Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — A Great Evil. [ARTICLE]

A Great Evil.

Thj foe of American social life ia in American cities fihd Urge towns. They do not realize'how this dread tot mania for expensive pleasures,, and a life of alternate idleness and amusement, ia destroying their health, abolishing true marriage, P feud ing the flamearaf gross sensuality and’ intemperance among young mcu.aad saddening the hopes of our hast pareata in toe land. Some of it in this world. Thousands of good hearted young girls are;sacrificed every year when e little wise and loving guid. knee oouM save - them. But we sees that they should be told .unless they change this they will pass 4ke the flowers of June; and a more hardy and resolute class wi]L oocupy their places. American < BocfeVy Mill shed every class of tafflers, male or. female, that does not do in work, ns the rests shed their leaven. Let them awakeream their dream of social indulgences; learn to live out of door*: te TniiM Hi their lWwt ' A tastes in dress, and more moderation in pleasure; study doqreatjcMcmQaiZ; study domestic skill'Wnd tact; fit themseivtV for the noblest pottttnnwwrer yet 1 offered* to their sex, and learn that woman is toe soul of American life, not the tinsel of its garment. %&• J* f The borps of skaters, a force" peculiar to the Norwegire armjj has been lately reorganised, and consists-of five companies each of 110 men, which in Time of war pan be reinforced by calling in 270 skaters belonging to the Landwehr. The men of this corps ate armed with rifieat and C&q be maneuvered upon ice fir Obfir the snofr fields of the mountains with a rapidity equal to that of the bast trained cavalry; The skates they use are admih ablv adapted for traveling orer rough and tod broken ice or frozen shmv, being six inches broad and! between tone and ten inches long. In ascending steep slopes the men take a zig-sag course, treking up toe mountain side as a ship does against a head-wind. As an instance of the speed at Which they can go, it ia mentioned that last winter a messenger dispatched from Roersas at 8 o’clock in the morning arrived at Drontheim at 9:30 in toe evening of the same day, having consequently accomplished 190 miles m about eighteen and one-half hoars, it 'mate be added,' however, that Roeraas lies some 2,000 feethigher than Drontheim, sew thto. the course of the skater Was dewn hill the whole way. On the teftftfl'Jdurniy toe same man took fifty-four hoars to reach Roeraas from Dtojuimim, hut toe route be took led him over glHuid brbken ’i "r 10 *-