The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-08
EASTERN SUMMER RESORT.
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 Hello" says the cool ei,ssea, who has not been awAy from heme this sum. mer, to the nrsd, dusty. dirty citizen, who has juss come into the store. thrown h,s gr,psack down under the safe, pulled ed his linen ulster and thrown 1t behind the deor. and called tor A sprinkling DO, fali ot water and bar of sosp.> ~ thought yo1 promised last year. if ~c would ior- give you tor going summer resorting. that you would never do il again. and here you arc inst coming back from d six weeks trip, looking as though you had been holding bag beside thre.h- ins machine. on a windy day. O, wash the eindes oH from yoas ears. and go home and. change you, shut. Why. man. what asls yous You have los, hty pounds. Becn sick :"
 Nav. haven't been sick. Tha, Is. not sick abed. ast sick and the te. turned ptcdigal registered on the store ,esel." by ~aping tho cinders itom around his eafs on tha, long used pie1e ot crash. You sec the women folks got me into i, .his year They wanted to 70 east. Last year we pattonised Wis. consin summer resort rolling mill, slept over laundry. and paid f,fsh Avenue hotel pt,oes, and shss year they sald ~e would go east and just take comfort, They teased me into il. and am all.e, but the family are all .isk. and they arc coming home by easy stages. Espec, ~e will all get together by next spr,ns You see we vent to sasasoga hrst. had been paying two shillinga q bottle lot Saratoga water al tho drug store here, and when got there and found the water tree. and we could driuk all we wanted, I sa,d to the tolks. says l. Now you wan, to take shis all ,n. Here is regular Sara. ,oga water, just as free as hydrant water al home. and we must drink u for all tha, IS out" We'll. they all wea, ,n for wa,e, The hrst day think drank a barrel. and the women just fairly irrigated them selves with il. by gum. we all had to go to bed. thought was toandered. dead sure, Had to have q doctor. and ~e couldn't 70 down to ous meals tor two dAyA Never eas a moaihtul, eacep, soda crackers. fou two days. and had 10 pay for meals Jus, the same. Then when ~e dtd begin to eat we fairly paraiysed tho table. Kat everything to gss even. and thea. swow we all got s.ek from eating so much. and had to have doetot again. Well. we %, better, and hired carriage 10 go out on the road. and a spsiukllnx eAt, ran into us, and tipped us oses. spoiled t~o new dresses and sprained my elbow. We leh Saratoga on account of our health. and the slekne,s, hotel h,ll and the btoken carriage cost me sts hundred dollars, 10 say nothing about the dresses. Then NC ~en, to New York Hot We'll. should prevafe ate. 1t ~As hotte. ,n Ae~ io,k ,haa Il is in d A Turkish bath all the tune. They would ,hioa piece of ice on the sidc~a alk and Il would siss for | minute, and then there was nothing bu, wet spot. We took rooms on the Ethiopian plan. and got our meals al a eaEa. That Is French fot hash foundry The hrs, d.nnef we had there fairi, ain,cd They had to bring me to. The bili fairly made me ufed- Well. you can form some ,dea 1 ordered four large porter house Mcaks. and the steaks alone were sixteen dolla,s The water showed me the price on the ms-asf- oY that's another French gax
 -four dolisu a piece for porter house steaks. There 1t was m plain hIures. bu. l hadn't seen II before. don't knas wha, the other truck we ate was scheduled al. bu, the whole thing was shir,y-seven dollars. My wife os sdesed lot of fieo. h dishes, and lad [, all to her. BH after tha, you bet sscefed the crowd on ,o \ cheap place. found a friend there that ed 10 know here, and he wanted to borrow five doiiAfs, and thought he would know the cheap placss to tced. so asked him, and he pu, me on to liyes and bAcon ranch % s.sth avenue, and ~e pulled through all right. Then they go, me down to Long Branch, and nosh. ing would do bat mutt % in bathing. and they %. me into . pair of elosmes that wouida', be iosnd dead Ia. Had so 70 right Tn bzrcfoo o,ed, with that bunion of mine sticking right up. cold and white like lighthouse ss sea. tust vent iH onoe and swallowed sbos, . patent pail full of salt water, wosse than the Saratoga s,ga, and wave gos on top of me and was wearing . hole In the sand with my head, when dude hauled me out by the iex and isfs me on the sxnd to dry. and he weat szliopiag into the water with the wimmen. think they wosid have been .n there till .his time. if the tide hadns gone out ] was Iuss as near dead as ~aai ,o be, siAnding ia the saa, and ~as blis,sfcd 70 the skin peeled oG 0. haw did look. We stayed there fe~ dzys, and you remember had to dfaw on the house for more money. Well. fl vest. That's ali know zbou, f. had 10 stand with roll tn my hand all the time. Then ~e went up into the White mountains. and caught cold. and tha, settled II. and said that is enough summer sssorsing for the old maa,' and came home Now l waa, you to gss justice of the psacs and tu take the pledge, and want you so witness il, that ] never % sway from home again in the summer. Ia the visssr 1 may 70 to come cool climaas, but ss toeg ~ fsason mainfsins hes throne the old man stzys in Milwaukee h the summer" snd he booked oysv the letter. . fev minutes. svose . irssie becsuss . Mianssosa eus- tomn had tailed. and veas home to take