The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-19
PUBLIC PUTTING
OVER 1T S BLUFF.
Big Holiday Season Is On, and
s Thousands Are Leaving
Town.
MUST MAKE ONE BIG SHOW
Head Of the Family Stays at
Home to Dig for Butter
flies Abroad.

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Ffiehtened away by the recent high
temperature. Richmond people have
been leaving town in droves to find
rest and recreation and comfort during
the hot season which is coming along.
Reports from mountain and seasiic
resorts would make it appear that
cots are being placed in the billiard
rooms 10 accommodate the rush,
tnough II Is hardly as bad as that.
Almost everybody except Coorner Tay-
Tor is planning to get away.
more people are going abroad this
summer than ever before. Booking and
steamship agencies carry the names of
hundreds of Richmond folk many of
whom. however. go to Europe every
year. But there are new ones in the
list-men and women who have never
seen one thousandthi part of the glorieS
which this country provides. Leaving
Out the foreign travellers, there are
enough on the jump to fill good many
hoteis in Virginia, railroad records
showing that the business thus far is
ahead of that in 1910. There isn't much
society. In Richmond during the sum
mer months. Card games and dances
and pink teas are all very we'll in
winter, but there isn't much doing In
June
Tint Annual Problem.
Every year the man who handles
the family cash is perpleXed BY that
everlasting problem. Almost every man
working on a salary gets a vaca ton,
SO he. too, has to solve the problem
now ne can go away for two weeks
on $50. He must put up a front: he
must! run his bluff before he leaves
and when he comes home; and then
he must run that bluff at the resort. AS
a general thing, he sits around alone,
spends his money like a drunken
sailor. and then comes home, sorrow
ful and sad. But he thinks he gets
1t back in telling stay-at- homes how
high he new
The head of the family. who has
been skating along the thin ice all the
year, finds trouble indeed while ncgo-
uating loans for his whist playing
wife and his dancing daughter. With
absolutely nothing to do throughout
the twelve months. they lind the great
need of rest; they must have change
Of scene. new fields for gossip. So
the head of the family tags at home;
his system is thrown all out of whack
by cafe life, and then. while trying 10
make up the losses in a little honest
game of poker. he feels that the
double cross is fierce
Still. this is the season for the grand
bluff. There mus be clothes-some-
thing neat, but not gaudy. as the
monkey sa'd-there must be hats and
and those silk hose and high heels
without which no wardrobe is COM
plcte. M
And Those Awful Bills
Feeling the need of it and having
nerve. the holiday seekers find It
necessary to make big bills and all
the while that suffering husband and
father finds that filling an inside
straight is among the lost arts. The
merchant is put on the ice. He does
not throw good stamps after bad
money by mailing bills when every
body is away. so in the end 1t is worse
than Christmas
Being experienced men, burglars
never go away on a summer vacation.
They remain to rob. Homes which are
unoccupied are easy fruit though few
diamonds are found. The police always
have trouble during the hot months.
Sneak thieves develop into daring bur
glars; discharged servants step in,
pick up a few discarded garments, the
remnant OF a ham, few silver plated
spoons, and presto. the town has a
crime wave.
But summer resort owners and man
ayers are not in the business for their
health. They find that July and Au-
gust give coronation pickings; they
get all that is coming their way, and
they overlook no bets.
But they are off. The heavy travel
outward is under way. Percy. the rib
bon clerk, and Arthur. the expert soda
mixer. are dancing and bowling and
driving and Cabling. To hear their
chatter one would think that they are
the sons of millionaires. They are
simply part and parcel of that elc-
ment which is putting over the annual
summer bluff