GOOD TIMES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2781, 10 May 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

GOOD TIMES.

My son enjoy yourself, Have a good

time ; plaasure is eminently right and proper. But a good time isn't secured by a headache that lasts all the next day. The simplest pleasures are the most lasting. After you has'e spent two years in Europe, you come back and sit down by your own fireside and think of a picnic you went to down at the Cascade one afternoon in June, that cost you just 65 cents. The "good times" that you dare not take your wife to, my sou, that you would lie about rather than have your sister know of them, the " goodness" of them never comes baok to refresh you aud gladden yeur heart, as does the memory of the 65 cent picnic, when you chatted nonsense with the girl you loved, and laughed just 'cause the leaves rustled, because you couldn't

help it. The '' good time " that Avakes in the morning and wonders where it was and who saw it, and where all its money is gone ; the " good time that tails itself off with a headache, there' 3 preoious

little fun in that. And it only takes a very little business of that kind to poison and cloud the memories of your past. It does not take many such " good times ' my son, to mingle tears with your bread and gall with your drink. The sting is the smallest part of the bee but when you pick him up by it, though the rest of the bee were as large as an omnibus horse yet would the sting out-weigh all tho good sweet, harmless, honey-laden portion of the bee, and you would think about it oftener and longer.—" Burdette," in Honolulu Friend,