Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-22

these curative qualities, most of our
summer watering places are noted for
the fact that they make drunkards
rather 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 dancing or taking tramp
in the woods, and men drink every
where.
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 drunken woman. When |
see one know not which feeling pre-
dominates most in my heart, that OF
pity or Of horror. | remember dis
tinctly the first drunken woman 1 ever
saw. 1t was at summer watering
place near Bar Harbor. l saw scores
of them there under the influence of
drink. Some of them had diamonds
upon their fingers and jewels at their
threats and their clothes were bought
at the most expensive establishments,
but they were excited with intoxicat-
ing liquor. You could tell it by the
flush on the cheek, by the strange
glassiness 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 everywhere Therefore.
friends, beg of you when you are in
a summer party where wine is passed
around do not touch IL For your
Christian examples sake do not touch
it. For the danger of indaming your
own evil tastes do not touch 1t. Stand
back from the evil wine cup though it
may be offered to you by the jeweled
hand of hostess or by the companion
who pretends he is your frieald. The
tempter may not be able to enslave
you In city where you are in active
work, but he may be able to dig for
you a drunkard's grave among the
many sinful summer destinations of
hotel piazza.
Family Separations.
Summer red light the last: Baware
of the family separations which take
away for any length of time wives
from husbands, husbands from wives,
brothers from sisters and parents from
children. Where do you say you are
going this summer? Well" you an
swer, 81 do not know l have not yet
made up my mind / would like to 60
down to the seashore if / could, but
that is so far away. My husband and
boys could be with me only a little
while If l did go there" Mother, wife, l
would not go far away from home If ]
were you. If your husband and boys
and brothers have to work during the
summer to earn you livelihood it is
not good to be separated from them.
It is not good for you. 1t, is not good
for the husband and the boys. Mark
this, my friends, and what I say. /
speak calmly and deliberately: Nine
tenths Of all the evil temptations of
our summer resorts are directly or in
directly due to the separations of fam.
lilies. These separations lay tempta-
tons. awful temptations, at tie feet OF
the men who are compelled to stay at
home and work. They lay temptations
awful temptations, at the feet of the
women who are off in the summer no.
tells. Go to a summer resort near tC
your home. Be in a place where all
the members of the family can get to-
gether every few days. Never let youl
husband learn the lesson how to be
happy without you and the children
Wives and mothers, never learn your
selves the lesson how you can be hap
py without your husbands and the
children by your side AS far as you
may be able, during the years Of your
earthly life. never be separated from
your loved ones for any length of time
until you are compelled to lay them
away for the last sleep in new made
| grave.
In closing l would speak to you
words of congratulation and good
| cheer. Before we separate for the
| summer months | would say. men and
women. congra tulate you because you
have well earIed your rest. con-
| graduate you because you have fin
| ished hard winters work l congratu-
| late you that you are going out among
| the trees and the flowers and the noun
tains and the valleys; that you are
| going to drink out of the cool spring
and see the cows gather for the even
| ing milking. And l also congratulate
| you that the same Christ whom you
worship here you can worship there.
] Take along the Saviour's companion
ship. Pray during the next few weeks
for divine protection and help. Then,
if you have Christ along. there will be
no fear that you will succumb to the
evil temptations which beset every one
| during summer vacation.
copyright 1903 by Louis Klopsch.1
| Making the bible Desirable.
The celebration Of the bicentennial
next October of Jonathan Edwards