The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18
WOMAN'S
COLUMN
HOUSE PARTIES
ARE MADE EASY

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To make one Is simple. You take
some houses lfufnished). little land,
scme water II procurable. food. drink,
4 few horses. motor cars and sail.
boats. according to taste or income,
add from six to a dozen young per-
sons Of assorted genders, stir with a
thermometer and go and sit In cool
place, Is the receipt given by e. 8.
Martin in Golfers Weekly. The
house party does all the rest; plays
tennis or golf. drives. notes. goes
swimming, has picnics, sleeps, is reg.
ular at meals an animated in dis.
course. II 1t isn't. you've made a mis-.
take somewhere. But almost always
y is, and In return for your work in
keeping the machinery running, you
have wonderful opportunities for i'm
proving an retuyenating observation.
You hear also some OF the newest
terms OF speech and some OF the new
songs. And yon get back to nature
in one Of It's most edifying phases,
for have we not the testimony Of an.
ciear philosophers that there is moth
Ing in nature more Interesting than
the way Of a man with maid unless
r Is the way Of q maid with man.
As FOR the grown people who try to
get the favor OF the summer, not by
proxy, bur al first hand, they do va
rinas things. A lot OF them go to
Europe. What they do there / do
NOT know, nor has it ever been salts
fscforily expouuded to me. 1t has
ceased to be good form for Ameri-
T:ans TO dwell ON the details of their
experiences in Europe. When was
there It was fall and not much doing.
Yet it was pleasant. dare say 1t is
pleasant in summer. else folks would
not struggle over there in such droves
m they do. making American house
parties at all the hotels.
Some grown-up people live on
yachts in summer. The sea is a part
Of nature and undoubtedly worth get
ting back TO, though there is force
In Comrades criticism of yachting as
being only an amusement of life,
whereas the merchant service, he
zzys, is life itself. The strong bond
Of the sea, the Fellowship of the craft,
does not exist, he says, between
Jaciirsmen as 1t does between men
EIro seriously follow the sea for a
living.
Still. yachting is delightful when the
market has gone your way, and If you
ran get back to nature in motor car
yum rrn In a yacht.
Yachts !. though. are not for the
many. Yo'r get great deal more of
mature for your money in garden.
II needn't be great garden either,
hut II had better be the same one ev.
err summer. You make gardens
Eruw by sticking to them, and poking
things into the ground in successive
ycasg Next to child or a young
rason a garden is the most helpful
GUNNER property and folks Of thrift
In ordinary circumstances ought to
lave both.
Nanny people see more In gardens
nsat Is worth seeing than most people
zee Gun yachts. have known cases
xtsFe gardens ministered more effec-
rusIly to some peoples civilization
than Europe did to others. The things
ahnus civilization that people can
spend summer in Europe without
finding out would fill books.
Anout century ago there was a
yrzr hereabouts that was known as
the year without a summer. In that
yesr SNOW fell in every month. The
people didn't like it.
sanmer is popular, deservedly, l
think, though reviled at times when
It s too hot