Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-12
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
HEAPS OF EN-.
Summer Boarders F!ocking to
Farms of Maine.
They Quickly Acquire Tan and Soon
Wear Their Oldest Clothes.
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The woods are full of them" was
the remark made by farmer, in an
swer to the scribe's inquiry if there
were any summer tourists out his
way. Why" he said. Il can count up
within radius of one mile from my
place. 40 people who are summering
in Maine and boarding in the country.
To-day is the first day since June
that we have been without company
All our party Went back to Boston. last
night, and l am expecting another
bunch on the boat, today. for two
weeks, and Aug. Is l have got Bos-
ton and Maiden party of ia club of
some kind-to stay all through the
month and into September. In fact |
have got more applicants for board
than l can take care of.
This same party We're all down at
my house last year. and this year they
are coming again and want their
friends to come down before they go
back and put in a week or so with
them on the farm. If this thing keeps
on, l have got TO build on in the
spring and ii looks now as if it would.
Il only started in few years ago
to take a few boarders. They kept
coming year after year, bringing their
sisters, their uncles. their cousins and
their aunts with them. until / have
had full house about all the time and
have had an overflow meeting among
the neighbors. You see we live near
the watersso they can get all the boat
ing and fishing they want. What they
catch wouldn't make much of a corner
: in the fish market but they don't care
as long as they can drown the worm.
When they first come they look
pretty respectable with their billed
shirts and collars and the ladies
look like fashion plates. but after a
day or so on the farm they commence
to shuck themselves of their good
clothes and get into their outing
outing clothes, and then the fun COM
mcnces. My wife came near driving
one of them off the place. the other
day. She thought he was a hobo. She
says she would be ashamed to death
to be seen out in our wood lot looking
as some of the ladies do. but then
wife amt up to fashion. you know.
She wants them labeled Summer
Tourists. so the sheriff won't think we
are running an annex to the peniten-
tiary or a private asylum for unfortu
mates, for those lawn tennis suits and
striped sweaters do look a little noisy
But then the neighbors don't complain
about being kept awake nights on ac-
count of the loud clothes. so | don't
mind.
There is one fellow that comes ev-
cry year. He is a banker or broker in
Boston. l don't know which. He
weighs about Do pounds and when he
gets into pair of golf pants and zebra
sweater he is a sight. l tell my wife
he looks like bale of hay with the
middle hoop busted. and he tickles her
more than cOlOred campmeeting
would. She wakes me up in the night
sometimes laughing about those pants.
She says she can't tell whether he is
going or coming. as he looks alike on
both sides He always brings his wife
with him so there won't anybody steal
him. so he says. and she is as tall as
he is broad and thinner than church
fair oyster stew where one oyster has
wallowcd through a gallon of milk
and water. And when she gets her
summer toys on and they appear out
together. why. all l need is cotton
the best start for dime museum of
any man in this country.
Il had couple of lovers in the last
bunch. They wanted to live on angel
cake and recite poetry by moonlight.
They got along first rate until they
both fell over skunk in their ram
blings. They couldn't see an elephant
they were so taken up with each other.
The young man smelled like pulp
mill and the sweet siXteener used up
cologne by the barrel to drive that
pungent odor out of her raiment. The
first night he came the poetic muse
struck him and he was filling my sit
ting room full of doggerel poems long
after the other boarderS had gone to
roost up under the caves. Wife heard
the racket and thought he had over
loaded his stomach. and got up and
asked him if he had collie. He said.
No, it was poetry. She was as mad
as wet hen and said his parents
must have married cousins.
Il tell you the fellow that never kept
summer boarders don't know what fun
there is in this vale of tears. They
think am greener than a seed cucum-
Der. but | am having more fun than
barrel of monkeys. If they can get
any more sport out of this thing than
] can they are welcome to it. that's
all. l have got the best set of board
ers that ever came down the pike not
kicker in the bunch. eat what you
give them and call it good. sleep like
bricks and snore like blazes. They are
out all day in the hot sun without any
hats on and when they get ready to
go back home they look like a crowd of
jubilee singers from Hampton But
that's what they come for. so am sat
isfied
Say. you newspaper fellow. drive
out and break bread with us some day.
and l will not only give you good
time but win show you the most varie-
gated costumed set of summer tour
lists that ever took sun-bath on a
kennebec county farm
Don't be satisfied with temporary relief
from indigestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure