Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17

who makes it practice TO
kid himself into believing
that "home in summer is better than any
fool summer resort'-tiS about now
abouts, as above stated, that he's losing
faith in his shbboleth and beating it to
the railroad station.
You've heard him.
There used to be more of him than
there are now. Washington used to
abound with him much more aboundfully
than at present. He used to write let
tiers to the Washington papers dilating
glowingly upon washington as Sum-
mer Resort" He never saw the joke In
the headline that was slapped over his
letter. He really believed. as some of him
still believe, that Washington was or IS
a summer resort, just as there are highly
respected persons living in Richmond
let us say who believe that Richmond
will do fer a summer resort
But we're not going to be personal at
all or talk about any particular city or
cities in this little Conversations ABOUT
the city dweller who claims that the city
has got it on the summer resorts in sum-
mer-up to a certain time and point.
During the early part of the summer
getaway season, he watches the depart
ing folks bound for the hot weather re-
sorts with a grim grin.
What dye think of those rums?" is
what, in essence, he asks of you or of
the circumambient. What dye think
of 'em?"
You or the circumambent unquestion-
ably think that the departing ones are
lucky folks to be able to pick up and
hike at the first symptom of broilfulness;
that it's pretty soft for them and all that;
but you don't say so, not desiring to be
withered by the home-is-good-enough
me-in-summer person.
There they co. says he. beating 1t
with all their might for a lot of crazy
alleged or would-be summer resorts,
where they'll be stuffed into little dinky
rooms. where they won't get anything ut
to eat. where they won't have a nickel s
worth of comfort where the beds are ar
punk. where-oh, shucks, it's just piff-
ling to think about it, honest it is"
In your mind, when he's growing along
In this strain. you have mental images of
summer resorts that really are comfort
able; where, despite all of the perennial
persistence of the jokists and paragraph
ers, the rooms are not dinky, where the
food, instead of being unfit to eat. is
great, where the guests have all the COM
fort that's going. where the beds. far
rest Of the situation is lovely beyond
compare
And the home-is-good-enough
1n-summer person goes on, raspfuly,
away from the city in the summer time
do suffer from the heat, hey?"
You know different-entirely different.
You have disproved the messy maxims
of the funnyists. You know that there
are summer resorts where while tits hot
occa sionally, the average permeative
coolth is about one million times figura-
lively speaking. greater than the coolth
of any city whatsoever In the country.
You know perfectly we'll that If the sum-
mer resorts weren't cooler than the cities
why, they wouldn't be summer resorts,
despite the humoristical writer's. And all
the time he's talking you're hankerins
with a deep, almost painful hank to be at
some Of these summer resorts that you
know about. But you don't mention 1t to
the Stick-in- town-in-summer haranguer.
You know that 1t would be no use to do
that, and that he'll change his mind, be-
like. later on anyhow.
Look at what they misS!' he goes on.
Their nice spacy and breezy city houses.
with the wind blowing right through 'em
all the time; and their own bathtubs to
flop into and wallow in whenever they
feel like turning on the spigot; and eating
their meals in their pajamas or their
nighties il they want tor
Uh-huh. You listen on to him wheeZe
and rave. You know pretty we'll, of
course, that not all persons living in
cities-not all by a very great deal
have spacy and breezy houses with the
wind blowing through 'em all the time.
even when there is wind in the city's
summer. which is rare.
You know. additionally. that while
the home bath tub in the city is good
enough to flop into and wallow in when
you can't flop or wallow in one in the
mountains or at the seaside. If. indeed,
you don't flop in mountain streams
or wallow in the soulful sea-yOu know
very well that there are bath tubs at
the summer resorts that have got 1t
on the home bath tub nine hundred
and fourteen ways for serene joy and
satisfaction.
And you know. also. that. while he
raves about folks eating their home
meals while clad merely in their pa
jamas or their nighties. that you don't
consider that desideratum at all;
that. in fact. you don't regard such
thing as particularly nice or cunnin'
at all; that you'd heap rather endure