The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-07-20
Home Summer Resorts.

"Where are you going to spend the
summer" said u prominent citizen.
well, l have not made up my
mind" said the second prominent citi.
zen. 81 have been talking it over with
my wife and we have about concluded To
fix up the house as summer resort and
stay at home. She thinks she can take
Ratchet and break some of the springs
to the bed, and shorten up the bed stats
SO they will fall down, and put some
Old cabbage stumps in the mattress, and
can make the bed about rs uncOmfOrta-
BILE as the one We had at a summer ho-
tel last summer at 81 day apiece.
but she has got to have fire in the
room all summer to make the room as
hot as our hotel room was, because our
house is so near Lake Michigan that it
Is dlsSpstinglycoOl in the SUMMER.
That may do for starter for sum-
mer resort" said the other prominent
citizen, "but she will want to tampcr
with the broiler SO it will burn one side
OF beef steak and leave the other raw,
and she will have to instruct her cook
how to make biscuit SO hard outside that
you can strike Il flint on them, and soft
inside"
''Oh, she can arrange that all right"
said the other. .'But she is going to
have hard time to train our servants
To make good imitation summer resort
servants of them. tell her she wants
to train them SO they will do nothing
without being paid half q dollar. I
have got the chambcrmaid so that she
will not make up the bed in my wife's
room until all the other beds are made,
unless she gives the girl quarter, and
my wife says it seems rea. natural. |
have instructed the man who answers
the bell not to come up for three-auar-
tiers OF IN hour after we ring. and to
always bring a pitcher of icc-water, the
way they 10 at summer hotels. Did
you ever notice that Il bell boy at a
summer hotel ALWAYS brings ice water
when You ring? He thinks that the
chances are when the bell rings that the
guest wants a pitcher of lee water, and
he takes it along so he will not have to
make another trip, and when he finds
you want something else he looks mad
and sets the pitcher down, and seems to
think you are fraud because the other
nine pitchers of ice-water he has
brought you are enough. Then we
have got to borrow lot of trunks, so
the porter can get the wrong trunk in
our room, and we have got to get in the
habit Of going down to the lake and
paying dollar an hour for an old boat
that never cost three dollars when it |
was new. l am having a bar fixed up |
in the barn, and shall make the family |
pay two shillings glass for lemonade
that has pint of water, q pinch of
acid, little sugar, and a strawberry
hat looks rs though il had been ground
lnder boot-heel. I think am getting
he thing down fine. Come over and
zee us from your hot and dusty resi-
fence on the West Side. and we will
make you tired in about two DAYS"
80, lam fixed. | am going to take
blanket and go out to the glue factory
md lay off this summer and catch suck
RS in the Menomince. and fight mos
Iuitoes," said the other citizen, land
harge myself 81 day. ] tell vnn ~
,..ie, ..;;.i nays--.;i1- r-Itu ',.,scomiur,s,
nd get just as mad, us he can to 90 to
saratoga or Long Branch" and the two
itizens went Out.-Dctr0H Free Press.