Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-04
PLAYING GOING AWAY

The man with the armful OF summer re-
sort literature smiled when friend &C
costed him and glanced curiously at the
bundle OF printed matter.
Trying to figure out what this stuff Is z
he said to the accosting friend. ''Well, It's
summer trip stun. Mighty well written. as
a rule. Good deal OF 1t enticfngly Illus
trated. I've got bales of it. but there's
new and attractive trip stuff coming out
all the time. and my wife and l like to keep
up to date on the new trips.
You see, this Is about the time Of the
year when my wife and 1 begin to make
what we call our little imaginary visits
to the summer resorts. You and your wife
ever try that? It's a great scheme. Inc
next best thing to going away for the sum
mer Is to play going away. only get two
weeks vacation year. generaily a. tnS
latter part of September and then WiIe anu
l go up to quiet little place we know OF
in the Blue Ridge. and climb hills and drink
milk and eat yellow-legged chickens and
sleep good deal Of the time ms lsn
saying. though, that we wouIon IKE 70
take in all of the summer resorts, one alter
the other II such a thing were in the cares.
But it's not, and so we just begin TO pay
taking 'em all in as soon as the not
weather sets In.
the dinner dishes have all been cleared
away and I've got my pipe a-going. sup
posing we take little run up 10 tne
Thousand Islands2 think both or US neeo
little change, ana We peeu oo,,ntry
friends that the Thousand Islands country
Is lovely. .,,,,
Very WELL reply to her. when
would you like to start?
Immediately, says she. seriously.
40. k say 1. I'm agreeable. Anything
for your pleasure. All aboard! anu then
slip up to where she's got the summer re-
sort literature all neatly filed away. anu
pull out the three or four pounos OIL pooh
let's and maps and things from the drawer
that she's labeled: Thousand Islanas
II take the stuff down stairs and dump
It on the floor, and then we both SIT ooWh
on the floor and begin to look over the pc
lures in the booklets. and play tnat we re
really seated on the grassy SWaIo OF o'ie VI
those fairy islets. with the cool woouy
evening breeze in our faces ana tne NV
whispering of the clear emerald waters IA
our ears We know that the evening Dree1e
up around the Thousand Islands fs cooi
and woody and that the clear eliei alo
waters have habit Of whispering, pe ena ,,s
the reading matter of the booklets tells US
so. Often as not, this same text written
around the beautiful photographers con-
tains some Canadian voyageurs evening
song, and when we run across one vi snIe';
why my wife gets to grooming q Wnllhsicas
air of her own deviSing to mt the Worus %
the song, and then, by George l can nsAl.,
close my eyes and just imagine that M oi,
the grassy sward of one of the ThouSano
Islands sure enough. You've no idea now
one of these little play-trfps up AROUND
that beautiful region cools OH tue a. .ti
phere Of our somewhat warm AIuo ei'''As
room. -. s,agast a
Next evening it's my turn TO Suggest
trip: aa.r, cav to my
wife I'm becoming deuced urea oI the-'o
conventional trips that we've been making
every summer. Tired Of Atlantic CITY ana
Rar Harbor, and Newport, and Narrasan-
sett and the St Lawrence ana Lake Snaiii
plain, and all of those places Wnele va
have to take our forty and odd TRUNKS, anu
keen dressed up all the time, changing our
clothes five or six times a day. anu an
that. Tell you what l suggest we 40. Lei
go up to a wild part Oh the A oh,o iodae
End take a nice, big. comfortable ioose
there for the summer, and nave d Eoou
downright rest-sort o camp OUT anu a.
with all the comforts or nome "haI az
you say to that? Io lin an.
nretands that she is a bit disconcerteo py
the suggestion ,,,ob, she re-
niles. a bit reluctantly, just 10 iIhpai go,
piU pr ~ The SITUATION But, If 1 had known
that Won would want me TO pury mySeit
for the summer in such wiz, ua. hava
yay Mace why, certainly Wouiuti il,
hsgrp, to have summer dresses mace away
Isl Fabr,ary-'deed l wouldn t.. here We
gone and had made at least ptteen per
fectIy lovely dresses. thinking ma w
would go to the seashore as usuai TINS YEA a.,
md of course If we take lodge III tIIS
Adirondacks. i won't be able 10 wear one
Of them. and the styles are bound 10 pc III III
different next year, and SO they WIN an
wasted I'll have to give them al u <Aiii'-''
my French maid at. .,.+
oh. don't let a little thing IKE tnat
bother YOU tell her. Let Anita nave tue
dresses by all means. You can get mo- I,
naxt YEAR. The Adirondack trfp'H DO us
both a world of good. Like to start rlgh'
away? A., a.. of the
ACKNOWLEDGES seems to grow upon me, says
INV wife and then 1 skip upstairs ana graz
ont of the drawer set aside Tor tnat pun
nose the big bundles OF booklets ABOUT INC
beauties of the Adirondack region Ihen
&c Cit down cross-legged on the mating
and lust go to the Adirondacks, see! we
look at all those pictures OF the spieholu
enormous log lodges, with their me IN
teriors-skins and antlers all around the
libraries. and fine hide rugs on the foors,
and all that-and then my wife pretends
to shudder. , bou borsa
Jacket closer around her-although in rea1-
tv it's hotter'n Tophet in our little sittihs
room-.My, but it's getting chilly In mere.
I'm afraid we picked out place with 700
high an altitude. Perhaps you had better
throw another log or two on the CRATE IN
the hall 49,,
DAYS. IL things ever happen to come my
way, I hope to give the little wife the sure
enough honest-and-truly trips to all OF
these places that. thus far. we've only
visited by booklet; but until that time
comes / guess maybe we don't have run
lust playing at going away, that's all!