The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-11

md In fine spirits. and the evening nmuse-
ments and lovely walks and drives. | would
" mentioning a notable winter place. for all
the NaTraRansetts and Bar Harbors and sum
Zone main delight OF the intown summer
bonrder is the Independence In. tho matter of
dress. said the elder womnn and the relief
from the lenst straininR inter fashion or the
keeping. up appearances of any sort. You are
aS completely gone away, soto speak, aud ~ as
1iiferent an environment when established In 4
good-class city boarding house. with your
friends and acquaintAnccs all ont OF town and
nobody. you care anything about in sight. as
My silver mounted toilet brushes and every
suggestion OF winter and responsibility OF any
kind | hNYe packed away. leaving out only such
simple belongings IA are necessary for dccency,
t ahd when wiI Ii | get Hros settled u Ill., u my ny qp "a 1,Inr tTi again
and l will have the same feeling as though. no.
turned from a journey, At my time OF life L
ton in summer. l want to be calm and rn-
tional and let alone then, and save my enter
be saved the annoyance and bother OF house
keeping. too. for three or four months in the
year, and l come hero, where have all the
lord who knows what | want In the eating and
caretaking line and will give 1t to me, and e,N-
Slnde noisy, undesirable people and Keep the
The stay-at.home summer boarder OF this
type has as distinctively ephemeral summer
fellow .boarders as any merely transitory CON
tact Of the sort experienced at sea beach or
country inn. When once the trunks 20 out In
September and adleus are said, the severance
between the some time friends is as clean cut
md complete as though they would be sepa-
rated by hundreds Of miles during the rest of
the year, ms cad of merely by "A few familiar
Gi n y b Sl3Sks cor Th TsT rsrTnnc they f heln each p other nhss
the time. and at the end of the season they go
merely, u cab drives. distance, but, ms far out
from various sets and sections of the city. as
though a continent stretched between them.
same Influences Of weather IF and sdiV Resentment IN
hear the same, operas. attend the same
churches, read the same newspapers about
the same local happenings and events, walk on
the same t~horoughfares,. and. maybe, patron
ize the same BARRIERS and manicures. hut each
Jones or the Miss smith whom ] met last sum.
mer Merely acquaintanee mutually reckoned
e9 int TehS at ct tRes FISr Eish re sns EsS or E ShSy cam
from their native New York.
well before you met here an uninitiated fell
low boarder remarked to one of these stay
"oh, no. not at ALL" was the hastily made
round understand. We, were on bowling
mer, and she met me cordially when ! came
again in June this year. That is the extent Of
woman. except, twice on the street, since left
The stay-in-town New York summer board
er Ia as apt to snatch at straws OF entertain
ment for beRuiling the time as any loiterer or
piazza dawdler at a summer resort. Il don't
care who they are; they may. be no great
shakes, but they are pleasant, and one must do
something. have somebody to exchange n word
with" is as much Of a subterfuge in the city
when one, the outsider from the bahamas, for
Instance. hears the pass-the-time talk OF these
city-met, stay-at-homeS 1t is borne in on the
listener how innately proud and fond of their
home city are these townspeople. each after
his own fashion and In his W peculiar
sphere, Two Olu-tlmerS OF the Stay-Qt-lOm9
summer colony were exchanging, reminis-
cences the other evening on q little side balcony,
recalling who lived in such and such houses in
former times. and who dwelt in the houses OF
the neighborhood round about them at pres
ent-a neighborhool. 81 exclusive pretension
and eff1ciency-the light that streamed out
from the one boarding house that had gained
footing on the block: being the only oasis Of
life in a monotony of dark and shut-up houses.
In the mutual conJuring of recollections and
matching of notes as to past eventC, the takers
drew nearer to each other in a social sense
than either would have dreamed possible had
she stopped to think about 1t. In the dead
Stoppage OF formality and custom at this eleV-
enth hour of the summer, the shut-up houses
In the vicinity of where they sat, the absence
of conventionality, and the natural expansive
ness entailed by the heat-a universal leveler
they conversed as dispassionately and init
mately together as though they were miles
removed from the city they discussed and had
met at some hillside resort, where they were
only too pleased to find a topic of mutual in
terest. The stay-at-home summer boarder's
ethics as to acquaintance are as unstable. ex-
cept in the sense of being preconceived, as any
fitting seaside sojourn might authorize. and
the stay at-home summer boarder is q genus
not possible Of development save in a town OF
New Iork's diversity and multitude OF inter-