Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-24
A SUMNER SERMON
ON RESORTS AND RETREATS kA-
TiORAllY CONSIDERED.
The Folly Of Seeking Rest and Recreation
alta Fashionable Spa-Common Sense
Suggestions for Enjoying the
Heated Term in Comfort.
q. for a lodge In some vast wilderness,
snma honndlesS Jatiguitv of shade.


The proportion OF the population oil
cities who seek rural retreats and fash
ionable resorts during the hot months is
not so very large, yet the vacuum left
in social and business circles is very
Noticeable. The time for the Summer
exodus is rapidly approaching, and but
few moons will wax and wane before
the Saratoga trunk will be packed and
checked, and the valise g1rged with
few shirts and collars and the owners on
rheir way to the Elysium Of rest they
have been dreaming OF.
1t is almost too tantalizing a subject
for newspaper man TO write about.
His vacation is always coming, but sci.
dom materializes. 1t is his high priv.
lege and bounden duty to chronicle the
departures, and repress any desire that
NAV arise in his bosom to be one OF such.
His facile pencil notes the departure OF
"the charming and accomplished Miss
Y for White Sulphur Springs" or an
nounces that "0ur highly esteemed iel.
low townsman Mr.. b. will summer
IN the mountains" His mission
is to serve the public and his
employer, fear God, and take an occa:
sional street car ride to Rltchietown and
be happy and contented. But, enough
for the reporter. :,
While "going away for the summer"
is nice to think OF and dream about, IL
is not, under certain conditions, what
il il cracked up to he. Just now, no
doubt, the young lady who contem-
plates invading a fashionable summer
resort is busy preparing her outfit, jaw
Ing her dressmaker and making daily
assaults on fathers pocket book. In
| her leisure hours, during which
| time the poet declares she
is uncertain, coy AID hard TO
please, she INDUCES IN painting pictures
of fancy in rcseate hues, OF balls, beaux
flirtatons and coDquests in future
What is the life at fashionable summer
resort? Are its joys and pleasures
| calculated to invigorate the body, tone
up the system and strengthen the
nerves? BY no means. What woman
| can 20 through season and observe all
the requirements OF the place; make
four or five different toilets a day, dance
long and late, retire wearied IN mind
and body arise in the morning, or,
| perhaps, noon, and no. show the effects
of the strain upon her nervous and
physical system? Yet the chief occu-
patton at fashionable resort consists in
observing the above programme. For
purposes Of health, rejuvenation and
rest it were better to take the advice OF
| Hamlet and seek the clustered seclu.
sion Of a nunnery for brief season.
1t would seem that her stay at home
sister," who can Toll about all day in
negl;gec toilet and enj pleasant even
ing in the parlor, and retire at a
reasonable hour, and who early
greets the morning sun is more
a subject OF envy than the slave OF fash
len aud custom.
1t is, we believe, the proper thing,
and considered highly respectable to go
away for the Summer, and when thing
| is fashionable the dictum OF society
allows of no appeal. II the decree must
be executed why not steal away to some
quiet nook where the demand on ones
time is not so imperative, and where
that motley fool tine society young man,
| does not loaden the evening air with
sentimental signs and does not atfront
common sense with the vaporings
of idle speech and soft nonsense.
You are, perhaps, harrassed enough by
these gillyflowerssof society at home.
What YOU want is the recreation OF rest.
Indeed you do.
"a surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing To the stomach brings -
That's the kind OF a summer resort girl
we would be, and, as "Clara Belle"
would say, "and don't you let it elude
your memory"
The same story might apply in GER
tain sense TO the clerk and merchant
who generally take their turn. In
the case of the clerk the pauciiy
OF his hank account is the stumbling
block TO a reckless dissipation. His
slumbers, however, are frequently dis.
turbed by visions too gorgeous for reali-
cation, and his day dreams are broken
by sentimental signs for that paradise
which is not and cannot be. His best
judgment should lead him modest ri.
raj retreat, il he finds to seek he must
retreat little, take things easy seasoned
with some light occupation OF mind and
| DOuS W hcCp ui~ blh'h ilOlh opilchipE
and his appetite from leaving him.
Don't go to a fashionable inquisition
and be raCked AMI come home
to recuperate. Rather take a
walk, il the roads are good. You will
reap more benefits.
There is pleasure I'm the painless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore"
There is for fact
Boiled down into the quintessence OF
brevity the above rambling remarks
are meant for an appeal for reform in
summer "hys" 1t is for the good OF
the dear public in whose welfare We
are so mucn interested. And with this
explanatory foot note We leave you,
dear brothers and sisters, to the prayer.
ful consideration OF the thoughts we
| have presented