The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-19
NEEDS OF WORTHY WOMEN
Let PhilanthropiSts Establish Health
Resort for People of Limited Means.
Away with Toothpicks-0 Obstacles in the Way
of a Successful Women's Hotel Which II
Would Be Very Difficult to SufmOunt

boughs inviting and white caps racing I'M
der blue skies, to work all day answering
letters from strangers does not fill the popu-
lar idea of q national holiday. 1t isn't los
ing the holiday, whose oDlv temptation 10
to stay at home and get double work done.
but there are not so many blue. buoyant
days in a life that one wants to stay shut
up over q writiDg-desk.
The prevailing idea appears to be that
writer's only have TO scribble off an article
in an hour or two. with their eyes shut. and
then to be absolutely destitute of employ
ment the remaining 166 hours of the week,
unless other people kindly make demands
upon them TO keep them from monotony.
Those demands at present do not lack va
rlety. One man out in Kansas wants his
place sold for him as home for . sort of
brotherhood and sIsterhood community
like the Mennonites. A Southern lady
wants, also, knit lace sold for her and Or
ders obtained. Another wants to know Of
q good, lOw-priced boarding-house for an
Invalid at the seaside. wish knew one
myself. and so do great many other peo-
pie. The most that can be said with truth
of average summer resorts is that some are
not as bad as Others but when il comes to
sending an invalid to the seaside for quiet.
thoroughly wholesome fare. and enough OF
it to gain strength pom, with decent clean
illness and comfort. at reasonable rates L
dare not risk my reputation for trust
wOrthiness by pretending to know any thing
of the kind.
The next man or woman who wants to
devote a fortune TO the good of suffering
humanity needs to buy strip OF sea beach
and found q health resort for people of
rAd a
means lite and strength TO many over
worked persons from the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
or small business people. who cannot afford
to pay even the S. q week or the jersey
coast.
The only indispensables for such q resort
would be good beds, scrupulously clean
rooms. plenty of good food and a chance at
all outdoors fine days-yes. and fire for
chilly days 1t would only be necessary
to advertise that board gould be had at
such a place. with nothing going on" to
have it filled to overlooking.
If some person really wanted to do good
in the most thOroughgoing manner, such
place could be kept for So to s. week
board, and he could reap to per cent.
profit. No business under heaven pays
such terrific interest when successful at
all, as your summer boarding-house. In
what other business can one expect In
three months To make years income and
lay up q fOrtunef
WHAT THE BUSINESS WOMAN DOES.
Your sharp business woman will rent q
furnished house at a popular resort pay
the outrageous rent asked for such things.
buy every morsel that goes on the table at
corresDondingly high rates. pay servants
extra wages. and clear enough from her
boarders to live on and lay by capital for
enlsrging her house next year.
In all that time probably no one at her
table ever has enough to eat. with the
exception of the setting hens" who line
the verandas. and the young women who
devour pound OF candy unyaryingly be-
tween meals.
That shrewd business woman wants to
supplement- her counting up of summers
gain by reflections like these:
Il have made good thing this season. !
shall have good dress or two and 60 to
town in time for theaters and concerts in
the fall to recruit and have pretty penny
laid by. But the young teachers off on
their vacations and the invalid women
away from their families to regain health
60 home with half the benefit they might
have from the sea air if had given them
just little more to eat. The effect of the
sea air is to make people hungry; it stimu-
up strength from the food. They didn't
lay mp much from my table, Pill engage.
They had to gain on Jobs dessert. He Tiled
himself on the east wind.
uau aiIOWeO t0Osc OOaTQeT8 n rulT0
of those miserable small slices of bread or
minute biscuit. a second help of vegetables
or half q gall more of berries, 1t might have
given them strength TO last into the winter
and helped them to get the better OF dis
ease that is sapping their lives. That young
mother will go homean have hcmorrhages
by October, and some of the blood will be
on the bills l bank away snugly. Those
young clerks who take their fresh air in q
lump for the year would have been better
ia all m n
If they could have had enough fish and po-
tatOes for breakfast at my house. Mackerel
were cents piece. and L might have let
them had whole one-it isn't much for O
boy to eat. But instead shifted at people
who always wanted more boarding than
they ever have at home. and put up the
smart, silly girls to sheer at them for ask
ing for fish and chops for breakfast after
they had been out three hours rowing,
IF they get to taking q glass of beer
or punch every day to keep off the
wretcbed, all-gone feeling, / suppose I
have had hand in It. have trafficked in
nervousness. furnishing and faintness.
Two or three of my boarders go home to
die this year. Beyond q doubt good nour-
lshment, with our fine air, would have
saved them, but that Is no matter TO me. /
have had good season, and there will be
plenty in their places to take tie rooms
next year."
There will, unless people happen to get
over being fools. as they may sooner or
later. But how does it look in black and
white. this soliloquy which takes place in
the inner consciousness OF nearly every
boarding house keeDerf
A sprightly letter from Chica 60 saws: 81
won't ask you TO let ME thank you for your
article. but will tell you that my finger
came near being broken, also. by one of
those swing doors. My finger was. as 10
Ko says as good as dead for long time.
There is another breach of good man.
ners which makes me begin to think our
youthful rules of good behavior were all q
mistake. One of them said, Never use q
toOthpick In presence OF your food. In
presence of any one.' was added by our
monitors If those rules were a mistake it
explains the far-reaching. all-pervadi in
doors ana ont of doors, Datrician. plebeiaD,
black, white, braZen, modest, universal
public use of the hateful little splinter.
A BRUTE's WEAPON.
"But if the rules were right why in the
name of decency must those who never Of
fend by any personal act be put to torture
and nausea by well-dressed brutes armed
with this weaponf If any one could give
me q good reason for usiDg n toothpiek at
| the table. before others have begun tho
meal, sometimes might be pacified little.
| How would il do to ask hotelkeepers and
restaurant men not to supply the nuisancei
| l hesitate to go TO q restaurant, 90 sicken.
| ing has the practice become"
| Many will sympathiZe heartily with the
writer of this spirited note but we can only
remind her that using toothpicks. twiddhn <
| of keys in pockets, scratching of whiskers