The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-13

lore was the dory of the fishermen.
,me OF the male children left and went
, the towns to work in stores and
jbver went back, some OF
Jhe female children went away
1isiting city folks and got married, and
<hey never went back. But great many
stayed at home to do the chores and stick
TO the state OF nature. Funerals were few
and far between, and births were
frequent, 80 six years ago
when a city man named Arbuthnot,
looking for good cunning, stumbled
on the place he found quite an array OF
shanties filled with hospitable people all
anxious for the excitement of entertaining
the stranger. The cunning and the fsh-
ing was all that Arbuthnot desired and
30 was everything about the place without
a name SO he went again next year,
only he didn't go alone. Half a
dozen other fellows who happened
10 have their vacations at the same time
decided to 60 along with him, and that
settled the fate OF the place. These men
had wives in Providence, and along in the
middle OF the summer they sent for them
TO come down and grow healthy fora week.
The city women came as directed, and
with female inconsistency carried several
changes OF dress with them and one shanty
had to be vacated TO make room for the
trunks, but the natives did not mind.
They liked the new features and had al
ready begun to name their babies after
Arbuthnot and his friends.
The city ladies made things In the way
OF cake That the +pfucet propfc had never
dreamed of. They talked about the fora OF
the place ana told natives that had lived
there for years about the wild flowers and
their botanical names. IL occurred to one
enthusiastic woman that such delightful
spot should have name and suggested
Arbuthnot which everyone took up, much
to the amusement of the older fishermen
who adopted themselves to the latest
innovation with as much ease as they
had learned TO smoke the ten centers
that "them city fellers" fetched down
with them. And that arrested
development for that year as the party
left for home after expressing much soffc-
itude for the natives who had TO stay at
Arbuthnot in the winter.
The next summer they all went back and
had induced half a dozen more families to
go with them and Arbuthnot (every
one had got TO calling 1t that was flooded
with duck trousers, negligee shirts ana
tennis outfits, and the place had out
gtown its buildings so that some of the
newer arrivals built cottages with parlors
I'm them and painted and clapboarded
aides, and business was brisk
enough for carpenter to
settle there with his family. The car
pehter's wife was shrewd helpmate and
as the natives said was looking out for
the main chance, so she had lot OF tin
boxes with cookies and animal crackers
sent down, with lot of spool cotton,
pins and needles, bunch of
of summer novels and Arbuthnot had its
first store. That later on butt an addition
and counter, took in a pair of scales
and groceries, shoes, ,sheeting and calicoes,
for the summer girls had aroused the
spark OF vanity among the all-the- year
round-girls who kept on buying
right through the winter and one
of the native children, not strong enough
for chore work, got place as the carpen-
fer's wife's clerk and the husband kept ON
building cottages.
Bnrfng the next winter eHe- -ef tAe eEiei-
nal party OF strangers lost his money in
the city and couldn't afford to loaf ali
summer even in such frugal place as
Arbuthnot, but he wanted To go back
and someone suggested boarding house
and advertisements in ali the town papers
under the head OF summer resorts, SO In
the summer OF tho third year after its dis
covery the place got into print. Dozens
of people went to see what IL was
Like and the boarding house was such q