New-York tribune., 1903-06-14
0be Had Of the Dougbnuf.
How Question What Is Doughnut2" Wrought
and Sore Hearts.

-opsrded it as the most nearly ideal summer re-
so-t in Maine or anywhere else?"
i did, ! do." PenrOse answered but the
,.,esence Of certain other people who regard 1t |
tn the same light makes it intolerable Untn |
bssr that the old crowd frequent it no more, I |
sbsn seek pastures new to browse in. They |
psed to be such & congenial crowd, too-tin last /
summer The doughnut is 20 blame"
THE doughnutI" exclaimed Cutting. How in !
the name Of goodness did the doughnut hgure?" |
How did it not fgure?" said Penrose, sadly. |
'1t is long tale. melancholy tale to me- /
though doubt not you VIII Singer with glee, |
IS is your wont over the misfortunes Of others |
But I VIII Iry TO tell you
TO begin at the beginning, the novelists |
used 10 DO in the good old days Of the three |
decker. you must know that the great farm !
house and its adjoining cottage in B has
long been taken each summer by almost the |
same crowd Of people Summer after summer
they have tramped together up the mountain
behind the house and picnicked its top, IN
sight Of the grand sweep Of the Presidential
Range. Summer after summer they have jour
neyed up 10 GorhaIn and made the trip up WASH
ingtor through Adams Ravine. Summer after
summer they have gone through Grafton Notch
on buckboards to the Rangeley Lakes and
smiled with annual exclamations Of JOY the
mingled odor Of pines and fresh water ana
summer evening after summer evening they
have sat in the big parIor and listened while one
read aloud or played cards. or discussed topics
Of interest in the most idyIlic spirit Of brother
" and sisterly love. The food was good, the
beds good. the company coed, the air and seen
e-v superlative. It the IDEAL
And il would have remained for all time
II the doughuut had not entered last July, IKE
a free thinking parson in an oldtine church' OF
like the devil in Kiplings poem TO cause scllisi
disruption, open hostility
You see, the party was about equally ol'lueu
geographically. A score of US came from New
York o- Southeastern Connecticut, and score,
the rest Of the crowd. came from the vicinity
Of Boston. There was music critic in the
New-York division, who once wrote pooK Oh
Wagner IN the big front bedroom Of the MAN
fo1se and had to keep that room forever after
because anybody else who tried II hao pau
dreams He and were leaders on our sioe Ii
fhe controversy that arose / don say tn1s III q
toastipg spirit: far from il. l have always Oeen
600 -saav +o debate on all occasions, and TINS
time I paid high for my fault But uulh coIn-
pefs me TO admit that was leader
The Boston party, naturally enough, was
led nv q woman and very young anu SCI
assertiye young man just out Of Harvard Inc
roman was q spinster, not your comic paper
42oe+or tyne hut a stout handsome, witty, wei
dressed creature that suspected had IeiIlalie'
single from choice until one had learned her
uncomfortable controversial temperament Inc
xourp man was beneath notice, one would Ike
IN soy ONLY one cannot He would never Slay
beres-b notice. He was the best swimmer lne
hest tennis and golf player, the best mountain
c1i-~f,a- 19e most accommodating rascal 10 Ae
,po-rar the best reader Of an evening. the best
1ool-ir.r man in the place. If he hadn't been
there I shouldn't have taken the opposIle sue
75d md
haTe'- ,
"yor might have What?" said Cutting
want the whole truth, now I'm IL Tor so MUCH
Of il I've plenty Of time.
well I might have somebody TO Darn lily
s+,cl+,rs for me If you must know, SAD ZEN
rose she was of the Boston party, mac Oeen
"a p every summer since she was q htle gin
I saw her GROW uTo into the finest girl On Cut
ting the finest altogether most aoorapie s1Ii
yo, eyer set eyes on! Why, if B were IN Tue
middle Of the desert it would be a summer par
s5f=e with her there And I came 10 love her'
as every man of sense has TO do told her So
one cav down by the Sunday River, and she
laughed and skipped a stone three tInes' ana
said she made my heart skip the same way
.7d she laughed still harder and said was al
Old 6ear-1hirk Of that you brute, and stop your
cva lalghiug,-she called me an old dear
though I'm not thirty-fve, or not much more
and she wouldn't say any more then; but was
harrv and hopeful / knew she never ca4ieo
that young Harvard Upstart an old dear