The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-07
SUMNER RANBLINGS.
Bah on The Season When Nature Holds
High Carnival.

| Where Will You SummerP - Move
ments of Miss Aristocrat, Mile.
Newly-Rich, Mrs. Matron and Mr..
Bank Clerk Picnicy School Boy-De-
lights of Country Life-The Ever
lasting Chicken, Fashionable Re
sorts and Farm House Peculiari-
I ties-our Summer Belongings-The
Good Time Coming.
(Copyrieht)
New York, May 81 Everybody is ask
ing the same old question; Where are
you going for the summer Mile
Newly-Rich looks at you with the air of
! blank amazement which she learned in
London last summer, puts up her monocle
and calmly assures you that, as usual,
they will spend ''the season in London,
come back in July to Newport, stay there
until October, when they will go to
Lenox, and after that to Tuxedo reach
ing New York just at Christmas. Miss
Aristocrat smiles at you and assures you
that they always stayal summer at their
own place, where they have such a jolly
time, and where they don't bother
much about dressing, but just
go in for rowing and riding and
driving and tennis, and possibly a
little, but a very little, proper love
making. Miss Parvenu, counting off
thirty-twO trunks, tells you she will go
first to Long Branch, and then to SaratO-
ga, and that she will never wear the same
gown twice; you look at the size of her
waist, and o, how you pity her maid!
You are quite certain that there is a reg
ular measurement, possibly 10 inches and
that the gowns have got to be hooked over
that. Miss Parvenu is fuss and feathers.
She doesn't like the sun because it burns
her She doesn't like the water because
it upsets her. She doesn't like to ride be-
cause IL jolts her. All that she likes to
do is to take some perfectly easy position
IN which parasol, hat, gown and shoes
will show at their best
oUT-oF-TowN RECREATION.
You ask Mrs Matron, with a little
brood of five small matrOns, and, being
wise, she is going some place where the
children can wear cotton frocks, and play
out in the open air all day; and where
she, being certain of their happiness and
health, can absolutely have rest. Young
Mr.. Bank Clerk, who wears an immacu-
late shirt, and looks like a fashion plate
Is going to throw all starch belongings to
the dogs, put himself in a flannel get-up,
and HE to the mountains, where he can
fish and shoot and row, and absolutely be
child of nature.
The incest fellows to talk on the sub
ject of the summer time are the school
boys; they are going where they can
swim, where they can help about the
farm and where they can get up such
magnificent appetitCs that they can eat
anything. They will work as they never
worked in their lives. And they will do
it all for nothing If it were work for
which they werc being paid they would
not take a particle of interest; butas they
are doing it for their own sweet WILL they
delight in it.
Funny, isn't it, how little one learns
from experienced Last year or year be
fore, or some time, my esta blishment
trotted off to a country place to get an
absolute change. After travelling all day
we got there about Z o'clock, tired dirty
and hungry The house was charming,
and we were told by an OvercOurteOus
hostess that they had waited tea for us.
This sounded so lovely that, in the seclu-
sion of our rooms we Rugged each other,
and after we had shed the first dirt, be-
cause we were dirty in regular layers, we
went in to eat. The supper consisted of
cold bread, preserved raspberries, iced
tea and smoked beef. IneVer insult my
stomach by putting anything iced into it.
L
bread, and l despise preserves, so ! very
soon left the table. Then l had a consul
tatiOn with this generous landlady and of
fered to pay her more, provided had q
hot supper. Well, | got it. That is to
say, chickens sold for II cents apiece in
the village and
HAD FRIED CHICKEN EVERY NIGHT
for one solid month. My own mother said
she saw the feathers growing out of me-
We We're always hungry, every one of US,
and yet we had a good time We used to
so skirmishing around the village to buy
things, and for anybody to find anything
that wasn't chicken, either in an embryo
or fully developed state, was such a
pleasure that he was made the hero of
the hour. Once there was a bull, or per
haps it would be kinder for me to say a
cow, killed in the village, and we had d
beefsteak. 1t was cooked until it was the
color of sealskin coat inside and out, and
it was garnished heavily with a thick
gravy, in which flour and eggs played a
pronounced part. never saw beefsJeak
like it. Really, it was worth going away
| from home to see that; and we all
! laughed so much that it was as good as if
| II had been the proper kind. / think YOU
can find pretty good things in most places
| If you take the trouble. We could get
cream for 10 cents a quart, and | had a
y l
| servants in town by paying a maid 81 a
week whom the rest of them had only
been getting 81. But she was such a
! lOvel
had the rheumatism at the time, and
| the doctor, not knowing my constitution,
had to change my medicine very often {;
! but Evalina would take any medicine that
! was left. What's good fOah little missy,
! Use suah is good for Evalina." BY every
! law of medicine she ought to have died,
! but she didn't. She got fat on it, And
| when we came away, among her inherit
ances were about two dozen bottles of
| medicine that she took with great glee,
{ announcing at the time: George and
me will have a mighty good time this
| winter, we won't bother with no doctor
whenever we uns has got a misery,
we uns will take some o little missy's
medicine" Evidently Evalina 5 stomach
has become hardened, for l heard of her
only lately, and the news was that she
and George were fat and mighty
hearty
CONVENIENT Is GAIN.
As we had little to eat that summer we
! ought to have been dreadfuliy unhappy.
| but with the beautiful sunshine, the
/ James river, plenty of flowers, and the
/ greatest number Of amiable darkies YOU
| ever came across in your life, we weren't.
| So, after all, we had a good time. A