Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21


horse racing Of England and America!
go further and speak of another
temptation that hovers over the water
ing place, and that is tie temptation
to sacrifice physical strength. The
modern Bethesda, just like this Bethes
da of the text, was intended to re-
cuperate the physical health, and yet
how many come from the watering
places their health absolutely destroy
ed! City simpletons boasting Of hav-
ing imbibed 20 glasses of Congress wa
ter before breakfast. Families accus-
toned to go to bed at 10 o'clock at
night gossiping until 1 or o'clock in
the morning. Dyspeptics, usually very
cautious about their health, mingling
ice creams and lemons and lobster
salads and cocoanuts until the gastric
juices lift up all their voices of lamen-
tatiOn and protest. Delicate women
and brainless young men dancing
themselves into vertigo and catalepsy.
Thousands Of men and women coming
back from our watering places in the
autumn with the foundations laid for
ailments that will last them all their
life long. You know as we'll as I do
that this is the simple truth. In the
summer you say to your good health:
"Goodby. L am going to have a gay
time now for little while. I will be
very glad to see you again in the au-
tumn.' Tten in the autumn, when
you are hard at work in your Office or
store or shop or counting room, Good
Health will come in and say: "Goodby.
I am going" You say, "Where are you
going?' "Oh," says Good Health, 81
am going to take a vacation!' 1t is
poor rule that will not work both
ways, and your good health will leave
you choleric and splenetic and ex-
hausted. You coquetted with your
good health in the summer time, and
your good health is coauetting with
you in the winter time. A fragment
of PauPs charge to the jailer would
be an appropriate inscription for the
hotel register in every watering place,
'Do myself no harm"
Society Artificial.
Another temptation lowering around
the watering place is the formation of
hasty and lifelong alliances. The wa
tering places are responsible for more
of the domestic infelicities of this
country than nearly all other things
combined. Society is so artificial there
that no sure judgment of character
can be formed. They who form COM
Partnerships amid such circumstances
go into a lottery where there are 20
blanks to one prize. In the severe tug
of life you want more than glitter and
splash. Life is not q ballroom, where
%1n etc
and prance and graceful swing of long
train can make up for strong common
sense. You might as we'll go among
the gayly painted yachts of a summer
regatta to find war vessels as to go
among the light spray of the summer
watering place to find character that
can stand the test of the great strug
gle of human life. In the battle OF
life you want a stronger weapon than
a lace fan or a croquet mallet. The
load of life is so heavy that in order
to draw it you want team stronger
than that made up of a masculine
grasshOpper and a feminine butterfly.
If there is any man in the cOmmuni-
ty who eXcites my contempt and who
ought to excite the contempt of every
man and woman it is the soft handed
soft headed dude, who, perfumed until
the air is actually sick, spends his
summer in striking killing attitudes
and waving sentimental adieux and
talking infinitesimal nothings and find
ing his heaven in the set of a lavender
kid glove. Boots as tight as an inQuisi-
ton. Two hours of consummate skill
exhibited in the tie of Il flashing era
vat. His conversation made up of
''Ahs!' and "Ohsr' and 'He hesr'
There is only one counterpart to such
a man as that, and that is the frothy
young woman at the watering place;
her conversation made up of French
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 IN
less she becomes an intelligent Chris
tan. We may admire music and fair
faces and graceful step, but amid the
hearueSSneSS and the imitation and the
fantastic Influences of our modern wa
tering places beware how you make
lifelong covenants.
BanefuI 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. It is book out of the libra
ry or off the bookstand or bought of
the boy hawking books through the
cars. I 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 I
find sitting on hotel piazza or under
the trees reading books the index of
which would make them hiush If they