Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-09-14
THE SUMNER is OVER AND GONE.


While this is scarcely true of Nevada it is
true of most of the States East of the Rocky
Mountains. The trunks which have numbered
the hotels and cottages of Saratoga, Newport,
Long Branch, Manhattan, Cape May, and
the thousand other resorts, from the White
Mountains to the Chesapeake ehave been
mostly packed; the servants who have revelled
in perauisites, dismissed; the moonlight fir
tations and expensive drives, are ever fer an
other nine months, and broken hearts and a
great many other fractured things, strew the
haunts of the abandoned spots or pine in
dull homes, where the ennui-the relaxation
the universal wilt which follows the
tension of a season at the seashore or the
mountains, has stopped the whole current of
homo habits and healthy thought. The
student is yawning over his tasks; the
mother languishes over her novel, the young
girl, who is too young for such strain, cannot
bring her mind to the daily task of music,
French and other studies of equal Importance.
She is dreaming of the May waltz under the
blazing chandeliers of heated room the
quiet firtations between dances the
iced sherbet and claret punches, and
consequent exhllerstion of those soft
summer nights and of the pretty budding
mustachs and silky locks Unnecessary of Charles
Augustus: and her tasks become distasteful
and horrid. The Sundays, which used to be
looked forward to as a time for display Of new
dresses-snd solemn worship-she votes
bore, and becomes peevlsh and cross. All the
beauties of the season are remembered except
the horrd dinners over which they used to
growl, and worry bewildered walters; the hor-
rid rooms, with paillastrss instead of the soft
couch of home; cast iron soap and thrice
used towels; these are all forgotten in the e,t-
mai, and the longings for the designations of
the season ended. And this is the fashionable
sumner; and all the while worried father or
husband frets his weary hours in his counting
room, in his frequent visits to town, and it
costs him many days and nights of anxiety
bringing his business into train and his books |
10 balance, and causes him to ''shin' around T
for loans or discounts to make mp his depleted |
bank account. But this is the least evil. His
daughters have made acquaintance, in our
free society, which they should never have |
made; needy adventures; men without char
acter, means or connection. His sons have
fallen into the habits OF the lounger at the bill
lard and card tables; the generous young fell
low who buys wine by the dozen-on the gov
ernOrs account-and has learned that the sea
son is jolly, and the company deuced |
good boys, and what's the use
of a professionl the old boy will leave
plenty, and in the meantime he has an allow
ance which will keep him in billiards, cigars,
&c. , and his bills are sent to the governor who
pays them with a growl. Bye and bye, as
result, there is a daughter at home, a discarded
or divorced wife; there is a son who is a rOue
and sharp; there is closing out of business;
an old man, with the relics of better days
clinging to him, soliciting for an insurance
or drumming up trade, perhaps for Il
former porter or clerk; few years of sorrow
and an untimely grave. Go back to Saratoga,
Newp ort, Long Branch and Cape May, and
you will find the same seeds being sown by
another generation, which Will be succeeded
by m ore; and still we go on and on.
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