Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-16


get everything in the world, including husbands
for their daughters. for the same they pay for
board; but people who go to the cheap resorts
grumble because they don't get ANYTHING nj all
in return for IS week. The fashionable sum-
mer boarding house in winter remains a house.
but the cheap boarding house. stripped Of its
furniture, becomes a shed, hardly affording re-
spectacle protection from wind and weather 20
cows or sheep. A fashionable boarding house
OF saw thirty rooms costs in construction ahout
$4,000, but cheap boarding house costs about
$500 Insurance companies insure the struc-
lures, and after awhile they burn down-usually
In winter when thsre is nobody around The
people who frequent fashionable boarding
houses are usually those who see very little COM
pany In their own homes in the CITY and wish 20
enjoy a little gayety in the summer months.
They dress a great dead. and any one who sees
them at breakfast wonders how thew can dress
more deliberately. until he secs them appear at
dinner. Their costumes are hardly less on the
latter occasion than ball dresses
WOMEN IN THE MAJORITY
1t will be observed that these summer board
ers are spoken of as being in the feminine
gender, and this is because women are so much
the rule that the occasional man who is found
among them Is as rare as the white blackbird
The wives, mothers. daughters and sisters are
there. but the husbands. fathers. sons and
brothers are seIzed with violent attacks Of bust
ness. which keep them in town. except occa-
sionaily on Sundays, when they come down and
pretend thev are sorry that they can't stav all
the time. While Nimodaughsis is at the sum-
mer boarding house are the men at the club do
you suppose? Not much. What's the use Of
the club when the women have abandoned the
house! The men congregGte at one another's
houses, and in the cool OF the evening shey-whv
they just cit there, you understand? PLAY
nr.lG NJ nlAa : Il
except. perhaps, when they indulge in whist
with the old maids when they 60 for fying
visit 10 the relatives at the summer boarding
house. Drink punch? Under no considera-
ton. Sometimes they do make a pitcher Of
Lemonade and if, perhaps. they leave the sugar
out ana pat a little whisky in its place the bev-
erage can still be termed q lemonade just as
well as a ''rickey.'
THE ONE MAN Is IN CLOVER.
Now, while men at summer boarding houses
are as rare as white blackbirds, there are,
nevertheless, some of them to be found. Just
as there is apt to be one white blackbird in a
large flock, so is there generally one man at a
big summer boarding house. Sometimes he is
! a superannuated man, whose duties in life have
come to an end among men and who simply
| goes where the women of his household choose
to take him. This man finds his usefulness in
the evening at the card table. In the daytime
he sits on the piazza and reads the newspapers
and talks to anybody who will listen TO him.
he seems to realize his position and is not apt
| to assert himself. You cannot help feeling
sorry for him and he feels sorry for himself,
for be would like to be little more active and
to have an Office in the city, where he could go
| every day and pretend TO have something to oc-
| cupy his time Another kind of man at the
summer boarding house is the young man who
has gone there on his vacation, not because he
likes the place, but because he has n vacation
Il 90 hsar al1lfa L. a
| fellow changes his clothes several times n dav
ai'o sAiAs 70 the girls. ne Is the victim OF hero
s,on - hin, Ua - eou peuion 70 ge, posses
six fair maiSs5s and noas Sh io.o"ea oy
or two. II he is sitting ON the
piazza he soon finds himself surrounded
by an admiring audience. who laugh at his
jokes listen with appauding glances to his words
OF wisdom and datter him in every conceivable
way. IL he gets up and SAYS "Who will take
walk with mef" a dozen women stand up and
gay Il viii" And you can bet on il that they
do. He is safe, this young man, if there is any
truth in the saying that there is safety in num-
bers. III he pays more attention to one girl
than he does to another it will be said that be
il engaged, for the people who live in the sum-
mer boarding house are prone TO gossip. Cos
sip! Why it is the only thing they have to do.
tend to and hundred occupations each dsy. but
in the country thew have no concerns of their
own to busy themselves with. so thew very
kindly busy themselves with the things that
concern them not. If a real, bona fide engage
ment is contracted at the boarding house what
a futter and cackling takes place among the
inmates. 1nose maternal fowls that have young
,,t,a iU III, tne ,1,n are arposed 70 De
curing a GOOD nriza md thosa thet ar -
longer spring chiokens-haying long since
passed the broiling age and even got so far that
they may prove tough unless fricasseed-are the
seyerest Of all
THE THREE occrp,-roxs
The o..rr.,ions :, s,,,...~- -.
az summer poaroing mouse
may De summed up as being three, eating,
sleeping and talking. To the first named there
.re limitations. and especialIy among the cbe.n
boarding houses the limitations are harrow i'm
deed. But, neyertbeless. the great event. %
each day are brenkfast dinner and snnner A.
nobody has ANYTHING 10 do excent tiii din. -
is always thought to be necessarv 10 fnrn;sh
everybody with plenty Of time Ia lin and Co..
seouently breakfast Is served hr;eht and s.,iv
in the morning. At the exnensiye ho.rd;n.
houses the meal consists OF fruit' sent nm ie
crates from the CITY. milk. sent mn in cans frorn
the CITY eers. sent nm In bsrrels fro,n a. ,;s,
butter sent M in tubs from the city and ~ ~,
The result is a toierably good rensstN.bout
one-third dearer and two-sbirds nporer Than
you can get in the city. The cheap boardin1
houses, on the other hand subs;.t mon ~
country-vherein thew have The sdv.ntsoe ovsr
the boerders who and II difiicult IN subs;st a