The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-28

have for them the fatal spell that the glftering eye of the black snake has for the mother bird sitting upon the edge Of her nest These insects will circle round and round the brilliant light. They will disappear for awhile, as though they know the hot tongue of death is ready to touch them. Then at last they will make one plunge and in an instant the wings and legs are gone Then the poor suffer- ing creatures fall to the ground, wrig- gling and twisting and dying, to be tram pied under the foot of man. Such are aw- ful results which follow when the human insects play about the hssing blasting fires of a summers irritation It may be pleasant for awhile to feel the hot flush upon the cheek. 1t may seem only fun to pass a few hours as a coquette, tear ing and in1aming the tenderest feelings of a true man in a summer rewboat or in romantic walks through the woods. It may seem @ glorious act to boast how many you can conquer in love, as an Indian warrior boasts of his prowess in war by the number of scalps he carries at his belt. But by the scorched and bruised and mutilated hearts of thou sands which have been malformed for time and eternity In the glowing flames of a summer irritation I denounce trifiing with human love. I denounce 1t before the young people who may be participants during their next summer vacation in this merciless, heartless and damning univer- sal evil.
 Peril of the Wine Cup.
 Summer red light the fifth: Beware of the serpent which lies coiled up In the bewitching wine cup. A few summer and winter resorts of this country are espe- cially noted for the power of their miner- al waters to physically straighten a man out after a long debauch. Not many miles from Chicago there is resort where many of our drunkards go at least once year. I have been told by some of these drunkards that it is impossible to drink whisky and at the same time drink of those mineral springs. But though there are few, very few, summer watering places whose waters have those curative qualities, most of our summer watering places are noted for the fact that they make drunkards rath- CT than reform them. They make them in wholesale quantities and not in retail. Men carry their bottles of intoxicating beverages when they go fishing or danc- ing or taking tramp through the woods, and men drink everywhere.
 But this Is not the greatest curse for which our summer resorts are famous. They are noted as places where women get drunk as well as the men. To me the most abjectly repulsive creature on earth Is a drunken woman. When see one l know not which feeling predominates most in my heart, that of pity or of horror. l remember distinctly the first drunken woman I ever saw. It was at summer watering place at Bar Harbor. I saw scores of them there under the in- 1uence of drink. Some of them had dia- monds upon their fingers and jewels at their threats and their clothes were bought at the most expensive establish ments, but they were excited with in- toxicating liquor. You could tell 1t by the flush on the cheek by the strange giassiness of the eye. by the boisterous- ness of the laugh and by the many signs that always mark the effects of drink. In our summer hotels women now drink