The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-16
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PUT ON THE cHEcKREIN.
How Many 8 Young Man Rushes on
70 HE Ruin.

We are living in a fast age and q
fast country. There is need Of the
brakes as we'll as Of the engine; there
are too many young men who under.
stand the whip better than the check
rein. When the upset comes, It is
found that the head is softer than the
pavement and perhaps the idea is
beaten into that soft head that pru-
dence demanded slower driving.
On a Sabbath afternoon It is quite
too common to meet group Of show
ily-dressed young men whose cigars
AID noisy talk show the rate at which
they are travelling. While wiser
young men are at their Bible class
writes Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D.,
in Christian Work, these youths are
out on a dress parade, exhibiting their
fast manners and habits to the public
One Of the group has chosen the club
house for his Sunday resort, and an
other tries his good mothers heart
sorely by coming home at midnight
from the theater and a wine supper
after 1t. Before long there will be va
cant situations in the business houses
where these fast fellows are employed.
Prudent merchants do not care to
keep in their counting.rooms the
clerks who wear too much jewelry
and are seen too often at the counter
Of the fashionable saloons There Is
an upset ahead for these young Jehus
II they don't put on a checkrein.
Poor Harry Rapids young wife
called in to inquire If I could recon-
mend very cheap boarding house,
and knew OF any place where her hus
band could find employment. Her face
was as faded as her dress. It would
have been well If Harry and his bro
ken.down young wife had looked fol
plain frugal quarters when they began
their matrimonial career, But they
set up in ambitious style in fine
"fat," with sealskin sacquea and 9
box at the opera and fast horse fol
the drive to the beach. Now they
have been sold out and are glad t
hide away in such humble quarters al
they can get. | trust that the sharI
lesson will not be lost on them. This
capsize Of their showy turnout ma.
teach them that when Satan has a sea
ION the box" 1t is a short road to ruin
Extravaganza is one Of the devili
bats in these days It does not onl!
break up homes; it breaks hearts
Both sound sense and moral courag'
are required by young people to con
form to their circumstances and liyi
within their means. The next thin
is to know how to use money as
scored trust and not to spend It Il
gratifying the lust Of the eye, the lus
OF the flesh, and the pride Of life.
In the same counting room wit
Harry Rapid a while ago was youn
George surepace. He was considere
by his companions as decided
SLOW Some OF his fellow clerk
made sport Of his plain tweed Goa
and his Puritanical ways; they neve
could induce George to join one c
their clubs. or to go with them I
Brighton beach on Sunday, or to tax
game Of poker" over a glass q
wine. He married an industrious gir
who instead Of studying Partisan fasl
ion plates studied how to make bot
ends meet and how to make their COZ
house look tidy when husband cam
home. Mary Surepace will soon b
bringing her two rosy childien to tn
infant department Of the sunda
school, and George Is already the Leaf
ing man in the Society Of Christia
Endeavor. The other day he gave
spare ten dollars to his old fellow
clerk, Harry Rapid, IN order to al
him In getting his watch out {
pawn. I have watched these tw
young couples; it was the old race b.
tween the fast hare and the joggin
tortoise the hare has run himse
out Of breath and out Of character
the slow and careful tortoise has wo
the race.