Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-07-31
the OUTING FAD.
Comfort Versus Misery-And all
for Style.

The outing fad has never been
so widely prevalent as at present,
and the person who fails to Sc
cure the priv ilege of few weeks
rest from his labors, during the
summer usually considers HIM
self badly treated individual.
1t is right and proper that this
privilege should be extended and
that the rest is almost necessity,
if one would do ones best at work
the remaining eleven months OF
the year, is acknowledged by all.
1t is, however, more of a fad
with many, than necessity or a
pleasure. People who do not do
enough work at any time to keep
their blood in circulation, pack
up at the right season and rush
to seaside hotel for an "out-
ing," simply to be in fashion,
and nothing else.
Be it said to the credit of Cor
wallis people, few take to the
''summer hotel'' for their vaca-
ton rest, but instead they seek
the mountain shade, the mineral
springs or the seaside, where they
pitch their tents and live the
''life simple" !" securing the
change and rest so much needed.
The following clipped from an
exchange, gives one mans ex-
perience:
zone of the most prevalent of
the many forms of insanity that
afflict this htful American peo-.
pie is the habit of going every
summer to a place called sum-
mer hotel. This term rhymes
nicely with its right title.
"The ostensible- object of this
common midsummer madness is
pleasure. This would be a joke
if it were not so sad. The pleas
ure in the game is deferred. 1t
comes next winter when, before
our CHEEKY freside or within our
snug fat, we chuckle and breathe
deep signs OF content to know
that, even though the janitor
treats US like dogs, we are not at
a summer hotel anyway.
81 was once a patient in sum-
mer hotel for what the calendar
said was two weeks. 1t seemed
longer than four years term 1
once served in the city council.
My wife was with me. The only
thing 1 have against her, is that
she is associated in my mind
with those two weeks.
1--WE paid our board for three
weeks in advance, as our bag
gage didn't look good to the
clerk. But at the eud of two
weeks, in spite of the fact that l
felt bound in honor to fulfill my
contract and stay, the tempta-
ton to fly was toS great. l had
lost enough weight to make hy-
ing easy, only l feared 1 was not
dirisible. So, one night when
all was as near still as it gets in
one or these madhouses, when
somebody was apparently using
the untuned piano-forte in the
parlor as a spring-board and
blonde girl with a hand-turned
voice was giving an unintention-
al imitation of an autobobile
born in the crowded street, and a
game of bridge whist among the
drugstore albiuos was making it
self heard above all the rest, we
let our trunks down from the
windows with ropes, tobogganed
the fire escapes, and ran two
blocks to a railway station.
While we waited at the country
whistling post tor the train that
was to take US back to home aud
freedom we clung to each other
and listened for the baying of the
porters and be!lboys and cham
bermaids that had been sicked
upon our warm trail When our
escape had been noted. 1t was
almost as unpleasant, for half an
hour or so, as if we had stayed
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