The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-01
AWAY DOWN EAST.
A NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE AS A
SUMMER RESORT
UNAVOIDABLE STOP AT CHICAGO
MADE EASY-A KANSAS GIRLS
IMPRESSIONS OF NEW
ENGLAND PEOPLE
AND THINGS.

The Westerner who goes East for
the summers vacation is almost COM
PEELED to stop at the Fair unless be
would make himself conspicuous as a
hopeless eccentric, If the Westerner
is a woman and tired, she will feel in
clined to stop her ears as she nears
Chicago and take the first train out to
the quiet New England village where
her real rest is to begin. Chicago is
the Mecca of the energetic sight-seer;
not of the lazy rest-seeker. However,
if she makes up her mind to see only
a little of the Fair and enjoy that, and
is not set on getting the advertised
"liberal education" in ten days, she
may visit Chicago and yet be happy
and good natured. 1 know some
Kansas girls who did it. OF course
they will be subjected for the next
five years to the persecution of the
Fair fiend, who will have the whole
exposition learned and conned by rote
to cast into the teeth of such unc0n-
scientious tourists, but the soothing
recollection of the fact that they didn't
get tired and cross ought to help them
to sustain even this trial. Moreover,
if one mas foresight, she can hunt up
some little out-ofthe-way exhibit TO
hurl at the head of her prosecutor as
the one thing which ought not to have
been missed. My solemn advice to
the tired woman is: Leave your sight
seeing conscience at home along with
your trains, your children and your
trinkets. Don't feel obliged to see it
all. Don't want to. You can't; and
as a Kansas philosopher remarked
once, "the best way to have what
you want, is not to want what you
can't have" What will it profit you
if you see everything in the Liberal
Arts Building and lose your temper?
If you take your conscience and
your note book along, and join the
procession Of the jaded and footsore,
determined to do the Fair or perish in
the attempt l am sorry for you. 1
was deeply impressed with the i'm
mense seriousness of these alleged
pleasure seekers. The average Amer
lean sees the Fair with the same grim
determination with which our Puri-
tan ancestors cleared the forest. He
lays out program many build
ings,-so many art collections for each
day,-and drags himself and weary
wife up one long aisle and down an
other, trying with tagged senses to
appreciate things.
The Kansas girls, of whom spoke,
were not animated by this stern sense
of duty, and got along most comforta-
bly,. If they learned anything. it was
by unconscious and pleasurable alb
sorption and not with malice pre-
pense. They saw what interested
them, and didn't worry about the
rest. They avoided Machinery Hall
lest the labor of looking Intelligent
and thinking of something to say 10
the explanations of their man friend
should be too wearing. They patron
lied VanHouten's cocoa house. when
ever they got within easy reach of it.
There, one is served with fine cup
of cocoa and two waters, by Dutch
costumed waiting girls in an old-fash-
Toned blue tiled Dutch house, with
blue Lake Michigan to look at just
out-side,-all for five cents. 1t is a
fine place for between-meals Lunch.
Prof. Frank Marvin of Kansas Uni
versity, took the Kansas girls to the
Art Gallery occasionally. He knows
about those things, is entertaining
and not too technical, and keeps one
from admiring the wrong pictures. 1t
is great saving of energy not TO have
to exercise ones own Judgment. Then
too, when Mr.. Marvin enters an art
room, he sits down and gets all there
is out of the pictures before him. If
the crowd comes between him and
his picture he enjoys the crowd. This
is very restful way of studying art.
Prof Dyche, who is bringing Kan
sas about all the credit she gets at the
Fair by his fine collection of mounted