The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-22
ifEefJ- Ss rr A HOUSE PARTY.

The Recipe Has a Palatable Sound
 Like Something Good to Take.
 To make one is simple. You take some houses tfurnished), little land, | some waterNi if procurabIe, food, drink, | a few horses; motor-cars, and sail | boats, according to taste or income, add from six to a dozen young persons of assorted genders, stir with a ther- mometer, and go and sit in cool place. The house party does all the rest, plays tennis er golf, drives, notes, goes swimming, has picnics, sleeps, is regular at meals and animated in dis course. At least, it should be anifat- ed in discourse. If it isn't, you've made mistake somewhere. But almost al- ways it is, and in return for your work in keeping the machinery running you have wonderful opportunities for improving and rejuvenating observa- tion. You hear also some of the new est terms of speech and some of the new songs. And you get back to nature in one of its most edifying phases, for have we not the testimony of ancient philosophers that there is nothing in nature more interesting than the. way of man with maid unless it is the way of maid with man.
 As for the grown-people who try ito | get the flavor of summer, not by proxy, but at first hand, they do va
 rious things, A lot of them gos to Europe. What they do there I do not know, nor has it ever been satisfac- l torily expounded to me. It has ceas- ed to be good form for Americans to dwell on the details of their experi-
 ences in Europe. When l was there
 it was fall and not much doing. Yet | 1t was pleasant. dare say it is pleas
 ant in summer, else folks would not
 struggle over there in such droves as
 they do, making American house par
 ties at all the hotels.
 Some grown-up people live on yachts
 in summer. The seat is a part of nature
 and undoubtedly worth getting back to, though here is force in Conrad's lcriticism of yachting as being only an
 amusement of life, whereas the mer-
 chant service, he says, is life itself.
 The strong bond of the sea, the fellow
 ship of the craft, does not exist, he say
 between yachtmen as it does between
 men who seriously follow the sea for 8
 living
 Still, yachting is delightful when tn,
 market has gone your way, and if you
 can get back to nature in a motor car you can in a yacht.
 , Yachts, though, are not for the
 many. You get great deal more of
 nature for your money in a garden. It
 needn't be a great garden either, bu it had better be the same one every summer. You make gardens grow by
 sticking to them, and poking things
 into the ground in successive years Next to child or a young person a
 garden is the most helpful summer
 property and folks of thrift in irdi nary circumstances ought to havt both
 Many people see more in garden, that is worth seeing than most people : seen on yachts. I have known case! . where gardens ministered more effec tually to some peoples civilization thal Europe did to others. The things abou IclVlltzation that people can spend summer in Europe without finding ou 7 would fill books.
 About century ago there was year hereabouts that was known a ] the year without summer. In tha = year snow fell in every month. Tn l people didn't like it.
 . summer is popular, deservedly, think, though reviled at times when i is too hot,-E. s. Martin in Golfers.