Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-28

Where is he going?
Oh, to "a resort" He does not intend to
SPEND his time in the dull quiet of a
country place. What he wants is one of
those delightful places where there is a
ball every night. What else will he do be-
sides go to the ball? Why, he will wait
for meals. Boiled down, that is practically
all that is left Of the life at most summer
resorts. The day has its three events
breakfast, lunch and dinner, or breakfast,
dinner and supper. Beyond that 1t is bar
rem Of results. After breakfast there is
dinner or lunch to wait for; after lunch or
dinner there is supper or dinner to wait
for. II the resort is near a city, so that
men may come there in the evening. the
last meal Of the day is dinner, but IL it
is too far in the country for that then
dinner is eaten at o'clock in the day.
The Average "Resort" Quarters.
Hawkins will have a vacation of three
weeks. He will pay three times as much
as it costs him in town for a room hardly
large enough to hold his trunk, the furni-
ture Of which will consist of a very small
pitcher and basin, two towels no larger
than a pocket handkerchief, one chair too
frail to do more than hold his clothes at
night, a bureau, the drawers OF which VIII
not open, or, being opened, VIII not smut,
and a small bedstead with knobby mat
tress on il. For one of the three weeks
he will wander disconsolately about KNOW
ing no one and convinced in the bottom OF
his heart that he is having wretched time;
the second week he will have few dances
in the evening, and the third week he will
know a good many people and nave a
tolerably jolly time of II. When he gets
back to the city, he will forget all about
the first two weeks and look back with
much pleasure to the last week. What is
the real sense in passing vacation like
that? Well, there is no sense in IL, but he
fancies he enjoys 1t
At the Springs.
At the same time that young Hawkins is
making his preparations to go away old
Smith is anxiously scanning the advertise
ments and looking for a place where he
can spend a month of retirement for his
health. His doctor has recommended ii,
giving, however, no definite instructions as
to where to go, SO Smith thinks, very rea-
sonably, that ii is best for him to go 10
some springs. Now, there are springs and
springs. Some are good for the blood, some
are good for rheuma tism and good many
of them are not good for anything. But
this makes no difference to a man like
Smith, who may be troubled in reality
with bronchitis and take a cure intended
for govt. He comes back declaring he is
vastly better, which simply illustrates the
fact that there is something in the mind
cure theory. At the springs he finds good
many people who are being cured of moth
ing at all. Like Mr.. Pickwick at Bath
they drink the waters and after each glass
declare themselves vastly better. although
nobody had an idea that there was ever
anything the matter with them before.
Mamma and the Children Go.
There is very interesting phase of vaca-
items in that of the average family of mod
crate means. When the hot weather comes
mamma packs up, and away she goes with
the children to spend the summer at some
place not over-expensive, and good for the
health. She doesn't want TO CO. She re-
grets leaving the comfortable home she has
for the prccarious existence of the hotel or
boarding house. But she feels that she
must go an account of the children. They
are, of course, wild to go, and so she takes
them There is another regret deep in her
heart, and that is that she must leave papa
a-one In the dreary city. He cannot go with
her, of course His business or profession
al pursuits require his attention constantly
He may get away for a couple of weeks
later in the season. Still he advises her to
gc-on the children's account And all sum-
mer long the mother and children keep be-
moaning the unhappy lot of poor papa in
the city. AS the mother sits on the piazza
of the hotel, she and the other mothers talk
about II, and you may be sure that papa,
when he does come up on his short vaca-
piness of his life in the city.
Pnpa's Lonely Time.
Let u2 see how he spends his time. He
is at work all day. He may have an cleo
trio fan in his Office to cool him. At any
rate, he is SO preoccupied with his work
that the day passes quickly and he hardly
realizes that the weather is warm. In the
evening that solitude his wife commiserates
Is not exactly TO be discovered. He dimes at
the club, perhaps, or he takes a friend or
two and goes on to some cool resort in the
suburbs for dinner He kills the evening
very pleasantly and goes home and to bed
hkfn m ghf
home, he usually carries some one with MIN
to dinner, and afterward, perhaps, there is
a quiet game OF cards. OF course, he re-
grets the absence of the wife and Young
ones. but since they must go, why, he is not
going to NOPE in their absence.
Reversed the Usual Order.
The story is told Of an old gentleman of
eccentric habits who used to spend his
winters at a fine country place he had ana
his summers in the city of New York. lie
had an ingenious theory by which he SUD-
ported his custom. He said there was
nothing to do in town in winter, SO he
hybernated in the country, where nobody
attempted to do anything. In summer
there was plenty going on. His idea of
comfort was quiet, cool place TO sit in
during the daytime and a place where he
could go and see something in the evening
The theaters are open all winter Why did
he not go to them, then? Well, every man
TO his taste. He preferred them in summer
because '.ere was less pomp and ceremony
about them then. AS for balls, dinner par
ties and things of that kind, let young
people and few old ones who pretend TO
be young enjoy them If they can. He had
passed the age for such things.
Not Altogether Miserable.
There is always a certain amount of
reason back of actions of this kind. which
at first sight appear to be wholly ridiculous.
but it can hardly be recommended that any
one should spend his midsummer vacation
in the broiling city of New York, for, be-
tween the two, Washington is the more
comfortable summer city.
There are two classes of people who spend
their summers in tovn-those who can't
go away, and those who don't want to-and
there are always a good many of the latter
class who get forced into leaving their