Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-17
SUMNER RusriCAiInNs.

Anxious mothers of antiqusted spinsters,
buxem widows, fashionable coqusttes, pro.
fashionable N sshers with hair parted in the
middle, and the baggage smasher rejoice
when the festive mosquito begins to blow his
tiny horn, for they all regard this as the
signal for commencing the usual summer
business. But il is evident that the mania
for summer resorts and sn MINER travel is on
the wane. But few could incur the epense
and after all it was discovered that constant
travel in dusty aud sufocating cars entailed
more burdens than lu1uries or pleasures.
Sill there will be large crowds at the fash
ionable watering places. The widow will be
there representing experience without its
wrinkles, matronly beauty and maidenly
freedom combined, grief with laughing
eye, sorrew in a house of festival, a silver
moon in a sable cloud, a mournfu pheaix
trying to rise out of the funeral urn that
holds the consecrsted ashes of her
dead husband. Tue miss in her
teens fresh from graduation will
be there in her transparent simplicity and
credulity, with spirits as Wild and free as the
gszelle upon the mountains, moving amid
scenes of purpetual Joy. Rich old bachelors
who have attended all the fashionable wa
tsring- places since their energence from the
ark, will be there, telling the same stories
with which they amused Noah and his fam
lily during the wet weather season. There
will be a conspicuous absence of young
beauI, for, be it said 10 their credit, they
have no time to waste 10 fashionable recre-
atoms. But the chronic scold will be there,
hunting for something TO damn, and to worry
the proprietor, aud TO mar the pleasure Of
visitors. The scandalmoDgers will be pres
ent, hunting up business. The Mushroom
aris:ocrats will be there, looking down upon
the rest OF the company as very little ac-
count. They will put on all sorts of airs,
gather themselves into a select group,
refusing to associate with those who have
mind but not much money, the standard by
which they measure worth and respecta-
bilny. From behind the bsrricade of the
money bags btqueathed them by low and
illiterate parentage, they lift their uptugned
noses at those who, instead of being made
like themselves OF gold or porcelain, are
made of ordinary clay A fashionable wa
tering place without the Snob family would
be shorn of its accustomed variety. Children
are q well.spring of pleasure, and of oorrse
they will be on hand screaming aud bowling
as usual. The fond mother will continue TO
usher them into company, and they will
show off their training by kicking and
squealing, which neither threats nor cs iolipg
prevents. They are brought 10 the springs
to improve their lungs, already as strong and
musical az the whistle of the VIII Kyle, and
if they grow up hearty and robust in pro-
portion to the constant strain upon
their yelling capacity, they will become
giants, with lungs of copper, faces of brass
and frames OF iron. The howl is continued
most OF the night to the great annoyance of
nervous neighbers, aud is msde more hid
eous by the squeaking alluremente Of nurse,
mother, mother-iu.lsw and aauts. Notwith-
standing The sneb snd the dIabolical squall
Of spoiled children there are many atirac-
tons at the. fashionable watering. places.
Lifelong friendships are made, and all are
benefited by the change, the recreations they
afford. Ueder the high-pressure system OF
mental and physical destruction which We
call business men clatter and shatter them
selves downward toward the grave and
knock themselves to pieces like steam
may be thus run, but without ade- |
qusts fuel it forever stops. The over
worked man VIII also stop with |
on: the vital fuel Of rest, food and sleep.
For twelve months he has scalded his throat
with hot coffee to wash down hurr ied break |
fast, as he runs away to his business in the |
morning. He chokes himself with an indi-
gestible lunch at noon. He undertakes TO
make up these omissions and de6cie ncies by |
gorging himself with a prodigious dinner |
when the days work is over. Repeating |
these things day after day, he is evidently in |
s coalition to go in dock for repairs. A |
used-up engine is sent 10 the junk-shop; a |
used-up man may find ia season of total |
at the springs in the country
anyw here, 30 he ia free from mental and fnan- |
cial responsibility-the repairs he needs and |
without which he will soon be physical and |
menia al wreck. The rest which carries with it |
no relief 10 body or mind, and which dwells |
upon business and an anxiety to return to |
labor, is no rest at all. The overWorked /
man wants absolute repose. His busy con-
scierce may repreach him with Incidence.
But to be indolent is exactly what he needF.
He has been too long industrious, and is pay |
ing the penalty. A spell of laziness, taken
in summer, leads to health, wealth and