The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-02
AS DEAD AS
A DOOR NAIL
A Sunday Quietness Hangs
Over the City.
BUSINESS At A STANOST|LL
Merchants are Frolicking
at Cedar Point.
Merchants Come and Go Not Mt All
and Those Who are Left Behind
Endure Silence Which Is OPP
prcssivc.

Even the dogs felt the lonesome
ness which permeated the atmosphere
today.
The man who was so unfortunate as
to be left behind by the excursionists
dreamed of fishing excursions for a
time and then determined to try his
luck with the rod and reel.
Those who forgot 70 purchase meat
for the day became vegetarians from
necessity rather than from choice.
1t was a difficult matter to buy
match withJwhich to light a pipe and
there was not a man from whom
match could be borrowed or. begged
The lonesomeness was so dense
that 1t became oppressive and the
man who came up town looking for n
Sunday paper could be excused for
his mistake.
Business was at n standstlll while
the merchants of Marion frolicked at
Cedar Point and those who had to
stay at home frolicked by themselves
in the back yard or buried their noses
in pillows and covered their ears to
shut out the loud silence, and slept
Marion people who are used to the
hustle and hustle which Dcharacterizes
the city can now sympathize with
| their brothers and sisters who lead
the less strenuous life in cities where
every strange face Is noted with curl
osity and where the hum of wheels
| and of business is not heard. Shake
speare's words, "The merchants come
and go less frequently" should be
changed to read, "The merchants
come and go not at ALL"
Do not make too much sport OF the
| man who tomorrow will come down
street and ask you whether you at
| tended church yesterday. 1t would
| be no objectionable error and you
should consider him only as a poor un-
| fortunate who was not permitted to
| go on the excursion.
There Is this consolation, however
| This is the only day in the year with
| the exception of Sundays when Ma
rion is not busy busting little city.
| All of the other business days are busy
| ones and this Is doubtlessly response
BILE for the oppressiveness of the lone
someness.
| "Sale Lock Rcigns."
| Marion Is the sure. enough deserted
village today. It's the day of the reign
of the YaIe Lock and strictly closed
door policies prevail throughout the
city. Merchants Excursion day and
you have Miss Marion about as inhos-
pitable lc.'i ing as any lady on the map.
For then II Is her shop keeper HE
themselves off 70 some sylvan spot to
spend i'm riotous living a small slice of
the profits accrIeing from the people
lduring the other three hundred and
lsiXty-four days ct living.
The buk of the exodus is to Cedar
Point, tine official goal for playday
Here, in the congenial atmosphere of
the Coney Island of the West are all
the lures of the dime and nickle, the
lavowed medium of exchange at the
Point. There are fields of ice cream
cones, lakes of red lemonade (with a
stick I'm It or all stick, as you please)
all kinds If speed thrillers, the haunts
of the souvenier sellers whose ware
will kick around the house lin every
bodys way for the next year, the smell
and sizZle of the hamberger sandwich,
and the last but not least, the beach
where little wavelets lave the heat
tired bodies in funny abbreviated or
roomy bathing suits, and the sun gets
the nose of the unsuspected victim a
nice lobster Snaue OF reu III pfepara-
ton for tomorrow's peel. But what
care the merry merchants? Their pic
; mic baskets are buldging with the best
, of their own wares, and II not-anyone
. lean get a rice meal at the breakers fol
two or three hundred dollars.
: A man on Center street today sor,
of slanks along he ought to apologize
Ifor his presence He ought to be ar
rested for disturbing the peace.
II What do we eat? Well If the kitchen
Ilsafe hasn't been stocked up it's our
Ifor ice cream sodas and sundaes. AM
1.-THE dear women will have to forge
III their slashed down midsummer bar
gain sales for a whole day. Honestl!
| the quiet is so dense you could breal
Hit up in chunks. Just like living II
Gallon.
But watch you pocketbooks to-
morrow when the rejuyenated mer
| chant gets back from his frolic. Tn
first thing you know you'll be shaking
the pennies out of the baby's banl
Ito slip It to the butcher or the bake
or the candle stick maker, so warn
Twill be his welcome and so convincin
This line OF talk after the fun fling a
IlCedar Point or some other playground
More than a thousand tickets u
| the Point were sold at the Union Sta
Iltion. One full train and another O
J four coacnes steamed perkily ava