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

night! / had such good time!'
''It will be a splendid picnic; l hope
you are going?" was the baited hook
that led to pre-
THE PICNIC A parations for an
BAITED HOOK excursion to the
OF SUMMER. woods. via the
railroad to a sta
ton where various wagons moved the
provisions two miles and you walked.
The sun was hot, you had left your UNI
brella at home. The sand was deep,
you wore low quarter shoes And then
the weary time till dinner was served
and the ants and bugs provided a play
ground on which to amble aud gambol
on pie and custard, and the salt that had
drifted into the cream. oh, but wasn't
it jolly. and didn't it get jollier when it
drizzle-d razzled and the hats and the
dresses and the coats and the pants all
absorbed both the drizzle and the draz-
zle. How sad. too, when the young
mother missed her youthful prodigy and
you tramped four miles to find him
with his father in the waiting train.
And how sweet to stand in the coach
while all the Sunday school children
tramped over your patent feathers. Sad
indeed is to be the fate of the manor
the woman-who deludes others with the
siren song, 81 had such good time at
the picnic. So sorry you missed it. 1t
was great"
"The best fishing trip I ever had" is
the way the visitor to the-seashore de-
scribes his visit
THE FISHERMAN on his return to
WHO ALWAYS the city. Il
CATCHES SUCKERS. had such good
time, and 1 kept
the whole hotel supplied with fish" His
face beams as he speaks, and you really
feel aggrieved that you've missed it all
and have had to stick in your hot office
during the scorching days. But to the
facts. This fisherman so gay and de-
bonair sat for hours and hours in the
sun holding a pole, and nary a nibble.
He aroused from his hotel mattress at
3 a. m. and dropped out to sea. from
which he returned too late for dinner
with face and hands we'll blistered, and
just five small sized fishes. He essayed
the trolling trick, and the wind died
away while the night came on and he
drifted back to the wharf late, tired,
hungry, mad. He caught his fish next
day with legal tender bait and shipped
them home as his speckled beauties, and
followed them to town with his ready Il
had a good time, great time, jolly
time But he, we'll you know what
they say of fishermen.
The banquet. especially the banquet
that provides all kind of indigestible
things to eat,
THE BANQUET and cold bottles
AND ALSO THE with the green
NEXT MORNING. seal on the drink,
after you've lar
ruped the bottom out of the punch
bowl, is another merry place for the
accumulation of I've had a good time"
stories. So jolly it is if you are a maiden
clothed in silken sheen to have the SOUP
over turned in your lap, or the cham
pagned spilled down your back by the
clumsy waiter. So nice to get up with
your dress pinioned under the legs of
the chair of the $50 pound exotic who
sits next you. Beautifully grand if you
are convivial man to see whether you
or the other fellow (for there is always
plenty of other fellows there when the
champagne sparkles) can hold the most
and next day you wish the other fellow
had your head. Yet the man and the
maid both radiate on their friends, and
say, II had such a good time! Your
ought to have been there So sorry you
missed the function.
There is no one to gainsay that the
view from the top of a mountain in
Western North
THE MOUNTAINS Carolina is a
AND HOW WE joy. but who is
ENJOY THEM. going to stand
up in defence of
the splendid time" in climbing up its
sides, and in stumbling again down its
precipitous places. Off to the moutnins is
a great summer game, and when you've
played it to a finish you wonder if you
could not have had just as good time
at home. This thing of a crowded room
in hotel, or a ''gymnastic mattress" in
a boarding house, with all conditions of
indigestibles served to you, this thing
of strolling all day long through leafy
dells and beside babbling brooks gets
wearisome after while, and yet when
the season is past ana you are ldnucu
at home dusty and railroad travel stain
ed you run to your ROOM get on new fix
ings and declare Il never bad such
time in my life. 1t was real good
time" yet privately you think of going
somewhere else next summer.
IS
Perhaps it is custom. perhaps we de-
ceive ourselves, or perhaps it's what is
expected just as
JUST a HINT we say Good
AS REGARDS morning when
CANDLE IDEA it's raining, and
we are dyspep-
tic, but I've had such good time" is
an expression that has been worked on
the public till it is moth eaten. But no
matter if we know it's so, we are going
to use ii today. and work it over for to-
morrow, and all our friends who do
things, or go to places, are going to tell
us that they have had the time of their
lives. I'm not pessimist neither do ]
want you to be one, but permit me to
hint that in many of the things of life
we consume UP too much gray matter