Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-24

tne tie OF u HnSHlHp CTdNdt' Ills CoH-
versation mnde up of abs" and "Ohs"
and ale hes'
There il only one counterpart to such
man as that, and that Is the frothy
young woman at the watering places her
conversation made up of French moon
shine: what she has in her head only
eoualcd by what she has on her back;
useless ever since she was born, and to
be useless until she Is dead unless she
becomes an intelligent Christian. We
may admire music md fair faces and
graceful step: but amid the heartlessncss
and the imitation and the fantastic inhu-
ences of our modern watering places be-
ware how you make lifelong covenants.
Another temptation that hovers over
the watering place is that of baneful lit
ernture. Almost every one starting off
for the summer takes some reading mat
ter 1t is n book out Of the library or off
the bookstand or bought of the boy
hawking books through the cars | really
believe there is more pcstiferous trash
read among the intelligent classes in
July and August than in all the other
ten months of the year. Men and wom-
en- who Mt home would not be satisfied
with book that was not really sensible
! find sitting on hotel piazza or under the
trees reading hooks the index of which
would make them blush If they knew
thas you knew what the book was.
"Oh," they say. "you mus, have intelli-
gent recreati N" Yes. There Is no need
tina. You tak> along to watering place
"IIamiltons Metaphysics" or some pom
derous discourse on the eternal DEGREES
or "Faraday's Philosophy" There are
many eosy books that are good. You
might as well say, II propose now to
give a little rest TO my digestive organs,
and instead OF eating heavy meat and
vegetables / WILL for n little while, take
lighter food-a little strychnine and a
few grains of ratsbane." Literary poi
son in August is as bad as literary poi
son 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
entertaining travel; books of congenial
history; books of pure fun; books OF po-
ctry, ringing with merry canto; books Of
fine engraving; books that will rest the
mind as well rs purify the heart and
elevate the whole life? There will not
be an hour between this and your death
when you can afford to read book lack
ing in moral principle.
Dangers of Intcmperancc.
Another temptation lowering all around
our watering places is intoxicating bcv-
erages | am told that it is becoming
more and more fashionable for women to
drink | care not how well a 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
handea INTO @@,ooo carrlage anu nave
uia,honos enough s 80 "s.oui'' 'ne = -.
-sne Is uruhh' on. n"s pe ua's
o, 'ne peS' young '"''es 'el'''naiy an.
.ne ua"sh.el vi aou'e nan ~ u"ns
oeins noihina'eu ioi 'ne pire'ueS
Is uluiih. iou may liz, " ''.e
mary INN n".e' anu -" '""? ~ ~
regard 10 hei 'no' sue 10 Co ,.,I, ,'"l
sHe iic'i9 "a sne IL ~ IA aI,
Is eNhiIu,attu' out YOU c"lno. WIN az. ~
your sa.i"nuS % o'"S ~, up .,'e
pam lar' 'ha' II is an o'u iasnioneu e"Se
Oh ur"hk.
Now the watering places are lui' oi
temptations 10 men ana women 10 uppIe:
AL the close OIL the tehp'h OF piiharo
game they uppie. AL the close OF the
cotllion they tppie. seated on the pi-
azza cooling themselves on they tlpple'
The tinged glasses come around with
bright straws and they tpple. First
they take light wines" as they call
them, but light wines are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There is
not very long road between champagne
d, % oo'''e anu nlsA' a. ~ 0rn'S 4"
down which no tokes men 70 obstruction.
Ono man no toEes nm and through one
snree nitcbes him INFO etornoI dark
noes THAT is rare cose Very seldom
indeed can Won find n man who will he
such n fool ne that Soton will take
anotbor man 70 a oroda to doscent a r
nm o,g,a about Hke tho pennsvlvonio
co,l shoot ar tho Mount WASHINGTON rail
trocL ord sbovo him of Rnt The ia
very rare. When Il man goes down to
destruction, satan brings him to plane.
1t is almost 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 darkness-just little. And the
first mile it is claret and the second mile
it is sherry and the third mile it IL punch
aand the fourth mile II 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 impossi-
BILE to stop. Look not thou upon the
wine when it is red when it givcth its
color in the cup, when it moveth itself
Alright. At the last it biteth like SER
pent and stingeth like an adder.
Tho only Safe SbeJt.r