Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-07-11
WHOLE NO. 1891
summering at Home.

We can not well understand why going
abroad, even in hot weather, should be
called summering. If the troops of ref
ugees from the cities are right, they are
| escaping the summer, and leaving the
rest of US to endure it. Yes, it is those
who stay at home that have the true sum
merin,, both in the good sense and the
bad, and we should be happy to see the
world adopt our opinion, at least for a
single season. To be sure, it would spoil
the business of the hotel keepers, and
damage the fortunes of the owners of
mineral springs, bathing places, and rail-
way and steamboat companies, and save a
great deal of brandy and kindred bever-
ages. But who would be sorry for that?
Indeed, we owe the whole race of hotel
employees, and their hackers, a serious
grudge, both personally and on behalf OF
the general travelling public. Who has
not suffered at their hands, With what
airs of sovereign authority do they receive
the weary and dusty and perspiring trsy-
eler 1T the desk! 1t Is fact, that no
| travelled person will dispute, that the
hotel man gives you your room as II 1t
were charity for which you ought TO be
/ profoundly and reVerentially thankful
| Why publican, of all others, should wear
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takes unconscious advantage Of your be-
/ ing a stranger, outof house and home, and
gives credit to himself for taking you in;
or it may be that he judges your quality
by your outward condition, by your rum
pied rainent and unshaVen face, or
possibly, his impudent and consequential
habits. NAV be the result of his so often
being umpire between parties struggling
for the best apartments, or even any at
all. Such petitioners often assume an air
of plaintiYe dependence, a look OF a6jeet
humiliation, that invites kick, and it Is
no wonder that they get it. 1t IS, per-
haps, natural that such an umpire should
grow into a lordling.
These charges also hold substantially
against railway clerks and steamboat Off
GERS. What supreme contempt does the
face Of the man at the ticket window ex-
press for the waiting crowd before himl
Who has not dreaded to ask word OF ex-
PLANTATION, or timidly hesitated to count
over his change in that magnificent pres
encel How often have we heard the most
delicate advance repelled by an oath!
And there, too, is the steamboat captain.
In what stately reticence he dWells
apart! 1t has fallen to the lot OF compar-
atively few passengers to set eyes upon q
steamboat captain, and still fewer nave
been known to make his august acqualnt-
ance. Now, what injured traveller would
not be glad to see these great dlgnltarles
humbled? What a sweet revenge, IN a
small way, it would afford to see the great
hotel magnate at some notable watering
place, waiting for the often-snubbed traV-
eller, and waiting all in vainl How gay
to the eye of revenge would be the agony
of that countenance, how sweet the erick-
cts song, and the mouse's romp in the 81
lent hallsI And how refreshing it would
be see the steamboat and railway authorl-
ties brought down to obsequious attitudes.
For the present season it may be too
late to bring about this most desirable re-
suit, but we can prove to an impartial
audience that staying at home In not
weather has very decided advantages,
And first, car riding, besides being tedi-
GUS and dangerous, is very laborlous, not
and dusty. If one gets on the sunny SIDE
it is roasting. Indeed the condition OF a
railway traveller in summer weather Is
most pitiable In a crowded car, Where
dust and smoke and sparks come INTO the
windows together, while the rapid motion
threatens. with the aid of perspratlon, to
churn him into Jelly, what chance mas
he to see the beauties of natureg What
are the hues of nature, of sky and mount
ain and river and fields, as seen through
blending sweat and sweltering heatf And
how different is the lot of the man or
woman who STAYS at homel How delicious
is the freedom from such ills!
In staying at home too, we are saved
from the rudeness of hotel clerks and rail-
road clerks and steamboat hunkies. At
watering places there is a perpetual tenn
tation to overeat. We believe that the
wisdom of physicians in the present age
is settled in the fact that vastly many
more people die of eating than ofdrinking.
1t is the eating, especially Of Injuries that
brings on dyspepsia, that opener of Pando-
ra's box, and many a man ofsimple habits
at home falls prey to the splendid ta-
bIes of Saratoga. He leaves home only
little iaded, and comes back with stom-
ach completely upset. How could he help
it. He was near the great spring; every
body drank the water, whether they need
ed If or not, and he must follow the fash
ion. The result is, that his appetite over
leans all measure, and the variety being
great. and the charge for board being
enormous, he yields and overeats. He
feels he ought to get something like the
worth of his money, and his appetite
backs the Just decision. How happy are
we. sta wing at home, remaining masters
of the situation, and "eating only to live"
Remember too. that any one of these
poor railway and steamboat-roasted, clerk
abused, overeating tourists, may fall sick
while away. 1t is an ugly thing to be
sick outside of ones own family, to be
tended by mercenary nurses, and physic-
ed bv d. strange doctor. To avoid these
dangers there is nothing like staying at
home. Oh, home, sweet, sweet home!
What is Saratoga, Cape May, or Long
Branch, or Newport, to home! What are
sea views or mountain scenes to home!
At home we have the whole house open
to us, instead of being shut up within
single ten-by twelve apartment. At home
YOU are not compelled to drink waters at
which the simple uncultured stomach re-
volts We have come to the conclusion
to stay at home, and ask the reader
whether we have not given good reasons
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