The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-10-11


the Forclaud, are not TO bo mentioned to cars
polite, spite of the reiterated efforts OF doctors
| 10 sond tlcir patients thither, bccDugo in
midsummer their beach IL swaCning with
nursery maids and their piera vita the most
| Objectionable form OF shop girls and counter
| jumpers Scarborough is onduu.blc only
IN October, after the migration OF the tribes OF
| Israel, the investture of the royal favor
extended to daughter of Moses not
having as yet knighted tho haun,s OF her Co
roliglonnaries, Eestboume, although Nat
and unintcresting, il mentioned hindly, and
shelters members OF the diplomatic body;
whilo Hastings has already LOST the short~bYal
glamour it possessed through the whilOm
residence of tho five children of the crown
princess of Prussia. Far-seeing parents Of
exalted rank, anxious to combine economy
with show, utility with pleasure send the
nursery detachment to reyel in shrmps and
padding in an unobtrusiye seaside resort,
such as Bognor or Croiner, while they glori-
ously depart without oncumbranco' for tho
Mediterranean, Norway, or Scotland. II Is
not quite the thing to 80 north just yet;
and II requires some amount of strategy to
steer clear of the shoals that impede the pro-
gress of fashion in its migratons. Tho con-
unent is always safe from not being so over
looked; 1t il not necessary TO DO neodlessly
accurate, fer il il just az easy not, on return
ing from nowhere in particular, to announce
that yOu had just quilted AK les Bails az tho
Duchess OF Manchester arrived and reached
Cannes tho day before Lord and Lady Dali
housie had left
For the few who care not to have thoir
movements discussed or the many who can
not dip into tho flesh-pots of Egypt III the
costly hotels whore tho firedes flock, there is
the vast seaboard from which to make selec-
ton of evils. For them arc spread out in
windows the fell announcements OF "apart-
mcnts," traps to the unwary, pitfalls to tho
trusting, leading them into unsusPected depths
Of misery, discomfort, wretched beds, and I'M
catable food. For those endowed with largo
families, house agents lie in wait, with orders
to view" residences rcplete with every accom-
mediation, modern improvements, and mag
nlficent views over land and sea. None
but those who have gone through the
ordeal can know the bitterness of hopes
raised only TO DO rudely dashed to the ground
the fallacious descriptions, the Disseminating
realities, the final acceptance of the least men
decious fraud Then the monutOnOus, aimless
purposelcss existence; bathing i'll the morn
ing, incoming on parade and pier ia tho after
noon, tatlousiy gazing at the moon on the
water at night in the piercing cold of an Au-
gust evening, and hugging ones self with the
delusion that one is recruiting mind and body.
IL il picOua and ludicrous at the same time,
AID calls forth wild resolves never 10 be 20 in
weighed again. Yet whole towns, basiing in
the moon-and- water sunshine of these isles,
live all the year round on the amiablc weak
ness or remorscless custom which at mideum-
mer drives all human beings ont of
their homes in quest of nomldic ey-
istenco. Numbcress reasoning, rational
creatures waste on that doubtful
pleasure the substance they could
spend on more genuine enjoyment and stint
themselves for eleven months in order to DO
thoroughly uncomfortable the twelfth. More
over, the wealthy, the great, the noble and the
hangers-on Of large establishments, smile con-
temptuously and wonder aloud what makes
dear So-and- SO go to such a dull questionable
place as Puddleton or Sloshum- in the Marshes
instead of running up to the Fiords, deer stalk
ing in the highlands, or trying his luck at San
Carlo "Why on earth does he not turn his
chicks out to grass, and live and act like
gentleman" Which in the case of So-and-So
means: why does he not have ten thousand
Il year, or be a toady TO a duke, and if lie can't
get one, to mushroom parvenu2" That pro-
fcssion pays well among us The demand is
great, and the supply is drug in the market.
DES.
RichmhonG In war Times.
Mary Z. Early, in The Philadelphia Times.
Every Tuesday night, during the winter, We
had meeting Of what we called "The Starva-
ton Club" our refreshments consisting of cold |
water; but as we had excellent music, high |
spirits, and youthful buoyancy, we enjoyed |
these meetings greatly and danced away mer-
rily with the young officers. l remember one !
of these who had won a golden spur, of which |
he was so proud that he wore it to meeting |
of the club, spreading havoc among the young |
girls, whose trains he ruthlessly tore. At |
other entertainments we had handsome and |
abundant suppers, even during the utmost |
people could still command fowls, game and |
old Virginia hams, though imported wines and .