Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-10
BIB GOSSIpS OF
- SUMNER RESORTS.
The Difficulty of Pleasing the Average Woman
and Undesirable Phases Of Country House
Life.

blessed woman among us looks for 1t
every summer, sheds bitter tears over
the unreliability of printed descriptions
and then trOts off to the best place that
SHE can get and tries to be happy If
there is anybody I'M the world who
knows a rather lonely and somewhat
lorn place where they know how to
make corn bread, serve chickens fried
in gravy after the Maryland fashion,
make good cup OF coffee and where
permission is accorded one to dress as
one pleaseS, to read when one pleases
and mot to get too intimate with the
family unless one so desires, let her or
him write to me. l don't pretend to
say there are not such places. 1 only
say that somehow or other we don't
seem to find them, and yet we don't de-
mand much.
The average country boarding house
keeper takes a dislike to the woman
from the city who has come to rest.
She objects fiercely to your wearing a
cloth skirt, shirt waist, lying in
hammock and reading She thinks it is
your duty as Christian to bring along
all your best frocks, to show them to
her, to tell her how much they cost and
who made them, and then when the
usual fair is given she prefers that you
should dress as if you were going to
the opera, for then her special chum
cam whisper to her: ''Oh, say Marthy,
amt them city women wicked, showing
their necks that way and their arms all
bare! j call it perfectly indecent! And
before the minister tool" And the lady
who entertains few guests for a con-
sideration says in response: well!
Well! When you have seen as much of
the world as l have-I once staid nearly
two weeks in New York city-you will
know that as bad as these women look
they might be worse" And you hear
this doubtful praise. But when party
go to farmhouse and lie around on
the grass and in hammocks and read
and play with the chickens and find out
exactly how much Intelligence turkey
has (and if you devoted month to
studying turkey. as q once did, YOU
would know that he has a lot more
sense than men; 1 will tell you why
some day, but that will be another
story and don't wear fancy clothes
and are not overanxious to confide their
family affairs to the lady who, just to
be polite, has taken them in in more
senses than one-well, for such am tn-
dependent crowd as this there Is but lit
tie interest, and they ara counted
mighty queer
By the bye, how was 1t ever started?
l don't mean the summer boarding
house I mean an idea. Whoever
started the idea that the summer girl
was cheap? She is a delusion and
snare On account of the boys all be-
ing off to the war she has concluded
to stay in town part of this summer,
and the consequence is that where the
average young man used to see her
from Friday until Monday he is now
on duty bound to trot her off to get
fresh air every night Of her life, the
fresh air including, naturally enough,
the hearing of some pleasant music,
the drinking of something cool, and the
absorption of her special delight, ice
cream. She doesn't hesitate to tell
him just the sort she likes, which has
cherries and citron and pineapple in 1t