Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14

nervous old Dlack DOmDaZlne itules
screech Mad dogw and policemen be-
gin to shoot somebody is going to get
hurt. The man from Pompton, n. j.,
who always wears an overcoat In July
had turned up in a Broadway hotel
drinking hot Scotches and enjoying bis
annual ray from the calcium. Philan'
thropists were petitioning the legisla'
ture to pass bill requiring builders to
make tenement fire escapes more com
modious, so that families might die all
together Of the heat instead Of one or
| two ut a time. So many men were tell
ing you about the number Of baths
they took each day that you wondered
how they got along after the real lessee
Of the apartment came back to town
and thanked 'em for Nlking such good
care Of it. The young man who called
loudly for cold beef and beer IN the
restaurant. protesting that roast pullet
and Burgundy were really too heavy fol
such weather. blushed when he met
your eye, for you had heard him all
winter calling in modest tones for the
same ascetic viands. Soup. pocket
books, shirt waists, actors and base
ball excuses grew thinner. Yes. II was
summer time.
A man stood at Thirtyfourth street
waiting for a downtown cara man
of forty, gray haired. pink faced, keen
nervous. plainly dressed, with harass
ed look around the eyes. He wiped
his forehead and laughed loudly When
a fat man with an outing look stopped
and spoke with him.
"No, sireew he shouted, with def
ance and scOrn. "None OF your old
mosquito haunted swamps and sky
scraper mountains without elevators
for me. When I want to get away
from hot weather I.know how to do 1t
| New York. sir, Is the finest summer
resort In the country. Keep in the
shade and watch your diet and don't
get too far away from an electric fan
Talk about your Adirondacks and your
Catskills! There's more solid comfort
| in the borough Of Manhattan than in
all the rest of the country together
No. stree! No tramplng up perpendlc'
ular cliffs and being walked up ut III
the morning by million flies and eat
ing canned goods straight from the city
for me. Little old New York will take
n few select summer boarders. Com
forts and conveniences Of homes-that s
the ad. that answer every time
"You need vacation" said the fat
man, looking closely at the other.
"You haven't been away from town
I'm years. Better come with me for
two weeks anyhow. The trout In the
Beaverkil are jumping at anything
now that looks like fly. Harding
writes me that he landed three pound
brown last week"
"NonsenseI cried the other man.
go ahead If you like and boggle
around In rubber boots, wearing your
self out trying to catch fish. When |
want one go to cool restaurant and
order It. | laugh at you fellows when.
ever think of you hustling around In
the heat In the country thinking you
are having good time. For me Fa-
ther Knickerbocker's little improved
farm with the big shady lane running
| through the middle Of It."
The fat man sighed over his friend
and went his way. The man who
| thought New York was the greatest
summer resort In the country boarded
car and went buzzlng down to his
office On the way he threw away his
newspaper and looked up at ragged
patch of sky above the housetops.
Three poundsw he muttered absent.
ly. "And Harding isn't liar. be-
lieve, II | could-but It's impossible
they've got to have another month
another month at least"
In his office the upholder Of urban
midsummer joys dived headforemost
into the swimming pool Of business
Adkins, his clerk, came and added a
spray Of letters, memoranda and tele-
| grams.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon the
busy man leaned back In his office
chair, put his feet on the desk and
mused aloud:
81 wonder what kind Of bait Harding
used?'
She was all In white that day. and
thereby Compton lost bet to Gaines.
Compton had wagered she would wear
light blue, for she knew that was his
iavorite color, and Compton was a mil
lionaire's son, and that almost laid
him open to the charge Of betting on a
sure thing. But white was her choice,
and Gaines held up his head with TWEEN.
ty-fye's lordly air.
The little summer hotel In the noun
tains had lively crowd that year.
There were two or three young college
men and a couple of artists and a
young naval officer on one side. On
the other there were enough beauties
among the young ladies for the CORE.
spondsnt Of society paper to refer to
them as "bevy." But the moon
among the stars was Mary Sewell.
Ea, ;, u:ir Of the young men greatly ue
'.pI 10 arrange matters $50 that ht
..li pay her millinery bills and d,
-. furnace and have her do away witt
-, SeweIl part Of her name forever
l...e who could stay only a week o.
=, went away limiting at pistols ant
.h.cd hearts. But Compton stayed
20 the mountains themselves, for h'
,..I afford it. And Gaines stayed be
..,.ae lie was fighter and wasn'
raid OF milliOnaires' sons. and-well
!, a;iorcd the country.
what do you think, Miss Mary?
:r said once. 81 knew duffer In New
,'ork who claimed to like 1t in the sum
.aer time; said you could keep coole
here than you could In the woods
Wasn't he an awfully silly? don
hink could breathe on Broadwa,
after the 1st of June"
Mamma was thinking Of going bac
week after next" said Miss Mary
with a lovely frown.
"But when you think Of It," sal
;aines, there are lots Of jolly place
town In the summer. The roo
yardens, you know, and the-er-th