The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-21

Ducks" said l. 1.-THE songs of
swans are for luckier ears, They swim
and curve their necEs in artificial lakes
on the estates Of the wealthy TO delight
the eyes of the favorites OF fortune. I"
''Also in Central Park" said North
"to delight the eyes of immigrants and
bummers, Two seen 'em there lots of
times. But why are you in the city
so late in the summer7'
''New York City, [ began to re
cite, ''is the finest sum-
"No, you don IT, said North en-
phatically. You don't spring that old
one on me. / know you know better.
Man, you ought to have gone up with
us this summer. The Prestons are there,
and Tom Volney and the Monroes and
Lulu Stanford and the Miss Kennedy
and her aunt that you liked so well, y
- never liked Miss kennedy's
aunt / said.
~ didn t say you did, said North.
"We are having the greatest time we
ever had. The pickerel and trout are
so ravenous that / believe they would
swallow your hook with a Montana
copper-mine prospectus fastened on it,
And we We a couple of electric launches;
and I'll tell you what we do every
night or two-we tow a rowboat be-
hind each one with big phonograph
and boy to change the discs in 'em.
On the water, and twenty yards behind
are passably good roads through the
woods where We go motoring. |
shipped two cars up there. And the
Pineclff Inn is only three miles away.
You know the Plneclifr. Some good
people are there this season, and we
run over to the dances twice week.
Can't you go back with me for week,
old man?'
L laughed. "Northy,n said I-"if ]
NAV be so familiar with Il millionaire,
because I hate both the names Spencer
and Grenvile-your invitation is meant
kindly, but-the city in the summer
time for me. Here, while the bour-
geoisie is away. l can 1.-Two as Nero
Iived-barring. thank heavou, the fd-
dling-while the city burns at ninety
III the shade. Tho tropics and the
zones wait upon mo like handmadens.
sit under Florida palms and eat
electrically couiured up, blows upon
me his Arctic breath. As for trout,
YOU know. yourself, that Jean, at Mau-
rice 8, cooks them better than anyone
else in the world
"Be advised. - said North, "My
chef has pinched the blue ribbon from
the lot. He lays somo slices of bacon
inside the trout, wraps it all in corn
husks-the husks Of green corn, you
covers them with live Goals. We build
fires on the bank of the lake and have
fish suPpers,,
ants bring down tables and chairs and
damask cloths, and you eat with silver
forks. ! know tho kind Of camps that
YOU mlIonaires have And there are
the wild flowers, and, no doubt.
Madame Tetrazzini to sing in the boat
PAVILION after the trout. -
nOh, no said North. conc ernedIy.
1--WE were never ms bad ms that. We
did have Il variety troupe mp from the
city three or four nights. but they
weren't stars by as far as light can
travel in the same length Of time. |
always like few home comforts even
me you prefer to stay in the city dur
ing summer. 7 don Z believe it, If YOU
do, why did YOU spend your summers
there for the last four wears, even
sueaking away from town on "a night
train, and refusing to tell your friends
whore this Arcadian village was!',
"Besanse,i said j, they might
But since then I have learned that
Amaryllis has como TO town. The cool
est rnings, the freshest, Che brightest.
fhe choicest are to be found in tho
city. IF you'v nothing on baud this
evening I win show YOU.
II IN free, said North, land |
have my light car outside suppose,
since YOU We been converted 10 the
town, that your idea Of rural snort is
20 have a little whrl between bicycle
cops in Central Park and then II wmg
If sticky ale in some stulfy rathskeller
under fan that can Z stir up as many