Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26

cooler on the piazza. Finally, they capped in
jury with insult by ordering eight lemonades
with straws in them from the reading room and
drinking them under the very noses OF the St.
Georgians who had been robbed even of their
Ice water. St George people don't 60 fishing
on Sunday-not SO much because Of Sabbath
rian sentiment rs for the reason that the fish
ing grounds are frequented on that day by
many jovial gents who having coming down on
Saturday night. delight to accelerate the lows
of Sabbath angling by the consumption of slim
uiants between bites.
POPULAR "READrNa ROOM"
The ''reading room" referred to is an institu-
ton mainly social, situated Just over the st,
Georges Island ''store." Men folk do about
all the reading there, usually at 10 cents read,
whether they stand up and do it or prefer to sit
at table. Reading of a milder sort is sent
over to the hotel for the ladies when they hap
pen to want anything Of the kind after q bath
or before going to bed. The store itself is
the place one goes to to buy anything that one
can possibly want; it affords a rendezvous for
fishermen of duty, who sit about picturesauely
on the counters and flour barrels chewing to-
bacco and listening to the plunk-plunk Of a
banjo.
BATHING AND SAILING.
Bathing goes on at all hours. At high tide
the bosom of the broad Potomac on the other
side of the island welcomes the gleeful holiday
"tubs" in curious bathing machines on the
wharf in front of the hotel. Great wooden
boxes full Of holes are lowered by windlasses
into the water; they fill Immediately, and the
bather gets into the box az one would take a
bath at home, secured from observation by a
little house, and with unlimited fresh salt water
flowing in on every side. Every evening after
supper all hands go off for sail. There are
enough fine big boats to accommodate every
one and the amusement is cheap enough, sail
ing privileges being free of charge and skip
pers provided After the evening sail there is
music and dancing, and SO, with q reasonable
amount of loafng and special picnics now and
then, the days here are passed. Everybody is
hungry all the time and the girls complain Of
being ravenous half an hour after each Of them
has eaten dinner for three.
THE POPULAR SUMNER BACHELOR.
How fortunate is the summer bachelor! Be-
hold him as he reclines in a hammock, sur
rounded by bevy of fair creatures in petit
coats-a center of worship in the absence Of
other available and unattached masculinity.
1t doesn't matter at all what sort Of man he is
He may be feeble in mind and effeminate Of
aspect; his manners may be crude and his ap-
pearance dyspeptic. But at a summer resort,
as distinguished female poet puts it,
"a man is q man after ell,
II he only wears whiskers and hat;
His , p pres. nee, inst puts the ozone
mosrh here"
Pantaloons. however, are tho essential things
But, suppose a not infrequent Gaze. The
bachelor is not really truly bachelor at all, but
ameasly married thing who has been letting the
girls imagine him a single man for purposes Of
selfish enjoyment. His wife turns up some fine
day, and then, all, what a change. All general
genuine interest in him ceases at once; his GIN
ger bread has lost its gliding. and he may as
well become a lone fisherman or devote his ex-
elusive attention to crabs from that time on.
Even the fat girl, whose one accomplishment is