Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-13
AN IDEAL SUMMER RESORT.
DREAMS OF A VACATION

away the morning hours Rut. on tho v,r,
| next morning | want TO throw open n,
! broken, ha!t-hinged shutters OF an Id
Wlstaria- covered farmhouse. and smell he
uew on the GrapeNines. and listen to n.
a, big bold robins emitting their bcll-toncs nv
incline the ear to the plaintive call of No
SOD W Mites down I'm the copse through
winch the little blackberry -burdered r!vtie,
| flows 'e'
i want to ride on one OF those big p,o-
pe''erS or the great lakes on which ma
| lree-men-j ously proper and vogue-lsh fslk
from the middle west dress for dinner a.
| they call 1.-THE vucue-ish Young men MI
| Ting on TuXes or fuil-dress suits as they
respectively and severaly term such gar
| m"ntS. and the young women their low-
hecked dresses'-as they. too. term appa.el
OF that kind-just for the sake of watching
now some Vacatonzing Americans some
"htt inclined to priggishness can and Will
MAKE themselves miserable instead OF IN
| joying themselves. But very soon after lint
| KIND OF ride with the vogue-ish ones from
heokuk and oskaloosa III Ike t. sprawl
around on the deck of a measlv- looLius. NJ
4 tie puny -wufy of a tuSboat-me dlkrd cIt
IN Il suit OF dunearees and again smoking
'ildt satisfying corncob pipe and Ginning
| with the fireman off watch
From Honk- to Dobbin.
| Il want to hike around. doing forty knots
an hour on motor car as big as A cali
fornia fruit freight car. making three or
! four big cities a day: but as n counter
irritant TO that, Ia like. very soon after
! climbing out of the buzz-wagon. To take a
| long ride with some sage old farmer or, the
/ rom Sta' OF ms wagon listening 10 him tell
| me now the Teller that owned that forty
yonder across the crick had hlowed ON the
gas up to the city last week and come
| almighty nigh goin' to his great reward;
and, while progressing slowly along in n
/ a "a i'm hs1,.f
! the time to treat the nostrils TO whiffs of the
! taSse!eu corn and the fON-grapes lining the
road and those Araby perfumes that steal
! upon the air just after a field of tall grass
| has been made into hay
AFTER a forenoon spent at some ornate
casino, with the butterflies fluttering about
. ana schefhinS and striving to get away from
tne normal human and the heart of old
mother Nature I'd like to trudge down 10
some llttle village post office in the cool Of
the evening, where all OF the wholesome
boys and girls assemble and watch them
make the goo-goo eyes at each other, and
lrlsk and frivol around like natural human
peihgs; or down TO the dee-po when the
! through train hesitates at the same village
Tor an instant, to watch the same young
people gaze wistfully at the loling would
be superior people in the Pullmans and TO
observe how the repressed dream of exist
ence some time or other I'm the great
cities, where those Pumanites come from.
MINIS the eyes of the village young folk as
they stand and watch the crack train be-
come smaller and smaller down the track.
Il want TO hZ-giS around for a short SPACE
In some Italian garden in the Berkshire
| hills watching the graceful swans pree n
themselves and studying the habits of the
orchids That are suffered to nger in the
outer air for little brief space. But di-
rectly after that. l want to stand alongside
some old farm pond, watching the fool
| barnyard ducks dress their breast feathers
| with their bills and studying the habits of
| the rugged, do-or-die red and white holly
| hooks that never ask to be coddIed in hot
| houses. but fight their way through tail
| youth and age with no more encouragement
or pampering than 'Pache papoose gets.
From Surf to "Crick."
Il want to breast the breakers and en-
| gage in the customary showing-off act OF
| how strong 1 am down where the white
| piers project into the billowy sea- but HIT
| tie later l want to stink down to some old
| inland swimmin' hole in the cool of the
! evening carrying a crash towel with me
under my coat, and then just peel to the
buff and walow around like n rhinosceros--
or, better Ike a real human being: and
| dress under the shade of a big gnarled oak,
with the roots sticking out of the ground
all around and the lazy. Illuminating. twi-
| lght-lowing cattle watching the proceed
ings from the daisy-starred meadowsacross
the stream.
II want to mosey around. for little
space on a dead-swell Lake ChamplaiI1
houseboat. 1877 feet over all, with automatic
harps set in the walls, and Roman awnings
stretched from the fore peah to the miZzel1
| rail. and young persons in dlmities and or
CANDIES and things tripping around trying
| to talk like the people in The House Of
Mirth.' But after that | want to climl
! over the side of some old houseboat. about
| nine feet long, with room. and with q
| tired mule to propel 1t when it's due &c
move anywhere. and | want to cook my
! own bacon and eggs and flapjacks and cot.
fee on that, and loll around on the roof of
| it in just enough clothes to keep me from
| getting pinched by the suburban authori-
| ties, and-and just have fun. that's all.
But. | say. I'm up against 1t. j can't
get all of these things that I want-and
| am perfectly willing to acknowledge. herd
and now. that want heap that I'm never
| going to get-at any one place
That's why I'm inquirng why somS
| high brow with an imagination and a great
| deal of change to invest doesn't invent and
| inaugurate what l call a composite summer
resort
| IF I were to run across some LIBERAL
souled chap who'd be willing to do this. I'd
| be quite agreeable to sit down and draw
| him up sort of prospectus or list of things
| that the average human. with only about a
| month of vacation time and limited bank
| roll. would like TO have at the kind of COM
posite summer resort that i am thinking
| about.
1T wouldn't cost more than five or six
billion dollars to start such an all-around
| and inclusive resort. but look at the fun the
protector of such an enterprise would have
| In making others happy-me, for instance g.
But shucks. I'm wasting time. Here's
| letter from hotel man in Atlantic City
| who says he'll board my wife and myself
! for $1S a week. and I've got to write him
! letter asking for some details. Atlantic
! City? Yep. that's where we're going for
| the vacation. Knowing that and after lis
| tening to my plans for composite summer
resort for the last hour you figure on
for yourself the difference between what !
want and what am going to get"
CLARENCE l. CULLEN.