The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-08

Copyright, 1901. by W. r. Hearst.>
1T is a commonplace to say that there
are a great many things in this world
that don't come up to the prospectus"
said the we1 v looking youth in the
Panama hat, The little boy at the
circus who wept to be taken out to look
at the tim-tam banners in front isn't
the only one. There are others. Among
them is the summer young man.
Viewed from afar IL looks like the
fellow who had the time and money TO
do the society act at the summer hotel
had COrnered the whole visible supply
of human happiness, He has found the
nearest apDl OCch to heaven--a place
where there are seven women to one
man, and he is It. He has discovered
a little Eden. with blooming flowers,
and shady walks and seqUestered
paths. and every description OF Eve,
while he is the only Adam
Then, too. there is no other such
panacea for ROUNDED vanity. N town,
in winter, those Of us who don't own
automobiles and pockets full of theatre
tickets, and can't afford to set up bot
ties and birds very often, are pretty apt
20 find ourselves passed up for some
fellow with a bigger Nvad. We get the
tail end of dances and the leftover
smiles. but in the summer we have our
revenge. Anything in trousers, from
the cradle to the grave, is at a premium
at a summer resort.
out. and about two weeks ago L gath
cred up my glad rags and started off 70
pose as the only pebble on the beach
at A fashionable summer resort At
first IL was great. I had the ball room
TO myself. The pick Of all the pretty
girls, and nobody breaking in on a
waltz just as it. began to get interest
ing
Then it dawned on me that I would
have u dance with that whole ball
room full OF girls or else oe an inhuman
monster, and the thought sent the cold
perspiration down my spine. and made
my knees sruite together until they
sounded like castanetS. You know how
girls look dancing together. There's al
WAYS a fixed. set smile on their faces
that says a. plainly as words: I'm go
ing 10 look like / enjoyed this If I drop
dead in the attempt It's a thing to
wiring any mans heart with pity.
. Its a sight that goes to my heart
and / did the best 1 could. 1 danced
with them in single file, by two, by
companies and battaIions and pladoons
and humbiy feel that the miles I two
stepped during my brief vacation has
been accounted unto me for righteous
ness.
II have always envled those fortu-
aate youths who occupied the center
% the social stage and had the lime
light always playing o., them. but be
gin TO see that the- have troubles of
their own. It's one thing 20 have a
pretty XII SiAONf - VdLkAdllLl Ut your
society, and anosher to have forty all
apparently dying 10 bask in your
SMILES Did you ever make yourself
sick eating sweets? I had just that
sticky sort of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
much feeling.
Then the things those girls could
think Of doingi / tell you feminine in
genuity is something diabOiical There
vas one girl who had mania for nag
gsng mountains. and every time 7 Doked
my head out OF the door she tried 20
inveigie me into sprinting off W a hill
with her There was another VINO was
a golf ticld. and who playfuily routed
me out OF bed with the early worm. by
Eammering on my door, and 'Wouldn t
T. like 10 take turn around the links
IN the early morning. There was an
other who had mania for sitting in
the moonlight until the chickens
crowed, and she let me in for that for
n time or two before I got wise to lfer
game, and there was another soulful
creature who reed ibsen aloud to me
one hot afternoon. 1 tell you the suf-
terings Of ttle early Christian MARTYRS
are not in it with the woes OF the one
lorn- lorn young man at a summer re-
SORT.
Then the Thugs the girls want, You
know It's the fashion for girls to MAKE
collections Of things to take horne. and
braS abc'.t next winter. This Is the
hs-tband Choliy gave me at Long
Branch This Is the cane Dick made
me take tue day he proposed to me.
when we climbed the White mountain.
This IL the cigarette case that Albert
gave me that day at rSar4gansett,