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

/ mounted, all the time gaining on him.
/ Spectator breathless. They put on
| the lash. dig in the spurs. Therei They
are past the stand. Sure. Just as
| expected it. The black horse of ruin
| darkness ''luzza, huzzar and the
devils come in to pick up their wagers.
All, my friends. have nothing to do
with horse racing designations this
| summer.
4 Timely Warming.
Long ago the English government
got through looking to the turf for the
dragon and the light cavalry horse.
They found out that the turf depre-
ciatcs the stock, and it is worse yet
for men. Thomas Hughes, the men,
ber of parliament and the author
known all the world over. hearing that
a new turf enterprise was Icing start
ed in this country, wrote a letter in
which he said, Heaven help you, then,
for of all the cankers of our old civ
ilization there Is nothing in this coun-
try approaching in unblushing mean
ness, in rascality holding its head high,
TO this belauied institution of the
British turf" Another famous sports
man writes. How many fine domains
have been shared among these hosts
of raDacious sharks during the last
200 years, and, unless the system be
altered. how many more are doomed
to fall into the same gulf?" With the
bullfghts OF Spain and the bear bait
ings of the pit may the Lord God an
nihilate the infamous and accursed
horse racing of England and America.
l go further and speak OF another
temptation that hOvers over the water
ing place, and that is the 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 hoasting of hay
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 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-
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 well as l do
that this is the simple truth. In the
summer you say to your good health:
"Goodby. | am going to have gay
time now for q little while. | will be
very glad to see you again in the au-
tumn." Then 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.
l am going" You say, Where are you
going?" "Oh," says Good Health, 81
am going to take 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 coquetting with
you in the winter time. A fragment
Of Paufs charge to the jailer would
be an appropriate inscription for the
hotel register in every watering place.
"Do thyself 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
so into n 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 ballroom, where
the music decides the step and bow
and prance and graceful swing of long
train can make up for strong common
sense. You might as well go among
the gayly painted yachts of 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 stronger weapon than
lace fan or Il croquet mallet The
lead Of life is 80 heavy that in order
TO draw it you want team stronger
than that made up of masculine
grasshoppar 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 flashing era
vat. His conversation made up of |
"Ahs." and ''Ohsp' and HE hesy'
There is only one counterpart to such |
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