Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-30
DON'T GO AWAY YET.
NO Necessity for Leaving washington 1t This
Season.

Season.
fAk coAfoRTs or HOME MID NOT h TX
CHANGED roR THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE
SUMNER RESORT BOARDING HOUSE UNTIL THE
WEATHER ~ MUCH WARNER TRAN IT Has BEEN.
TUE 'LADY OF THE HOUSE" WAS
- reading letter and 90 she read she made
comments.
ics' TINS seems to be the very place. We
can have the front rooms There's o fne
peach orchard. Yes, and it's only Eve min
utes from the station. That's the very thing.
There is boating and fishing for you Henry,
and q tennis court, too, and" but here her
countenance fell and she added despairfngly:
1T il the old story. They won't take any
childrenp'
"Oh, don't lot that interfere, nv dear. II the
place is otherwise satisfactory" said Henry.
NONSENSE said his wife; you know We
are going away simply because Of the children.
Yet, nobody seems to be willing to board them
What can we do2"
happy thought seemed to strike the hus-
band. why, he said, i've can drown 'em -
1t is needless to follow the dialogue further.
Tor 1t can be readily understood that the lady
was vexed and that her husband had finished
his breakfast and made haste to 60 to his Office
DON'T GO.
Now, the first piece Of advice that should be
given to those who are already contemplating
leaving Washington for the country is simply
this-don't go. What do you want to 90 away
for' Will you find the cramped quarters of .
summer boarding house or hotel as comfort
able as you have in town. Not by great deal
HIRE You can roam about from room to room.
can open all the doors in the house and
get more currents of air than are good for you.
You can do what you choose, in fact. instead Of
being imprisoned within the four walls Of an
authenticated closet and under constant orders
and obliged to keep the stringent regulations
as the case may be-
Don't go away until you have got to- ard then
only stay as long as may be absolutely neces-
sary-that is to say, if you are person of ordi-
nary means and can afford to keep up but one
establishment. or course this doesn't apply to
bloated bondholders who have acountry seat as
well as town house. For them there is real
going away. They merely move from one house to
another. But they are not as fortunate as poorer
people are apt to think them. The country
seat grows tiresome, and then they must put up
with the same discomforts as other people
undergo If they travel. Furthermore, they
feel bound to 60 to this country place every
summer. whether they wish to do SO or not,
whereas poorer people can board in Maine one
summes and In Virginia the next il theys
choose.
CAN'T TELL By CORRESPONDENCE.
But what quantity of correspondence the
people who 60 about boarding in summer have
to go through with. And. after all, it is a mere
experiment, when they finally buy their tickets
for certain place. which thei- correspondence
has convinced them mus. be everything
that the heart can desire. When they ar
rive at their destination everything NAV be
wrong, and then more correspondence takes
place and the whole family moves on to try an
other place. There is no way of finding out
ABOUT the summer resort except by actually
going to it.
A gentleman in Washington once vent down
to the railroad depot to ascertain when the
trains left for the place his wife and chill
dren were about to start for. When he gave
the result Of his investigation to his better half
she serenely inquired:
And did the man at the depot say what sort
Of place it WASP
mo, never asked him" said the husband.
the wife.
She was very absurd. No ticket agent can
be expected to be an adviser to private fami-
lies going into the country for the summer
but 1t would, nevertheless, be a great blessing
II there were some person who could give the
families points on the subject
CHILDREN THE GREATEST DIFFICULTY,
Perhaps the greatest of all difficulties is the
one previously alluded to. ie., the children.
People who are blessed with several growing
children 6nd the doors of many desirable
boarding houses and hotels closed TO them.
What are they going to do about IL? They can't
| send the young folks to one hotel and 90 to
another themselves. They can't drown them.
as the wicked husband suggested They can {
leave them at home. The truth Of the matter
u they would not 60 away at all, in many cases,
II it were not on the childrens account. The
consequence is that they go where they can.
| and not where they would choose to 60
The philosophy Of excluding the children ia
not understood by fathers and mothers but
people who are so unfortunate as to have no
little folks In their households can get along
without other peoples children about them al
summer resorts. Very few Young men are
thinking of ''going on leave" yet. Washington
Is good enough for them at this season. as in
deed, 1t Is good enough for anybody Of taste;
but when they do 60 away they would do well
to look out for the little pitchers that have
hear.
THE MAN OF THE HOUSE.
About the going away time what miserable
superfiuity in the family arrangements the man
OF the house appears to be-. The place il
chosen without regard to him. He is to stav
In town all summer, to be bullied by one old
servant, who will be left with him, to picnic
by himself as best he is able in a house where
everything has been put away; to be constantly
hidden to buy and send by mail into the
country feminine articles of apparel. or course
he makes terrible biunders. Did auy man
eve- know q woman who could buy a
man cravaf 1t is utterly ineomprehensible
| to most OF the gentler Sex that their husbands
| and brothers should give a dollar for a crayat.
when they are SO little different from the crayafs
| that are already tied which sell for a Quarter
Yet the women wLoar in the country get cross
because the man in the city makes mistakes In
buying ruffiing and crinoline.
Nevertheless, ladies, when Won do 90 awav
this summer You may reflect that the men Vol,
leave behind you sometimes console themselyes
II Is pretty disagreeable, toiling away all day
that You may enjoy yourselves, OF think Won
are enjoying yourselves, for. as a matter of
fact, you would be Ear better of if you STAYED
at home, but there are mitigations to the
disagreeableness. We who are men can stay ont
late o nights, If we choose. Who is to know
Who is to scold us? Why should we come home
at allI Then there are little bachelor dinners
down town-not bad at all, and far better thar
the crowded hotel or boarding house dinin0
room. where the old women are talking eossi9
all the time and where everybody Ia irving IL
pretend that she lives in the most princeiv
style at home.
SUMNER CARD PLAYING
Some men play cards in summer. and
whether the game is whist or hearts or poker
you who are away can never know. This card
playing is better than yours, for who does not
know that awful parlor of the summer resort