Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-07
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

have the country at their very do0rs,---
where grass and trees and birds still hold
their own uncrowded by the unsparing
rapacity OF. Improvement"
This summer fitting is largely the COM
pulsiOn, and the contagion of fashion,
and radically vanity, too, which'never ap-
pears in its best Towering interval except
on gregarious ground, is moreover an UNI
wearying impetus. No one candidly pre-
tends that he Is as comfortable in these
summer resorts as he would be at home,
Anless he has surplus of loose cash to
keep in sight for the things which in his
own domicile are matters of course, and
are Injuries in his temporary sojourn. His
satisfaction must be rather married in
the consideration of his expenditure,
and also in the contempla-
ton of class of favored mOrtals above
him, to whom "money is no object" and
whose summering is a blessed exemption
from all cares, and a happy remoteness
from the harassing intermediate ordeal
which brings them such desirable out
come of repose and effortless enjoyment.
To be sure the same contrasts are al
ways chatting the observation of the
moderately moneyed, but they are un-
commonly poignant in the juxtaposition
of "resort" life under the same roof.
Self assertion sometimes scores point
or two, but it must be of the facetious,
audacious sort, or it is dismal failure in
an atmosphere where solemn proclama-
ton of the equal rights of man would
collapse. When lately brace of COM
mercial tourists waited long and impa-
tiently for their breakfast, one of them
sought the landlord for an explanation
and meal. The worthy Boniface was
in mood of distracted trepida-
ton, because, as he emotionally
impaired to his disedified listener,
''Sir Felix Flabbergast and his party are
coming to the matutinal repast." The
iron man Rounoewell couldn't have re-
sponded more promptly to Sir Leicester
Dedlock, baronet, than our commercial
traveller, who said: "Prithee, friend, no
more of this; I'd have you understand
that Sir Philip McHugh wants his break
FAST
Well, it may be asked of disconnected
summer 'sresorters,' what cheer, what
gain? The answers vary and are scarcely
positive of any opinion. 1t may be
massed in the statement that the vast
majority Of the human family is born
restless, and finds satisfaction in changing
about. Vanity and concession it is then
evenly divided between women and men.
The one will never own that it is for any
motive save healthful one, while the
other will tell you nine times out of ten
that it is for Paul Potiphar's reason:
"Before married her I would have worn
yellow breeches on change if
she had commanded me = for
love. Now I would build her two houses
twice as large as this, if she requires it
for peace" That's the clue generally,
whether the man goes away with his
family or stays at home while they are
off. He then, has his choice of peace
through concession of departure, Or by
his domestic anchorage in their absence.
1t settles into question of limitation,
and his preference is to remain at home.
It is said Eve ate the apple that she might
dress, but if we knew all the circum-
stances of that celebrated case we should
probably find that man was in collision
with the tempter, with view to securing
some immunities for his sex, when that
primitive garden should be succeeded by
spas, springs and other resorts, with free
dress attractions for continuation of
the masculine conspiracy to be rid of
women several weeks every year. In
other words, that it is not so much the
cravings of the lovely creatures vanity
to exhibit and conquer in fresher
world, as it is the masculine thirst
for emancipation, and yearning for the
brooding hush after the departure of an
industrious tongue.
l saw Hen. Peck out the
other afternoon having a jolly
time with quartet of genial, heartsome
folk who take life easy, and make it as
easy as possible for everyone about
them.
O., if Mrs. Peck, now reveling in
the sophisticated enjoyments Of the
vague and mysterious ''East," could see
her sp ouse grown so reckless of caste
so plebeian and off-hand in his social
pleasures, what vigorous upbraiding
he'd get without doubt!
But then Hen. Peck bought his pres
ent term of freedom by mortgage on
some property and it equipped his con-
sort for her journey, and gave her fnery
which overawes the East with indefnable
| imagining concerning Hen. Peck's vast
wealth whereas! Well, perhaps it
| is better not to be too explicit about
the innocent forgeries on the credulity
of society---forgeries of position, enter
talnments, clothes, reputation, and what
not, which raise the figure of public ex-
pectation to the widest maglnable notch.
We all aid the fraud by specious falling
in with the popular verdict, when we
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