New-York tribune., 1900-09-15
GATHERED HERE AND THERE.

IheSe are the days when ''nutbroWn mayoes
are met wherever goes. The rank and file
Of humanity have had their vacation and returned
to prosaic city life, leaving behind them the broad
fields and forests and singing birds One thing,
however, the erstwhe fair vacationist has brought
with her, and that IS complexion ike PaWnee
the suns fierce rays without even sailor hat TOT
bare head and ungloved hands. And now is she
and 69tsrmk AND creams Of every description to
bring back the softness and whiteness necessary
for the winter campaign.
Other things. too she will be obliged to discard.
The young who served well enough" as
cavalier in the summer hotel may chance to be
Impossible in town. He has romped in the
water with the summer girl and carried her basket
when they went picnicking, and quoted poetry to
her in the moonlight. and he thinks he can do the
same with necessary allowance for city customs.
when they come back TO town. So he calls prompt
~ prepared TO greet and be greeted with the gay
informaIity of the mountain or seasnore ana @ tneh
mer is mot at home" II the fatuous youth SHOULD
f ngaa en tat to makes him feel that Winter
is far ADVANCE of schedule time gives @ MN I'm o tne
do Mr. Junetime?'' in voice devoid Of feeling. and
up! One never expects to meet ones summer ac-
nee agaP that yOg s ba IN t6e kindly
summer rather then live 10 be the miserable
Miss Summer obviously and 3stentat!ously makes 1
no effort to be entertaining The silences are ere ire
quent and prolonged TO agony, untlI poo, EOunS
Junetime after five minutes that seem ike e.; an
hon
she repeats as She might have said. TT may rain
next week" He bows himself out with murder
in his heart, and she goes to her room w7[n @ re-
iieyed Thank goodness. he is settled Inc loea
of his ever coming!
There are other kinds Of summers. however, and
the summer girl when with her chosen friends and
associates TO her liking, Is good comrade and II
may be- a lifelong frond The well known sports
man w H H. Murray, said lately at dinner OF
the Megantic Fish and Game Club: In the sports
and pasttnes OF the outdoor life woman has found
her nobIest companonship with man. her
cheerfulness has enLvened the camp IN ,oa oaSs u
clouded skies and cloudier luck, and her parence
and courage have shortened the longest ua anu tLe
hardest portage. Her presence has rehned our
sports and ourselves and while they nave naue ner
more healthy and more lovely she has MADE US
more manly and worthy to be loved.
They were assembled a studio roof one Of
the recent hot nights, and one suggested that
each in turn should relate the most thrilling ex-
perience in his her life. There was a scientist
tho land of serpents held his breathless and
WAS voted the most thrilling OF all He gave a
vivid description Of his through the forest ana
at a moment when he had raised his arm TO chop
some underbrush from his path huge boa con-
strictor swooped down from above and bound him
TO the trunk of a tree. Fortunately, the reptile
and so left free. which gave him chance, before
he could hear his ribs cracking, to chop the
coils Of the boa with his axe ,, ,,,.
The most amusing as well as perilous incident
was told by a bright little woman well known as a
writer for the magazines She said: Il always
deadly fear Of fire and always expecting II, ana
at last it came. What few valuables I possessed
kept IN a strong box close TO my bed where could
put nv hand upon II the first alarm. One night
flames leaping past my window l sprang up to
find the adjoining house enveloped in flames. The
OF a neighbor's house over the way, holding in my
hands in a hystercaI grasp-my curling ron."