Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-08

In proportion as . horse Is gay ~ wants
a stout driver. and these people Of
exuberant nature will do well to look
nc the reaction of all their smuse-
ments III an amusement sends
you home at night nervous. 80
that you cannot sleep. and you
rise up in the morning not because you
are slept out. bat because your duty
drags you from your siumbers. you
have been where you ought not ~ have
been. There are amusements that
send a man next day to his work with
his eyes bloodshot. yswning. stupid.
nauseated. and they are wrong kinds
OF amusement. They are entertain
ments that give a man disgust with the
drsdgery of life. with tools because
they are not swords, with working
aprons because they are not robes.
with cattle because they are not in
f,sriated bulls OF the arena. IL any
amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling ad
venture. love that takes poison and
shoots itself. moonlight adventures
and hsir-breadth escapes. you may de-
pend upon IL that you are the sacri-
feed victim Of unsanctifed pleasure.
Our recreations are intended TO build
Us up. and IL they pull US down as 60
our moral OF a. 60 our physical
strength you may come TO the con-
clusiOn that they are obnoxious.
Still further, these smussments are
wrong which lead you into expendi-
lures beyond your means. Money
| spent in recreation Is not thrown
away. IL Is all folly for us 10 come
from q place OF amusement feeling
that we have wasted our money and
time. You may by il have made ar
! investment worth more than the
transaction that yielded you hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. But
how many properties have been rid
died by costly amusements.
The first time I ever saw the city
II was the city Of PHILADELPHIA was
a mere lad. stopped at a hotel, and
/ remember in the eventide one OF
these men piled me with his internal
art He saw ! was green. He wanted
70 show me the sights of the town
He painted the path of sin until II
looked like emerald, but I was afraid
of him / showed back from the has
siiisk-I made up my mind he WAS q
basilisk. ! remember how he wheeled
his chair round in front Of me. and
with a concentered and diabolical ef
fort. attempted TO destroy my soul
but there were good angels IN the all
that night. IL was no good resolution
on my part. but IL was the all en-
comprising grace % a good God tina
delivered me. Beware. beware.
young mani There Is way tina
seemeth right unto a man, but tn,
end thereof is death"
The table has been robbed 10 pa,
the club. The champagne has cheat
ed the children's wardrobe. The ca
rousinR party rs burned up tn
boys primer. The tablecloth Of III
corner saloon Is I'm debt 20 the wife
faded dress. Excursions tina. in
day make n tour around who'll
months wages. ladies. whose lifetim
business IL is 20 go shopping, "lorg
bets on horses, have their counter
parts in uneducated children. hank
ruptcies that shock the money mar
ket and appalI the church and tina
send drunkenness staggering acros
the richly figured carpet of the mar
sion and daShing into the mirror an
drowning out the carol Of music wit
the whooping Of blOated sons com
home 10 break their old mother
heart.
saw a beautiful home where tn
bell rang violently late at night, Tn
son had been of In sinful indu
! | gences. His comrades were bringin
/ him home. They carried him TO IA
/ | door. They rang the bell At on
| o'clock in the morning. Father an
, mother came down They were wal
I ing for the wandering son. and the
I the comrades as soon as the doc
/ was opened threw the prOdigal heaS
long into the doorway. cryinf
r There he is as drunk as a fooil ii
( hal" When men 90 into amusement
8 that they cannot afford. they FRI
= borrow what they cannot earn, an
4 then they steal what they came
p borrow. First they go into embarras
2 ment and then into lying and the
I into theft, and when e man gets I
I far as that he does not stop short
$ the penitentiary. There is not pri
o on in the land where there are M
Il victims of unsanctified amusements
Merchant. Is there n disarrang
ment In your accounts? Is there
: leakage in your money drawer ID
= not the cash account come out rigl
:. last night? Will tell you. There is
u young man In your store wandering c
4 into bad amusements. The salal
i you give him may meet lawful expen
e itures, but not the sinful inculgsnc
q In which he has entered, aud he TAX
Il by theft that which you do not 81
4 him In lawful salary.