The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-21
INC Summer T,onrtlcr.

By FRANCES COZ
The summer Bonrdcr.
OF course, this means thousands q
many many different degrees Of wealth and
position. and one has an opportunity
70 Judge Of them, for they. are out q
their habitat, away from home And
good idea OF wat Their names and
lives are like. the place and people
from whom they come; their point o.
view, dress. address, behavior, al !. de- l.,,
clare II. There are people who seem
to see in summer outing their op-
portunity for saying farewell to pro-
priety and refinement, not the putting
aside merely of extreme convention
atty. There are people whose breed
Ing and savoir fnire perfectly bear
y the best OF strange conditions, and q
crowd of entire strangers in big
public hotel which is a whispering
gallery. There are the trying creatures
who are always talking of what they
are accustomed to" usually very little,
and whose chronic dissatisfaction with
meals, service, weather, local condi-
tions becomes a great nuisance. And
there are the satellites, the pretty
merry young girls and the little chill
dren who ought to be invested with
Russia's "Order of Innocence, not to
speak OF the occasional maid who car
ries on chronic Irritation. with the
walters, and is nexcr to be found in this
country when she Is needed. The ratio
and quarreling. is always the inverse
one at watering places. The quiet man
who is rarely seen and still more rare-
ly heard. who lives down under big
tree with book In his hand. who
looks on in the ballroom for an hour
and goes to his bed early, Is likely to
be q parsonage in search of rest. ST.
ience. health. Sometimes he is bill
NnnQYrn a "A got I'm CT 10.
times Cabinet officer or foreign min
lister. The man whose political views
are heard IS from a megaphcne In the
teal Jokes are loud Xix ike His Clothes a
and whose appetite is terrific in guam
5tity and much lectured on us to
quality, is recognized with surprise, as
The retiring little woman In gray silk,
who Is so nice to everybody, is one
of the most socially important and
richest women in the country The
a bushel basket and q pink silk train
yards long. who snubbed her roundly
only yesterday. and proclaims her as
mot stylish" and that dowdy old
owner OF fashionable Philadelphia
restaurant. And so the play goes on.
1t Is really very amusing to locker
on-in-Vienna."
It is Vanity Fair. It is the world In
pettO.AE 5AHO JSu-t II u 5WOuueElul luluB
that in a week, everybody knows who's
who. Just as well as II they had ar
rived labeled: though. to be sure. this
Everybody" does not include the In
variable. mysterious person about
whom every one gossips, and whom
none can place?
1(he, Bank OF England Sweep.
I think 1T Is Thackeray who told OF !
g handsome. melancholy man of much
distinction Of manner. beautifully
n va y. trrt,
5plished. who lived in good style in
that huge Babylon OF London. enter
tanned in a solemn. splendid fashion
and was to be met at Baden Baden.
who turned out to be. when he died
mour Navnsour of Wilton Crescent. but
John Hodge. the sweep in front OF the
to be blind. lame and deaf. and who
left a tidy fortune OF 100000 for his
wife, who had been as much deceived
by him ars,an anybody When people
money out Of bank they are not in
frequently touched by the sight OF
Wretched beggar, and John Hodge got
the benefit of this natural benevolence
the city to Mrs Seymour Vavasour.5
lett his stand at every evening OF his
life and went. as Hodge to small
lodging house by the back entrance in
Leicester Square. emerged as Mr.. Va
vasour through the front door, paid
MS landlady regularly. tipped the maid.
deposited his savings in the Bank OF
ENGLAND once month. and lived hand
somely on his income, like any other
gentleman OF leisure, all the days Of
his life
Poole, the Tailor.
The pretensions of the people who
are so extremely careful about maxi
Ing new acquaintances'' arc usual
" amusing enough. Not In my
set in Baltimore. New York, Washing.
ton" Is speech that they feel to be
simply very absurd and fearfully i'll
bred. They are climbers and they
have to be careful of their gentility;
ae haxe even ana haYs 9Snlg late
once that Poole. the most fashionable
tailor IN England. decided to go hunt-
ing in Warwickshire. and as anybody
can follow the hounds in England, he |
might have had very, good sport had
soul always'shad -thirsted for social
distinctions so he was pleased to be
very much displeased by general
turnout urn OF the Warwickshire squire
the Earl of Hardwcke, who was mas.
ter OF the fox-hounds for the COUNTY
N his reply othis greeting: Fine day,
# !, Glad to see You out" well,
yes yes my y, lord the day is fine. and
what we have got; but the field is
mixed. very mlxed!" Pooh. noohi
Poole. you can't expect us all Ia ha
tallors, said Lord Hardwicke with a !
Lrown. and the laugh that followed
showed Poole that he had made the
mistake that such people invariably
make. = ~
Among Children.
It IS conical to see children PLAYING
the very, same game of class disi,nc,
ton In their own amusing fashion
There was once little Southern girl
IN Washington who. with her mother
was on visit to an old admiral
{. Every day after bath, breakfast the
Psalters for the day and lessons she
was allowed to go out to play in La
fayette Square. which was filled with
dozens OF other children. There she,
: met little girl from Maine. They
made great friends. They exchanged
4 coils, shared peanuts played hoop and
battledore. told Secrets and inspect
ed each others flnery with entire ap-
prevail. besides confiding to each other
all about their parents. home, families
ana past, Just as their elders do Final
gly little Faith Whitaker contided to
little Fanny Neville that she was
4 going to have big, big party, with
: the band of the Marine Corps to play,
and Ice cream. and lemonade and
pound cake. and Christmas Crackers
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