New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-04

grinding disappointments' anu 'i'e'
Hoei life is bound to be vulgar; whether
Won Get small hostelry in the backwooo os
finest hotel that ever So,e was life eu crop up
With equal violence in both. The people tha'
patronize large summer hotels are, as cl .Ss,
interiors and give ossoe afF0r WITTY 0 aHd plenty
~ ids time TO employ as they please and you
will have as purely vulgar phase OF Ahleri eS.
hotel life is even more vulgar than that OF other
places by reason of the fasity of the people, who
patronzc the hotels There Are Isrs sne fats en' and
East Side table d'hotes. There are the great
quantities of the new, rich who refuse 70 s. De
new rich. There are the sham swelis IRON
New-York, Brooklyn and Chicago. These people,
IN " rcined or Guiet environment. would be sub
dued in tone. But the hotel atmosphere OF 'nn i
Pier is neither refined nor quiet. IL develops al
that is vulgar and brushes all that Is eeV"'e' anu
OBSERVATION and display become the aims OF
life Pleasure converts itself into deter,
mined cndeavor to be first in dress mrs, III III
style. and first in money. The peaceful rest Oh
tie summer holiday gives place to the iurtiNe
struggle for prominence ana 'he ag'c study
inc the Casino and hotel life of the Per-, might
readily find us guilty Of that unrehcvea COIL
monncs, that vulgar Philistinism, OF when the
itinerant English are fond OF accusing us.
The letter side of American watering-piace
life is crowded back and out Of sight ny ine
e5 Ss c %tS its moHs its s
IFS push. it's determined manner OF shouldcrlng
its way to the front, its lack OF dellcacy an,
iirmncss, its supcrabundancc OF swagYer ana
''' But good,by TO it all, good or bad, for
another year. Good-by, summer! The winds
come up cold and damp from the sea, ana sweep
the heatcn beach clear of butterfly and clgale.
On the melancholy dunes, with their dry grass
hair bent before the breeze, no more white
parasols bloom like big mushrooms, no more
couples sit happily spooning by the sounding
soa The waves thunder sadly on sandy
sweep from which the Baltimore beauty and the
bonanza queen have passed like shadows from
frosts and snow and hail must howl Itself
angry before the little white feet OF western
opnlcnce and Southern lovelinesS leave their
prli1s upon the sand again, whole winter OF
sleety Novembers, Of snow-bound Decemoers' Oh
frost-bi.ten Januaries, must be gathered 10 te
past before the ladies' with histories once more
mako ND their faces before cracked hotel
mirrors. or drink vcrmouth cocktails in the
cnri- papcred. corsetless sccluson of sx-by-ei2it
hotel bedrooms -. vu
And YOU. sweet summer girl, good.by four
beauX iours are passed for year! Your lovely
toilets, all soed and bedragged, are lalh away
in your trunks, but your, eyes are even brighter
and your checks are colorcd soft IA brown
az a well-smoked meershaum pipe. You have
vanished from cliff walk and Casino from hotel
balcony and bathing beach. Your figure. in IT'S
small -waisted, fcct-footed grace, no longer de-
lights the gazer as IL floats Ike the wavcring
smoke wreaths over the bathrooms polished hoor
Nou no longer thing to dream over ana
wonder Mt as you SIT IN inc tower IN your CIIsP
white frock and your curly-brimmcd white nat.
and drink sherry -cobblcrs with Young men WHO
look ms though they would be more appropriately
employed If they drank soluble milN-food out
Of an Alexandra bottle. We no longer see you
stepping gingcry into the surf, lifting each foot
with a little shiyering shrek, hugging your
arms. raising your shoulders 70 your pretty
cans. and always laughing fcarsomely as the
curly-hcadcd waves clasp You so coldly round
your neat little waist Goodbye or stay
let us say au rcvoir !-auf wciderschen, hista
mananal We cannot bring ourselves to say
good-by TO you!