quite as safe and perhaps quite
as comfortable-or go into the country
arm yourself against temptation. The
grace OF God is the only sate shelter,
whether in town or country. There are
watering places accessible to all OF us
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