The morning times., 1896-05-24
How Washington Peo-
pie May Spend the
Season, and Incidents
Which May Make
Them Wish That,
After All, They Had
Stayed Serenely at
Home.

select ladies' magazines OF the country,
about
The figure on the picture most suggestive
to the minds eye at this season of the year
is one of these same vestal virgins on her
knees in the late hours of the evening
engaged in the task Of packing trunk.
II is true that all do not pack their trunks
on bendcd knees, for there are cases where
it has been found more convenient to sit
on the floor, Ia Turque, in the midst of
the flimses and mysterious which are to
be compressed into the few cubic feet Of
leather-bound space which goes, and is
occasionally all that gees, with the gin,"
or the grass widow.
Here we are again, then, right in the
middle of that ever-delightful and evcrper-
picking problem of getting out of town.
Scarcely is one home in th efall, when COM
nenccs all over again the symptoms of
this peculiar emotional insanity.
1t is strange. but true, that the girl who
slngs most sentimentally that fond old
song, There's no place like home" is the
very first TO leave it at time when it is
s1ost beautiful
Thereon hangs this tale. 1t is scarcely
credible that any living organism, with soul
and sentiment, could be so minded as at
any time to prefer the certain delights we
%ot of TO plume the wings for flight To
provincial towns one wots not of, and TO
leave father, mother. brother, sister, trades
men and other sufferers, to the Deserted
Village
BUTT is true that when the dog-days ap-
proach a certain psychological rabies
seizes on many thousand people to ge<
away, 10 get off, TO get out uf sight OF
home comforts, home cooking. and the
various other cetera of domestic felicity
1thas been found. a great Expense, several
ban uptcies, suspensions. assignments,
receiversnips, etc. that nothing VIII cure
this mauia, which is persoEified 10y the
poetic phrase OF the Summer Girl She
has been selected as the type of the summer
swallow, although thereis no special reason
why she should be the vicarious at0nement
for the sins OF the summer boy, with or
without a bald head, the mother and the
rest of the family, and a Il the other persons
OF the social drama Of the hot spell.
II is said that every bicycle owned by q
woman this season was intended to be
sop to induce her to let up on the summer
excursion craze. There is nothing to
show that anybody is going 10 stay home
by reason OF the bike On the contrary,
it is said that the bike viii go with the
woman TO land or lands where she can
''scorch" aud get sUnburned at her own
sweet will.
1t will not be many days now before there
will be realization of the various scenes
in black and white Illuminated on this page.
Trustworthy reports, especially from the
great Northwest, are that there is unusual
activity in boudoirs late of nights, in which
the summer girl figures. She is repre-
scnted as on her knees, as busy as Arachne,
doing the prosaic act Of packing trunk in
the most approved picturesque summer
garments and poetic fashion. Everybody
knows that the table of contents of one of
these arlzs is as long and as varied as the
Empire" The mother OF the girl who is
going forth to conquer is also engaged in
the same business, only it is varied with
sundry additions in the way Of matersa
medica for his children who are also
''going north for a few months,'' as the
phrase is. :.
AS for him, it is not the fashion that he
should go abroad multitudinously in these
''tight times,' which is another phrase
with an ambiguous Specification. In the
world that mObilizes itself in the gay days
of the outing season, there are only two
classes Of human male beings. One of
these is the individual who is still engaged
in building up business" and who can t
leave horl le while the building is in progresa
The other is the fellow who has married
the girl who inherited the dust of the
fellow who has already builded up
business, and which building is summer
by summer being rapidly and successfully
razed to the ground.
There are, of course, other men, like De-
partment clerks, who belong to the class of
thirty-day miliionaires who go abroad for
that period as the representatives of their
uncle. Then there are other clerical gem
tlemeu in legal offices whose function it
is to say Not in or .".Just out" and exc
out the rest OF the day copying a fictitious
summons and complaint in ideal cases of
breach of promise in which they are the de-
PENDANTS.
taL- A.
with so much parting in sight, that sweet
sorrow, OF which the great poet made a
note, there ought to be enough tears shed
to equip one of the recent cloudbursts in
this vicinity. One Of the fictions of the ro-
nance of these going away daysis that the
men who stay behind to- continue to build
up the business are unfortunates in the SUI
perlative degree when compared with the
women who go away annually to build up
their constitution at the expense of the
master builder. xS-zsazs@sss.s-4,
Just take walk any day down to the
Sixth street station or the Baltimore and
OHIO station and see the ma take leave of
che family, who are off for the season.
The coufidences of the night before have
broken out afresh in the hypocrites eye,
and there is more than trace of the SYM
pathetic tear Of the mother OF the family,
who feels that the dear man is doomed to
dreary two months of unhappiness. But
this is a scene for Corregio. Upon such
sacrifices as these the gods themselves
throw ipcense."
This man is a victim-or was-of the
hallucinatiou that bicycle for the old lady