The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-01
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II DELLA IndI summer is
\ becoming most demoralizing sea-
son in this country where prosper
ity enables more townspeople each
year to go away for a portion, if not
all of the heated term. At this time
it is asserted that they give not only
their tired muscles and brains a va
cation. but their religion and often
their moral standards as well. Now
this is an assertion too sweeping in
its extent to be justified. Many people
go away for the summer and return
with no change for the worse in NOR
ais, no weakened principles, no loss of
self respect. They are as punctilious
in attendance upon religious duties
when away as at home. They live in
the same routine or at least indulge in
no laXity Of propriety that would not
be tolerated in the every day home
life. They go away for a rest or a
change and return refreshed and up
lifted physically, mentally and spirit
ually.
But these cannot be said to include
the majority for more and more as
the years pass, is it apparent that
summer resorts are becoming noted
rather for their gaiety than for their
morality. The rapidity of certain ex-
treme phases of city life is penetrating
even to the remoteness OF quiet lake
sides and country places. Like vice.
these forms of dissipation, become less
hateful the oftener seen and thus it
is that too many do not return from
their summer vacations as untouched
by worldliness and as pure in mind
and heart as when they went away.
Scranton is a most conservative city.
Our residents realize the fact more,
perhaps, in the summer than at any
other time. The contrast between the
social pleasures here and many towns
of this size and larger is marked to a
great degree in the freedom from the
license which prevails in society else
where. This is notably apparent at
the resorts where young people, and
those not so young, are apt to give
looser rein to their observation of the
conventionalities than at home. Con-
sequently the conviviality, the lack of
reserve and the absence of what we
are wont to consider ordinary propri-
ETY. cannot but be recognized as differ
ing widely from the custom in our
home city.
Many of our society leaders continue
TO be Independent enough to refrain
from serving wine at dinners. Our
young people are not especially famil-
lar with wine suppers and are willing
so enter with thorough enjoyment into
an evenings pleasure unenlivened by
intoXicants of any kind. Such eX-
amples are worth more than many
temperance lectures. and all the in
vectves of Swallow, Woolley & Co. ct
al. Those who do serve wine are so
| conservative in their methods that the
scenes familiar to many residents of
| other cities are utterly unknown here.
Girls do things at summer resorts
which would never occur to them to do
at home. Indeed, If it were suggested
that they would be capable of such
antics their accusers would find them
| selves extremely unpopular.
For instance: What nice girl would
| pose for a photograph in her stocking
| feet with her skirts considerably above
| her knees? Yet on the beach she no;
| only poses thus In very undignified
and indeicate attitudes, but with the
| knowledge that the photograph with
her name attached VIII appear in the
newspapers, and often she is a nice
| girl, too, or Is considered as such,
At home she wouldn't go prowlng
along on dark streets with some young
man until l o'clock at night. At the
shore, or the lake, she will sit in some
secluded corner back from the board
| walk or on the sands, alone with a
man until even later hour.
| At home nothing would induce her
to go into a cafe with a man and order
| drinks. At the shore she is quite like
| ly 10 do this, at first. from the dread
| OF being laughed at by new-found
friends who are used 10 that sort OF