The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-28
Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD.

Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD.
New YORK, Dune 26. = Everybody meets
you with the same question, "Where are you
going to spend the summer ~ and everybody
is full of places to which they advise you not
to 60.
The ideal summer resort seems to be some
thing unobtainable to the feminine mind.
She wants salt water to bathe in, and yet she
prefers that the salt water shouldn't be bill
lowy, and knock her down. Then she wants
sandy beach, but not one that's too sandy,
and which will cause its grains to get into
her low shoes, but still sandy enough for the
children to dig in. She prefers the hotel
while 1t really is hotel, conducted on hotel
principles, should be sociable, and yet she
gets raving mad when, after lot of socia
bility, she discovers that her newly-made ac-
quaintances criticise her as well as the other
people who are about. Back of the hotel she
wants the mountains, because she likes the
mountain air once in a while, and she likes
the children to go there on picnic, but she
hopes most earnestly that it won't be
q snaky mountain, and that there will be no
poison ivy. Then in the hotels she wishes it
distinctly understood that she desires num-
Der Of Closets and it never dawns on her that
II she had as many closets as she wanted the
hotel would be short about ten rooms. Then,
although it's distinctly understood that maids
and servants are to be kept out of kitchens
and laundries, she can't be made to under
stand that the discipline of the hotel won't
allow her maid to go in and do a little fine
washing for her. She don't care whether
anybody elso's maid gets there or not. Oh,
lovely woman is a most unselfsh creature
when she is arranging to spend the summer
in the country.
|, myself
AM LOOKING FOR AN ELYsIuM,
but l hope it will be place where the air and
the cooking will be good, and l shall be left
peacefully alone where l can loaf and read
and have my own good time in my own way.
L don't know whether / shall get the place, or
not, but hope, and hoping helps one along
great deal. At present 1 believe that spot
that 1 want is in the Allegheny Mountains,
but it's only my belief in mankind makes me
think I've found it.
AMERICAN MEN THINK OF THE WOMEN.
Apropos of mankind, are any Of yours going
abroad, and did 1t ever dawn on you as, soon
as it is mentioned that one is how greediiy you
begin to speculate on what he will bring back
to you? The Englishman has very little idea
of bringing things back--that he brings him
self he considers quite enough, But the
American wants to delight your soul by bring
ing something to everybody; letting the girls
unpack his trunk as he fires out bundle after
bundle, and says: "This is for you; got it in
Paris''; and ''this is for Kate, picked it UP
In London, and there are lot OF mechanical
toys got for the children in Germany. What
did bring your mother? Well, Pm going to
show that to your mother when she is all by
herself'; and so he laughs and takes her of
in a corner, and after warning her, Snow,
you mustn't laugh" she looks up in his face,
and he says: swell, suppose you think it Is
rather silly, but 1 saw this, and thought OF
the time when you used to tie a true lovers
knot in blue ribbon for me, and when l saw
this made
INTO TRUE LOVERS KNOT
said to myself; ''Dick, your wife has got to
have that, and the man who gives 1t to her IL
the man who has loved her all his life, and
who, while he don't need a true lovers knot
to bind him to her, still likes to think that
she has got the outward symbol OF his love-
and that it's pinned on her breast" And
then there flashes before her eyes the most
DeauJlIul True lovers hnOJ WOfheu out III ula
monds that you ever saw in your life, and
the children collect around and see it, and the
proud buyer of everything is delighted be-
cause everybody else is delighted, and thinks
after all, that the best part of going away il
coming home. It's funny how little trinket
book, a photograph or little box OF
sweets delights the souls OF women and
children. Do you know, | think it's a sigr
there is still deal of innocence left In the
world, that the world isn't as black as 1t IL
painted, and that 1t is all going to turn out
for the best after all.
AN AUTHORS EXCUSE FOR JUDAS
Have you read Jerome X. Jerome's new
book? It's called the Story Of Pilgrim
age" and has in it the est description of the
Passion Play that have ever read, and have
read them until wished that Oberammergar
had never existed. But this one, beside tell
: ing about the play, tells of the impression
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