St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
If1E C(0N1INC SUMMER: HOW EN5oY 4

hes those various longingS of our
nature to which recreation of some
sort is the proper vent, the answer
would still be the same.
Yachting is at once aristocratic
and democratic, the favorite diver
sion of royalty and millionaires, and
yet not beyond the reach of the
modest clerks whose yearly salary
would not last his royal highness
through one game of baccarat. A
sailor is a sailor all the world over.
And the feelings that animate the
Prince of Wales on the deck of his
EBritannia, as he watches the Ameri-
can Vigilant slowly fall astern, are
much the same as those which find
place in the bosom of the skipper on
White Bear as he plows along in
his frolicsome catboat at the head
of the fleet, with the White Bear
cup almost within his grasp. Great
ness and glory are only comparative
at the best, and it is very question
able if the winner of the champion
ship in the sloop class on our minia-
ture inland sea, as his yacht crosses
the finish line with good five-min-
ute lead, and the handkerchiefS wave
from the club house veranda, and
admiring landsmen rush to the dock
to catch the painter as the victor
lands and grasp the wet but beam
ing crew by the hand, would change
places with the royal yachtsman,
even though the cannons boom loud,
the whistles blow shrill and Union
Jack is flung to the breeze from ev-
cry peak and masthead as the Bril-
tannia crosses the line At such a
moment it is by no means certain
that the White Bear skipper would
not have certain contempt for his
royal brother, for the former has
won his victory with his own hands,
the latter by the aid and skill of
hirelings. Both are autocrats within
their jurisdiction. If one doubt the
tyranny of the lake skipper, ship
with him as crew in a re-
gatta and fail to keep the main
sheet trimmed according to orders.
Yachting is equally adapted to the
most lazy and the most energetic
man. If you would be lazy and
dreamy, as at some times all men
love to be, hoist the sails of yaur lit
tie craft and glide noiselessly over
the ruffled surface of the lake. 1t
is laziness personified, and you
may build castles in Spain that sur
pass all other structures of Dream
land.
If energetic, craving excitement,
and keen to get ahead of your fell
low man, take that same boat, with
a picked and plucky crew, all swim
merS and careless of ducking, and
then sail the course in Saturday re-
1 gatta in a furious gale. Of excite
gn9ent there is a plenty as the yacht
jibes around the buoy and the crew
Heap to the weather side to save
capsize; and if you be looking for
actual exercise, hang on to the tiller
| and the sheets and keep them NOV
| ing rightly, and every muscle in your
| collection will be brought into such
| violent play that the arrival upon
Ivterra firma finds you as limp as
| your erstwfli1e immaculate white
| ducks whose glory has so long
since departed.
r One who demands little dash of
| sentiment to season his recrea-
i tons, a slight halo of romance sur
Grounding the summer outing, does
not have to step from the deck of
/ that same boat. Wait until night
| falls, and the moon marks a glitter
ing golden pathway across the lake,
and then, with a congenial compan-
| ion, sail off down the track of light.
The love for the beautiful and pict-
uresque is as easily gratified. 1t is
only necessary to join the White
Bear fleet on a moonlight prone
made, and it will be long before you
! will forget that poem in the moon
light, as the ghostly yachts, with
white sails glistening, wheel and fol-
| low, tack and bear away in answer
to the signals of the commodore.
To anticipate criticism 1 will adj
nit there is another side to yacht
! ing. There does come time when
the wind refuses to blow, and the
sun pours down so hot upon the deck
| that stagnation, mental, moral and
i physical, only expresses the situa-
! ton. And it is true that at such
| time the hidden evil in mans ma
| ture comes to the surface in most
| unattractive form. Mild, soft-voiced,
| church-going men will talk in a way
| that reminds you of a pirate craft.
| And if perchance a race is on,
and the yacht you are pushing hard
, catches breath Of wind that sends
| her spinning on ahead while it never
reaches the calm spot in which you
lie-the things that are said-but
let me draw the veil. A sail boat
in calm is certainly the slowest
thing yet devised by the ingenuity
| Of man. It is easily the most ex-
asperaring of the eXaspera ting
| things of the world. 1t is a trial OF
patience that Job VOTED not of. 1t
is wholly destructive of the yea,
yea, and nay, nay" style of CONVEX
satlon. A morbidly sensitive per-
son, or one who feels hurt on being
roughly spoken to, should never sail
IN regatta as part of a crew.
There is shippers license just as
there is poets license, and it is
just as frequently abused. The right
is always conceded to the skipper
TO tell any one on board, man or
woman, to do this, do that, and be
quick about it, as frequently as he
| assign. And protest is hardly in
order, even if the slow member of
| The crew is spoken to in way that
would cause a pitched battle upon
shore.
saf the keenest enjoyment is to be
gotten out of the summer t1n oil