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^	the	unfortunate	class who have no fixed principles of conduct
will be drawn into imprudences alike detrimental to their health and
n-joppLl s. After having partaken too heartily of a plain or a~ sumptuous dinner, gentlemen often think it expedient, in order to counteract the baneful comsequences of indigestion, to drink freely of brandy and wgj^r during Yhe ~af teTnoorf, ‘till at last they sTnk into the arms of Korpheus in the unconscious state of inebriation.
Or, it may be, they pass all the day and a great part of the night at the card table. Nature sinks under what are called diversions protracted beyoncT“all reasonable limits. Of course these votaries of pleasure, to sustain themselves, must have recourse to copious potations of wine or ardent spirits.
Loss of SI eet>
Young men engaged in me.Jxan.LHa~ pursuits through the week, on a Saturday afternoon go on board a steamer which enables them to pass the Sabbath inhaling the balmy breezes along the Gulf shore.
But the loss of two nightal-X.est. and inordinate unrestricted pleasures through ..the csa^red_day, diminish insteacPo? augmenting” tfteir^physical energies',10aricT"they enter upon the business of Monday ■with a stock of firmness and vigor, less than that with which they concluded the labors of the preceding week.
Ey a striking misnomer these jaunts are styled excursions for health and pleasure. But we have no time for more extended particulars. We can only say that the efforts of multitudes at our watering places to improve their physical condition, are rendered unavailing by various forms of intemperance.
Criticisms
Some visitors at the hotel where we have been were loud in their complaints about the table. They alleged that it was poorly and meanly furnished.
It was not, we admit, sufficiently luxurious to satisfy the demands of an epicure, but it"-«as daily spread with kinds and quantities of food adapted to answer all the calls of a sound and an incorrupted taste.
Use of Time
Not a few at the summer resorts above mentioned suffer considerably from the want of suitable and sufficient engagements.
We can hardly imagine a situation more tiresome thanthat of a man who has been accustomed to a busy, active life, confined to the narrow purlieus of an hotel or a boarding house along the Gulf shore, with no suitable occupytions to,fi.lX,and interest his mind.
An adequate variety and a constant succession of engagements are the chief sources of human happiness. He who has something to do eve ry passing moment and hour, can easily triumph over the heat, lassitude and oppression of the warmest weather.