The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-30
JACK BROWNS BRASS.
It Enables Him to Thrive During
the Summer Time.

curls the bangs Of humanity, it also
stimulates their brains in Il most unprc-
cedented manner. There arc some peo-
pie whose mental equipment hibcrnatcs
all winter, but who fairly coruscate with
wit and wisdom in the dog-days.
There is Il fellow hcrc-you can call
him Jack Brown, but that is not his
namc-who has made himself by his
summer campaigns. In winter, lie does
nothing but tie up tho ends of the sum
mcr work. His brains lie perfectly fall
low from September to May, but the
work that they do from May to Scptcm-
Der is worth a golden halo. Jack is one
of those young men who appear TO be
not much OF person. He can dance
well, and his clothes fit him, and he
never falls in love. Mothers love me-"
he has been heard to modcstly remark;
''for though | am the ideal OF the per-
fcctly irresistible detrimental, | never
have been known to entertain scnti-
ments toward their daughters lilo
talks rather we'll, knows everybody and
every thing in tho way of gossip, is
good-tcmpercd, and leads germans capt.
tally.
With these modest social acquire
ments, he is universally in demand.
Never was there man more sought aft
CIR, and-with due regard for jacks
charms-lcss worthy of it. The finest
follows III New York, with brains and
pedigrecs and incomes and futures, are
overlooked by hostesses, who will have
Jack and no other Nobody knows
whore he comes from, worry few who he
10 IIn
Sheppard-hc must have begun very
early, for he is only about twcnty-six
now-yet tho most exclusive doors in
town swing back To receive linn, as
though he were Prince George, or Ward
McAllister, or King Cctewayo, or some
other largc-sized celebrity.
In the winter he leads germans and
organizes thcater and toboggan parties
he has some business somewhere
wn-town, but nobody knows any
thing about that-and in the summer
he goes and spends Sundays ut country
houses and seaside resorts During
these excursions he is always some
bodys guest. Other men go to hotels
and inns and spend the hard-carncd dol
lar on four-by-siX bedrooms under the
tin roof, where the water boils in tho
pitcher and you can fry eggs on the gut
ter outside the window. When they take
drives they pay at summor-hotcl rates
for two broken indcd stccds in a ram
shacklc buggy, and when they go for a
row on the lake the boat is SO old that
they have to keep balng it out with
their new straw hats, which turn vel
low and curl up. All this time Jack
x,r1,.N :
gomery-Jcnks' family is lying spread
i'll wicker chair in his white flanncls,
reading the Sunday papers. listening to
the swash OF the waves down there on
the beach, feeling little cool Ercezcs
play through his hair and slipping iced
liquid from glass that fits into Il hole
Ill tho chair-arm. Later on Miss Mont
gomcrv jerks comes out in Il fresh mus
lin dress and 4 large crimped white
muslin hat with yellow poppics climb
ing up the back Of it and Il mist of
white vail softcning her enchanting
featurcs-comes out, drawing on pair
of loose tan gloves and asks him if he
would like to go driving with her in her
new spldcr-phacton that papa gave her.
so she drives him out, sitting up high
on her dark-grcen cushions, her whip
and reins held to perfection The new
phaeton runs as smoothly as a stage
ghost, GOODNESS has come up with the
sinking of the sun, and the air smells
OF the sea and the pines. When they
drive home through the cleaning they
have to put on their coats, and Miss
jerks just touches her team of chest
nuts into hammering trot that whirls
them past the spectral woods and fields
and brings them up in a whrl of dust
before the gray stone Roman arches of
old Montgomery-Jcnks seaside cottage.
Then there is dinner, and music, and
talking; all so cool and pleasant and
luxurious. In the morning he has to go
BACK to town, but all goes we'll even
now-the boy has not BACKED his pat
ent-leathcrS, the servants do not demand
money OF him, Father jerks commuta-
tion-ticllct is good for any number of
guests, and the daughter bushes pen
slvely as She bids them goodbye Who
would not be Jack Brown?
The most maddcning thing about him
Is that he always is so sure, so confident
that every one will be deliriously en-
rapturcd to sec him.
uoins up 10 Oh Aulligan'S at New
port over next Sunday no says on
Thursday afternoon, in response to ali
inquiry as to his movements.
You don't say so? Old Mulligan or
the girls ask you?"
"Both-all OF them-fairly dote on
me, that crowd. Stuck on my STYLE.
dear boy. Can't do without me-"
When Gid nc ask you?,
"Oh, he hasn't dono it in black and