Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-13

| er one exclaimed.
| Come along" they
said in chorus, lets
go home and compare notes about the sum-
mer. / have just had lovely time and
| they went their way. both talking at the
| ton that It was evident one visit would
| never suffice to exhaust 1t all
| 1t would be interesting to know what
| the details If lovely time are from a
young girls point of view, but II is quite
| certain to involve a good deal of company,
some agreeable men and perhaps a frta-
| ton. III there has been an engagement Il
would not be spoken OF so lightly. The en-
gagged girl would probably be strangely
quiet, but such a look of patronizing SUI
periority would beam from her eyes that
| there would be small chance of ner con-
| cealing what had happened from other
| girls. OF course, she could conceal ii from
men as long as she chose. for they are
VIGOROUSLY as blind as bats in all matters
| of this kind.
These girls will probably talk about their
summer experiences until the end of DC
| tober. Then the topic will be about the
coming winter season. The girls who are
already at home lie I'm wait for the others
and salute them as they arrive with a
| voiley or questions. In this way the girls
in certain set know all about each other.
and If you go and see one OF them you can
get the news about all the others.
Men md Their Vacations.
1t is somewhat different with men. They
say few words about the summer and
then let it go. For one thing they have not
enjoyed long vacations a rule and they
do not care particularly about discussing
happenings in the city, for they are all
| familiar with them. For another thing they
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really afford on their vacation and the
subject may be little sore to them
that account.
How dye do, old man; been in town all
summer
Thus one swell addressed another whom
he met on the street few days ago
Yes. have" was the reply, but how
on earth did you know it?'
"Oh. you have the unmistakable air of
one who hasn't been away said the first
speaker
1t is really difficult 10 define what the I'M
mistakabie air is, Yet it undoubtedly ex-
lists.
Thus the stay-at-home man, when he
welks the street, does not look about him
as much as the man who has just come
back He Is not In search of friends whom
| he may greet and he does not keep his
eyes on the buildings to see what improve
ments have been made. He knows all about
| that His countenance too, wears a me d.
erately serene expression. in marked con-
trast with the gloom and worry which are
depicted upon the face OF the man who has
just returned from his vacation. The latter
has been having a jolly. loafing time, and
returns to the city and to work in anything
but a spirit of content. He finds his desk
piled high with mail. A part of his Is
work which should have been done long be-
fore, and his private letters have the mo-
notonous ending Please remit at the lot
tom of the page.
Some Sad Reflections.
He reflects sarcastically that ne would
like very much to remit IL he had anything
to do II with. He has spent all his money.
1t went for boats and horses and hotel
bills. He spent a great deal upon that
beautiful girl he met. AS he settles down
to his city life ne wonders whether he will
ever see her again, and whether ne really
made a wise investment
Did he get any adequate return? He
hardly knows yet. Perhaps before the
winter is over he will her again, and
then again, and something may come OF the
hours md days he spent in her society at
the summer resort Or perhaps her image
will remain in his mind for a week or so
and then quietly fade away. Next summer
he will be ready for another summer girl
and 80 the summers will pass. until finally
he becomes crusty with age or perhaps gets
married.
But the person who comes back to town
with the greatest airs of all is the man who
has spent the summer in Europe. He has
changed. 1t seems to be a rule Of almost
universal appHcatlOn mat the man who
goes to Europe should come home somewhat
different from what he was when he left
1t may be that his accent, like his mind
has broadened, and that he has acquired
various new words with which TO express
his meaning. He now takes a ''barth'' in
stead of a bath, and keeps "dorgs" instead
of dogs. He wears ''top-coats" and packs
his boxes" and complains 10 the guards
that he cannot find his luggage" He
wears boots instead of shoes uses the
lift instead of the elevator. and calls a
clerk a clark" 1t may be that travel has
| not changed his speech. but his habits. He
may abhor ice, and refuse to take a hearty
breakfast in the morning.
His Clothes From London.
A change also usually manifests itself in
his clothes. II he has any money he buys
quaint of them. and especially is this
true il he has been to London. The writer
met one of these men recently and talked
with him.
Been to London. you say, and what did
you get there?
"Clotnes" replied the youth He NAV
have seen Westminster Abbey and st
Paul's, but he has brought home no recol-
lection of tnem. He only remembers the
visits to the tailor.
What tailor did you patronize?" you ask
him.
Bond. on Regent street, the Prince OF
Wales tailor" he says.
Really? And he is the tailor to the
prince? How do you know
His sign says so. and he has official
appointment signed by the princes sec
rotary, hung up in his shop
Poor youth! There is no use in talking 10
him. Nearly every tailor I'm fashionable
LoLdop tas one OF these appointments
They are regularly sold, just as licenses are
Not a dozen of these tailors make gar
ments for the royal family. To find tailor
on Regent street who has not got the lion
and unicorn above the door of his shop
would be rather a difficult task The signs
are bait with which fish of the sucker fam
lily are caught.
IL you continue to converse with the
''chappie" who spent the summer in Eng
land You will find that he has by a
strange perversity. bought many things in
London which are known TO Intelligent men
to cost less and to be Of superior quality in
this country, and he may even in his in
fatuation bring home several pairs OF those
leather skiffs which Englishmen put upon
their feet and call shoes. II somebody tell;
him English shoes are better than Ameri
can he will believe II. and pay attention
to the evidences of his own senses. which
point the other way. You see, he takes
everything on trust. and. with the strange
perversity which characterizes many feeble
minds. he always believes the man who
tells hira wrong. II one man gives him a
correct opinion he will. perhaps accept it.
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