Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-05
ASASUMMER RESORT.
PROFESSOR COMES TO EDITORS RE-
LIEF IN REGARD TO OUR CITY,
Ana m.kcs Some Timely Suggestions TOE
the Benefit OF the st"y-nf-ho"e'
and the Can't-Get-Awsys'

To he Editor Of The Dispatch
You have been deferred, you said, from
writing up Richmond rs summer resort
nv the temperature of the few sweiter'hg
davs we have had. Did you in this sho"
either YOUR accustomed bravery or WIS.,
dom? When you were soldier you man.
fully stood up to hotter work than 'nat
from which you shrank-yes. hotter "orA
on warmer days!
Let holder pen but not better Us
sume the task which you decline. Tue
more the thermometer jumps ana thuIlps
the more obligatory it Is to stand by your
| Gums in defence of your city and her SUM-
mer advantages. Why il that heat;regisoer
.'cuts such capers Yin this favored CITY, Is
! il not doing worse IN other places anu III
many. If not most, of those to which our
| runaways reSortI
For the greater part people do not 60
away from home at this season Tor COM
fort or even fer health, but for laoorlous
ard expensive pleasure for fashion, pres
tigo. upper-ten habit and example.
Even though We may not be able TO vin-
dictate Richmond rs place OF summer re-
sort, we may hope to reconcile to their lot
some of the stay at-hones and can t-get-
aUays If one cannot get away. OF course
q
two classes above are not precisely the
same Some remain from choice who could
afford to 90: Others who are tempteh
strongly to do what they cannot well AFFORD
make wise and prudential decision. not TO
venture away. Perhaps too many do not
come to this wise determination, but yleld
TO pride and fashion and incur expenses
which embarrass them for whole year.
Verify, summer resortlng has ruined us
/ thousands af ambitions yOtarieS,
But the can't-get-aways are an over
yhelming majority of every urban popula-
ton. Is it not n great blessing that they
can have substitutes and compensatlons
right at their elbows and under their
| nosesl
of course the absentees have to give up
attention TO their home affairs. except ty
correspondence or occasional returns.
Some who place their families where they
can be reached by grass-widower trans on
| SATURDAYS have to take some time from
| business and are tempted to linger with
| their loved ones. Now. suppose those VINO
cannot get away at all were wiling 10 use
only small part of their time they could
| find here both comfort and recreation.
| For example suppose on hot afternoon
some one engaged in business-lawyer,
doctor, merchant, or minlster-were per.
spring III his Office of study; from habit
| he might take up his fan and try 70
! wait until his usual hour for shutting up
and going home. Let him. instead, take
an electric. car and 60 out TO one of our re-
| freshing parks. The ride itself will be q
pleasure, with a still greater one AT It's END.
| One day he might select this side OF the
river; another, Forest Hill Park and other
places beyond Manchester. Let him make
an engagement with his family, If he. be
blessed with one. 10 meet him at the place
| chosen for that day, and they or he can
! carry along some wholesome SOLID ana
| LIQUID refreshments. and thus at very lit
| tie expense they can have nice family pic.
| mic. really more ENJOYABLE than some OF
| the ostentatious entertainments OF the
! fashionable watering places. IL he reside
/ on Church Hill and should be at the New
reservoir, one car-fare each would take the
whole party home. and. rice Uersd, II from
! Shockoe Hill he had selected Libby Hill or
| ChimborazO for his afternoons enjoyment.
| But such men of business need not wait tor
| the afternoons. Why not take part OF their
| forenoon by prearranging matters Tor that
purpose? Then they will have IN addition
to the parks the Capitol Square and that
| detachable all-the-year-round resort the
| State Library. In the winter you can
| draw up, book in hand. to its comfortable
| fires and from time 10 time enjoy the views
| from its windows, or scan afresh Its attrac-
| tive hanrings In the summer yOu can SIT
| by its windows, shaded by Its classic por-
! tico. and drink in inspiration and delight
! from exterior lovelness, or from the
printed pages which the refreshing breezes
viii seek 10 turn over before you are
ready. Thus what q summer recourse and
resource, at least, Richmond may be made
! by her busy children ut very small ex-
! penditure If they will only Systematically
! employ q part of that time which those
who go away have TO give up altogether.
A very large. worthy, and valuable part
| of our citizens remain to be thought Or
mechanics and laborers. ] know they are
generally tired and weary, but just suppose
| that all the money they spend IN whlskey,
| iced beer, or even in cool mountaineering
| beverages, were spent in cer-fare for them
| selves and families to the parks or IN trult
| and fresh vegetables. what world OF re.
! creation and recuperation hundreds OF
| them would enjoy of which they now de-
prive themselves and others. They do not
retire TO rest so early but that numbers OF
/ them could seek cooler and more comfort
| able localities than those IN which they
| now linger-merely enduring whilst they
might be comparatively recuperating and
reinvigorating themselves for their tread
mills Of the morrow.
BE holder. dear Editor! Come TO the
rescue of these and all other sufferers and
| let not the thermometer, however it may
| climb, stay your sturdy and helpful pen:
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