The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-14
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THE VACATION AND SOCIETY
HUMBUGS.
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II you are blessed with an attractive
figure and a beautiful face, why try to
Improve upon what God has done for
you by wearing jewels? Better spend your
that IL will be as dlvinsly beautiful as
the house I'm which your soul Is dwelling,
thereby making your individuality bless
Ing TO the world. You was not made
for this world merely TO be looked at and
admired. The tree that bears no fruit,
be II ever so beautiful in its foliage, is
of no real value TO the keeper OF the
vineyard
But men are just as bad as women
Sometimes l think they're worse. / never
could understand how rich men, some that
call themselves real swells or dudes.
young and old alike bav-headed and
those that part their hair In the middle
II say | never could understand how
twas that they could order their tailors
TO iron a crease In the front and back
side OF their pantaloons so as TO make
them look for all the world as II they
were ready-made right out OF n Jew
clothing house! Well. IT goes TO show.
as Mr.. Shakespeare says, What fools
these mortals be-" l suppose II fashion
Just as spruce as can be, ana call them
selves leaders OF fashion.
You needn't be alarmed about the com
fort that most summer hotels afford,
for I've travelled all over the seashore
and mountain resorts at houses charging
all the way from eight dollars week TO
thirty dollars a week. and among them
all i never slept in a poor bed yet, and
every one OF them was neat and clean
i wouldn't sleep on feathers II they'd give
me the feathers with the geese thrown
In. bat you are never afflicted with any
thing OF that kind. They use mostly mat
tresses that are cool and comfortable. and,
OF course. good geese feathers are lux.
ury for pillows.
Now, what I've had to say about sum
mer hotels doesn't apply TO all CONNER
cial houses, for I've known OF a numerous
number OF them TO be afflicted with cimex
lectularius, which, being Interpreted
means that class OF hemipterous insects
vulgarly called "bed-bugs" | like the
scientific name the best. because II does
away with that creeping sensation. and is
just fatal TO the bug. Where there's real
cleanliness these nocturnal pests can't
exist, and that's the reason they's never
seen at summer hotels. | don't like 20
talk about these filthy things. but | want
you TO start out with clear understand
ing and an interrupted imagination.
There are hundreds OF folks that think
they can't go 10 summer resorts because
they think IL costs go much 70 stay there.
Now, that isn't so. You haven't got to
cover everything you want with dollar
bill half so much you think you have.
You can git board at nearly all watering
places 20 III almost anybody's pocket
book. II you are a millionaire. OF course,
You Will want to go TO the larger hotels
where they have an. extensive service and
o., l,s.rt4 hot
you know that you can always find them
everywhere.
IL you are a person OF moderate means
you can find plenty OF good hotels that
will feed you on just as good food and
just as well cooked for ten dollars and
twelve dollars a week IL you stay any
length OF time. as II you paid eighteen dol
lars and thirty dollars per week. And
for the young lady clerks and school
teachers there are good accommodations
for them at good hotels for from seven
dollars 10 nine dollars per week. And
there are numerous boarding houses ana
farmhouses where one can git good home
comforts with a good and we'll spread
table for five dollars a week.
Goodness knows these prices are low !
enough There is scarcely anybody who |
can't save up twenty-five dollars by which /
TO take a vacation for their health's sake I
where travel is not very expensive. !
could always hire a good turnout at I
summer resort for less money than I al /
ways had TO pay i'm the city. You can |
i've as reasonable at summer resorts as I
you can at home II you use judgment /
outside OF the expense of travelling. Most /
people go 90 summer resorts 70 git needed /
rest and recreation and some entertain |
ment. and such folks are always benefited.
but II ever you make up your mind be
you rich or poor. that you intend to lead
a continual life of pleasure you won't git
the thing you are looking for.
Don't try TO rush matters i'm trying to
enjoy yourself and 20 git we'll again.
Making a lot OF noise and cutting a greal
figure don't help matters. and they make
other folks uncomfortable. l used to know
n man I'm prayer meetin' who would say \
"amen" and GLORY 10 God" so often /
and so loud that he disturbed everybody
else present When he had got about so
far Brother James used to go round 20
his seat and ask him for dollar for mis-
sions-no more "amens." he'd be as mum
as could be all the rest OF the evening
He was just a shouting 10 hear himself
and have others, listen. BE sincere when
you say anything and then you won't
he put down so easy. But then, don't
overdfaw things when you talk. for that
brings up comparisons that are some
times not pleasant. and shows up .th.rgs
lady evangelist not long ago I'm Provl-
dence. who was a dreadful interesting
preacher. but one evening she sal 7 that
II she had not done Just as God wanted
her TO. she might have been simply the
wife OF man In n common sphere, ond
never risen above Il. But when she
said that, she couldn't have remembered
the young lady who married a common
farmer, and settled down I'm log ~aoIn on
Nolin's Creek I'm Kentucky. and moving
from there farther west, she lived in
several other homes but all OF them log
cabins. and some OF them had only
mother earth for a floor She had few
effects but she had the same
hope for better things as all girls harc.
but she never realized them She vas
Christian girl and the mother OF n SON