The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-06-26

to be n sort of disgrace entailcd on liv-
ing at home in the summer. The man
or woman who is unfortunate enough
to be so situated is either looked upon
with pity by sympathizing friends or else
with contempt by those who despise his
low condition. This imperative demand
OF fashionable society has driven me in
TO the most disreputable white lying, to
get rid of the indelible disgrace of being
considered poor. "Going ont of town."
said friend whom met on the street
the other day. i've been thinking of
IT," replied; which was literally true,
for I've been thinking Of it ever since
last year, and shall in all human proba-
bility keep on thinking about It till the
July Of 1887. know plenty of people
who haye good houses in the city and
who cannot, without serious inconveni-
ence, afford the expense of country
trip. who would suffer the pains Of
martyrdom rather than have it known
among their fashionable friends that
they had remained in the city in July
and August. They will sacrifice all the
comfort and convenience of their own
homes, to poke themselves away for six
or eight weeks in some out of the way
place where you have to pay sixteen or
eighteen dollars a week for a small, i'll
ventilated room, with straw bed as
hard as a board, bad coffee, tough
chickens, for they always kill all the old
superanuated hens and rOostcrs for sum-
mer boarders. The butter is half the
time delusion and snare, and the
milk which, in the grass region, you
might expect to get straight, comes to
you after an introduction to the pump,
for fear that they would spoil your appe-
tite for the fluid you are used to at home.
know several school teachers, male and
female, who by rigid economy can saye
up two or three hundred dollars year.
The instant the school is closed they
must rush abroad, and in the two
months of July and August they have
swamped the savings OF an entire year
and mortgaged themselves for many
months ahead. know a clerk who had
salary of fifty dollars a month; to
board in respectable house and dress
as he was expected to do would give
him no margin even for cigarettes; yet,
when he got his two weeks vacation,
last year, he borrowed fifty dollars, not
thinking how he could possibly pay it,
and adding TO it the weeks salary just
due and two weeks advance, started for
Saratoga leaving his last weeks board
unpaid. He went to the best hotel, took
a room at five dollars a day, donned the
new suit, for which he had not paid the
tailor, and swinging his cane started out
as masher. He visited the clubhouse
all fashionable men visit the club
house. Some one suggested poker, but
he did not understand poker; then a
tall, thin man with a dyed mustache
and mutton chop whiskers suggested
that there was very pretty game that
any gentleman could play, which was
named after the ancient Egyptian kings.
the only difference being that the name
was spelled phonographically Faro in
stead of Pharoah. My friend thought
that if the Egyptian king was tony
game it was the proper thing for swell
gentleman to do, and he would take a
hand in. He flung down ten dollar
bill and a mild hammered gentleman
with bushy whiskels and diamond in
his shirt bosom as big as street lamp,
gave him ten nice little round bits of
ivory in exchange for it. He put down
two on the ten of diamonds, and the
gentleman sitting behind the table raked
them in; he tried it again with like
result and in five minutes, by the tick
of the watch, his ten dollars had gone
where the woodbne twineth. His only
chance of getting square was to try an
other ten and that soon followed the
rest, and in one hour from the time he
had entered the clubhouse he was
cleaned out. There he was. no money
to pay his hotel bill, no money to get
home. He borrowed fifty cents for a
telegram and sent word TO his employ
ers that he had been robbed at the hotel,
and they forwarded him enough of mon
ey to pay his hotel bill and get home.
once back in the store, to hide his losses
and get even, he began a series of petty
thefts; he was soon detected and last
week was sent to the penitentiary for
two yesrs,-a victim to the fashionable
craze OF going out of town in summer.
Brooklyn has had lively sensation
with couple of herclergymen, not that
either of them has been at all derelict,
but it is the old, old story of a few old
fogy deacons and trustees trying to run
the minister. st. LuIe's is one of the
most fashionable and wealthy Episcopal
churches in the city of Brooklyn, and
up to three weeks ago st. Luke's re-
joiced in an assistant to the rector, a
gentleman of unquestioned piety, fine
education and rare good looks. Not a
breath has evsr been heard against him,
and to sum 1t up in brief, he was a most
DEVOTED and exemplary servant of Christ
and all that minister should be.
There is quite number of marriageable
young ladies In st. Luke's congregation,
and they looked! admiringly upon the
young assistant to the rector who would
one day be a rector himself and per-
chance abishop. Embroidered slippers,
fancy dressing gowns, velvet smoking
caps, and spangled tobacco pouches
seemed not 10 make the slightest i'm
preston on his 6inty heart and he
walked through the tangled web with