The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07
BY Edward

coming year,
SUMMER WAVES when the cal
AND WE WONDER endar m ers
WHY WE DID 1T. get ready to
spring on us the
365 days of 1903 with pictures of impos-
sible men and still more impossible
ladies, and scenery and trailing roses
and all that kind of bric-a-brac. And
with this waning of summer there comes
glance backward over some OF the
things We did, or which our nelghbors
did, or somebody else did, and We Won
der why We did it, or they did IT. IL is
an oft told tale, these retrospective
chances and while sometimes they bring
joy with them it is often the case that
we would like just to try 1T over again,
and we tune our Tyre in unision with the
bard who sang Backward, turn back
ward, o Time in thy flight" but time
has other engagements to fill and keeps
moving on.
Eyes, indeed. had such a good time,
you know" l heard the young lady say
to some one who
A VOICE FROM was assisting
OUT DARKNESS her in keeping
DRIFTED SWEETLY. the piazza from
being deserted
the other evening. / was just passing,
and her joyous words were waited on
the soft evening breeze. l happened to
know that she had just returned from
a social triumph at the seashore, and
that in all probability she did have what
the young woman of the age would term
"a good time" 1t is an expression
that is national, for it comes from
North and South, from East and West,
and alike by man and woman is it used.
Yet, after ALL when we diagnose the
case critically is it "a good time" we
had. or are we only cheating ourselves
with the husks of enjoyment, and is
there some one else who is getting the
full benefit. In other words is the game
of having a good time worth the candle
that is consumed in getting it?
Take this thing of rushing off to the
seashore for a few weeks, and look at
it from this
THIS THING OF view point of
FOR. SUMMER. man who is 60
ing to crowd
months of enjoyment into some eight or
ten days. perhaps less. For weeks she
has been worrying over her summer
wardrobe, and it's rush from home to
the dress maker, and the store, and back
home, and then again the dress maker
gets a visit and it's over and over that
the performance is repeated. This dress
don't fit and the other needs something
done to it, and this hat has not just the
right twist and that jacket is little too
long That is the story of the pre-
paration and when at last the trunk is
strapped and the longedfor haven
reached, perhaps the other girl (for there
is always the other girl to be considered
in dress as we'll as love-, has costumes
more chic and elegant, Then comes the
return home and the finery all crumpled,
torn here, marked by the spray there. is
tossed from out a topsy-turvey trunk.
Il had such good time girls she has
told her friends, but when she balances
the debt and credit accounts she wonders
IL it is so.
1--WE went over to the surf today and
we had such a good time" says the
maiden w i h
IN THE SURF flowing hair as
WITH ALL ITS she trips into the
JUMBLING UP. summer hotel
after her dip in
the dashing waves. And then she hur-
ries off to her room and as she sees her
dishevelled locks and the tan on her
cheeks she opens the cold cream case
with an exclamation "what fright |
am" She has gone to the surf ar
rayed most bewitchingly, and as she
energies from the bathing pavilion she
Is conscious that she looks stunning
in her natty bathing suit. But in the
water her mouth fills up with the brine,
her rubber hair protector slips off, she
loses her footing and she has the ex-
perience of standing on her head while
her feet make frantic gestures in the
air above the water. She is tumbled and
tossed, and trudging back to the bath
room she accumulates sand by the cart
load. it seems, and then after a strug
gle in stuffy little cuddy hole with re
helIious garments she is finally ready to
saw what a good time | had in the
surf!' and she knows she doesn't mean
ii.
The ballroom in the summer time
is also megaphone from which count
less voices cry
THE GERMAN out. II am hav-
AND RESULTS ing such a good
NEXT MORNING. time! 1t was
after ten when
she reached there and three had chimcd
when she left In the german the young
fellow behind her had stepped on her
train and ripped off segment. Her
second escort had ruined her pretty lit
tie lace bedecked fan, and her friend
Susyne had whirled by with bunch OF
American Beauties handsomer than hers.
Harry had forgotten his engagement at
one time in his desperate anxiety 10 get
another girl an ice In the mad, whirl
she had become heated, and In the
draft she was soon the victim OF pie
bean sneeze, which chung to her with
the affection of long lost friend. When
it was all over she found her way TO pea
and on the morrow. fatigued and wearled
from loss of sleep, her nose red from the
overzealous attention of her cold she
says to the friend who meets her i'll the