Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-25


me the sights of the town. He painted
the path of sin until it looked Ike emer
aid, but | was afraid of him. | showed
BACK from the baSlisk-I made up my
mind he was a basilisk. / remember how
lie wheeled his chair round in front of
me and, with a concentered and dia-
ooIlcal effort, attempted to destroy my
soul, but there were good angels in the
air that night. II was no good resolu-
ton on my part. but it was the all en-
comprising grace of good God that de-
hvered me. Beware, beware, o young
man! There is way that seemeth
right unto man, but the end thereof is
death"
The table has been robbed to pay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
chiidren's wardrobe. The carousiny
party has burned up the boys primer.
The tablecloth of the coIrer saloon is in
debt to the wife's faded dress. Excur-
Sions that in a day make tour around
a whole months wages. ladies whose
htetlme business it is to go shopping
large bets on horses. have their counter
parts IN uneducated children. bankrupt
cles that shock the money market and
appalt the church and that send drunken
ness staggering across the richly figured
carpet of the mansion and dashing into
the mirror ana drowning out the carol of
music with the whooping of bloated sons
come home to break their old mothers
heart
saw beautiful home. where the bell
rang violently late at night. The son had
been off in sinful indulgences. His COM
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carried him to the door. They rang the
heii at / o'clock in the morning Father
and mother came down. They were wait
ing for the wandering son. and then the
comrades as soon as the door was opened
threw the prodigal headlong into the
doorway. crying. There he is. drunk as
fool. Ha. haI' When men so into
amusements that they cannot afford, they
hrst borrow what they cannot earn. and
then they steal what they cannot borrow.
FIRST they go into embarrassment and
then into lying and then into theft, and
when man gets as far on as that he
does not stop short of the penitentiary.
There is not a prison in the land where
there are not victims of unsanctified
Look Ont for the Leakage.
Merchant, is there disarrangemcnt
in your accounts? Is there leakage in
your money drawer? Did not the cash
account come out right last night? l
will tell you. There is a young man in
your store wandering off into bad amuse-
ments. The salary you give him may
meet lawful expenditures, but not the
sinful indulgences in which he has enter
f,I ha tal. l. ~ 4. 2
do not give him in lawful salary.
How brightly the path Of unrestrained
amusement opens! The young man says:
Now | am off for a good time. Never
mind economy. I'll get money somehow.
What a fine road! What beautiful day
for ridel Crack the whip. and over the
turnpike! Come. boys. fill high your
glasses. Drink! Long life, health, plen-
ty Of rides just like thisr' Hardwork-
ing men hear the catter Of the hoofs and
look up and say: why, / wonder where
those fellows get their money from. We
have to toll and drudge They do moth
ing To these gay men life is thrill
and excitement. They stare at other peo-
pie and in turn are stared at. The watch
chain jingles. The cup foams. The
cheeks flush. The eyes fash. The mid
night hears their guffaw They swagger
Iney jostle decent men off the sidewalk
They take the name of God In vain.
They parody the hymn they learned at
their mothers knee. and To az pictures
Of coming disaster they cry out. who |
cares. and to the counsel Of some Chris |
ton friend, who are yout"
! 90 further and say those are I'M /
Christian amusements which become the /
chief business Of mans life Life is an t
earnest thing. Whether we are born in |
A palace or howell. whether VIC are aiiluent |
Or pinchcd, we have to work. If you do
not sweat with toll, you will sweat with |
disease. You have a soul that is to be
ransfgured amid the pOmp Of a iudg-
nent day. and after the sea has sung it's
asst chant and the mountain shall have
'ome down in an avalanche Of rock you
will live and think ana act. high on n
hrone where seraphs sing or deep in a
lunGcon where demons howl. In a world
where there is SO much to do for your
selves and so much TO do for others God
lity that man who has nothing to do.
Sports Means to an End.
Nonr sports are merely means 10 an
nd. They are aleviations and helps.
rhe arm OF toll IL the only arm strong
nough to bring up the bucket out of the
ieep well OF pleasure. Amusement is
My the bower where business and phi
rest while on their way to stir
ing achievements. Amuscments are
merely the vines that grow about the an
ii of toll and the bl0ssoming of the
hammers. Alas for the man who spends
lis life in laboriously doing nothing his
lays in hunting up lounging places and
oungers, his nights in seeking out some
aslighted foolery! The man who always
as on his sporting jacket, ready 20 hunt
or game in the mountain or FISH in the
rock, with no time to pray or work or
cad, is not so well off as the greyhound
hat runs by his side or the fly bait with
ihich he whips the stream. man who
oes not work does not know how to
lay. II God had intended ms to do moth
~ but laugh he would not have given
$ shoulders with which to lift and hands
nth which TO work and brains with
hitch to think. The annsements Of life
re merely the orchestra playing while
he great tragedy Of life Dlttupps throuyb