Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07
AS A SUMMER RESORT

cool and collected. despite the whiting,
tremuious waves of heat that rose from the
asphalt Il m going to sit down and write
prospectus for an orgar'1e ton that I'll
get together later on. to DE called the
Washington Association of Summer Stay-
at-Homes.
NO, l won't take the moot ground that
Washington is natural summer resort
itself. 1 won't have to. Some folks think
that Washington is just as good a summer
resort as any other place, and a whole lot
OF others think just the contrary. But /
wont nave to take up that end of it at all.
iii Inc ~, gronndwork of my little argument
Will be that anybody who's got any sort of
comfortably arranged home is good
| hundred per cent better off In that home
during the hot weather. no matter II the
than he could possibly be a-traipseine
around looking for comfort and cooith, SO
10 speak. at so-called summer resorts either
IN the mountains or beside the sea,
i've tried both games. and so has my
wife, and we ought to know. We're both
Just as fond Of being on the co. as it's
| CARED, as the next pair, but for several
years past we've abstained from being fond
| OF that sort of thing during the hot months
| In the first place, never found at any
| old summer resort the kind of summer eat
ing that gets along with me as well as the
KIND get at home. This is not to say that
| the late Sam Ward. or that l live on any
| more rat or the land than my neighbors:
| out 1t does mean that l can get what [
| want, and get it when want it and eat II
| nov want 1t, and if that isn't about three
| Iourths OF the fight In keeping cool and
PLACID and even-tempered during the sum
| mer then all of my experience in such ef-
forts, here and elsewhere, has gone for
| nothing.
| For example,on sizzling hot July morn
| ing in Washington 1 can climb out of bed
| along toward o'clock and crawl into the
colo tup Tor refreshing plunge-and there
! are rev OF us that can afford a room with
a-bath at a summer resort, for the bath
attachment comes high Then 1 can go
| DOWN to the cool, half darkened basement
room wherein eat and sit down tn the
| meal that the colored girl has got all ready
the stuff that 1 ordered myself on the
| previous evening. l prop my morning
paper up against the sugar bowl while I'm
| eating and read the headlines and there
| won be any grinning or sulky waiter star
| ing the eyes out of me for a tin. Then.
| after breakfast, can manage to put away
d pretty comfortable smoke and then hop
| an open car and have pretty nice ride
and breezy one through the most beauti-
| fully shaded streets of America to the gov
| eminent office where 1 am enrolled on the
| pay list. o
Now. there are not many cooler build
| lngs~ on earth. what with the yentilating
systems, electric fans and such provided by
Your iloeral Uncle Sam, than the govern
|
nave mad any difficulty in keeping mighty
comfortable in my Office during the hottest
Gays AT the lunch hour 1 can side across
the street, in the shade of lux,lriant trees
all the way, to the little lunch shack where
l can get the kind of cool snack that the
inner man needs on a roasting day. Then
aIter q, can board another cool open car
ana make my way home in comfort and
md there the house beautifully suggestive
OF GOODNESS in it's darkened condition NV
wi5e an hxed up in loose, cool-looking togs
anu me aforesaid dark maiden downstairs
engaged in dishing up the dinner that /
ordered to be prepared before leaving the
house in the morning
After getting away with the dinner. es-
pecially designed for it's non-heating prop
critics, L can paddle around in my yard
watering the grass and flower bed and the
pavement in front, and in this way contriye
10 Keep as cool as the proverbial cucumber
until bed time. When bed time Greens
around l can go to bed in much bigger
and more comfortable room than I'd ever
De aDle to afford at any summer resort fit
70 aplue 1n-Wfth my own big bed and the
mating on the floor and the bed room fur
niture looking cool in its linen covers and
all that sort of thing
ell how would l get through a roast
ing July day down at the seashore for ex.
ample? I'd creep out of a stufry hot bed
IN not. stuffy room, with the sun slarins
IN at the windows as likely as not and 70
nave TO DO the best l could for a bath with
the stingy little water pitcher and baslr,
and MOTEL towel. By the time I'd gel the
conventional clothes that I'd be com
pelled to wear 70 breakfast in the hotel
alning room, I'd be as hot as a baked po-
tato, my collar already partly wil.od. and
IN a pretty sassy before-breakfast mood
with my wife. who, also In the rainent
women have to wear at any summer resort
motel meal. would be pretty much disposed
to be sassy herself by the time we landed
at the breakfast table.
Then we'd have to eat what they gave
us. and we'd have to talk pretty to all Of
OF ho
looked upon as unamiable and this would
make US warmer. whereas at home during
the breakfast We wouldn't have to talk to
each other in more than monosyllabIes
AFTER breakfast we'd go out to the veranda
or porch. or what-d'ye-call-it, and sit there
and rock for an hour or SO, secretly dis
hiking about half of the rest of the folks
sitting there, and then we'd take the not.
unshaded walk down to the bath house to
get ready for the plunge in the surf wed
swelter In the dinky bath house coom while
making ready for the plunge, and we
wouldn't any more than have our clothes |
on again after coming out than wed be |
baking. Then we'd scramble up to the |
hotel and get ready for luncheon, which |
would be the same old thing all the time |
and after that we'd go to our sizzling room |
Il verify believe all seaside hotel rooms
sizzle during the afternoon, no matter how
they're situated-and, unbuckling. we'd take |
a nap, waking up in a miserable perspira-
ton and on-communicative. By that time
we'd have to- get the real togs on for the |
dinner. which. again. wouldn't be anything |
IKE as palatable as the stuff We know how |
to order for our own home dinners and |
after that meal we'd repeat the veranda
act and pretend to believe that there was a |
corking breeze blowing there Then. after
swing down on the beach we'd return to
the hotel room, filled, as all seaside hotel
rooms are, with the mingled odor Of sea
water and hotel soap. and turn in AMI bake
with the bed. as likely as not, as hard as
piece of mahogany.
The Washington Association of Summer
Stay-at-Homes is going to be mighty solid
and sensible and formidable sort Of an out
fit when get it organized. and I'd be will
ing to bet right now that it's membership
list'll be filled to the limit all the time-for
the number of folks who think the way 1 |
do on the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES subject is
on the Increase in this mans town all the
time"