The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-24
THE FUN SOME WOMEN GET IN
 GOING OFF SUMAlERlNG

When first we practice to deceive!"
 This fall when you happen to meet Mrs. Snob you must mot believe all that she tells you of the glorious time she and hey daughters have had the past summer as you. who have had to be a stay at home listen with a twinge of envy. They did not spend any length of time at any one of the fashionable hotels, she will tell you, but just motored about where fancy willed- d-seeing the country, getting the fresh air and getting to all the points of interest. She can tell you all about any fash: onable resort you inquire for and of the people who are wont to go there.
 The average wife, after her call upon Mrs. Snob, walks home feeling as blue as indigo, often raking her spouse unmercifully over the hot coals Of her dispfeasure to give her sum mer outing when he was earning quite as much salary as the husband Of Mrs. s. He tries to figure it out, but cannot, declaring, at last, that the wife must have private means in or- der to afford such a trip.
 A Mrs. Snob and her daughters were the first in their set to board up their home and fit away, leaving the place in charge of a caretaker." as they took pains to impress upon her friends. No one saw them go. They, announced they intended starting in the early dawn the cool of the morn ing. MT. Snob, who declared himself toV be in the hands of the caretaker, always turned the conversation when asked as to where his family was at that time or if he intended to join them as though the friendly inquiries
 made him extremely uncomfortable and i'll at ease.
 Most men are not good at subter- fuge dodging questions. In the depths Of his heart poor s. was nightly ner- vous over the subject of his family's outing. The family servants had been sent away until the fall, but instead of enjoying a glorious outing his wife and the girls had shut themselves up behind the barricaded door. making martyrs of themselves and upsetting home life and its comforts for pride.s Aake Mrs. Snob couldn't save cent to go away. bvt not for worlds would she let her friends guess that they were in such hard straits. It was no JOAO z " D0 iulpl1oOIlCu WlluAA I4lUSo four terribly hot walls but it was the payment pride expected.
 Mother and the girls took turns i'm doing the cooking. bedmaking, wash ing and sweeping, the washing being hung out piece at time and i'm an angle of the yard where it would not attract attention. The girls took turns in do4ning cloak and veil and slipping out after dark to do their marketing in far away shops where they were not known. Before their imposed self Imprisonment had begun, mother had
 'itten far and wide for literature concerning the summer resorts F1oods of handsome illustrated booklets and pamphlets and marked copies of ne-.s- papers as to the prominent guests being then entertained inundated them. Getting together and reading about the fine times other people were having was all the pleasure the Snob family got out of their summer. How. much better it would have been 10 keep the house open, aired and running in it's usual fashion, re- marking they had decided to summer at hon for a change, than to go to Iunnecea7 7ary torment or the sake of keeping up the appearance of havinb means More than one summer shut .- derives her sole pleasure in writing for booklets of fashionable places Rreading them over and over. day dreaming she is here or there, one of the gay, happy, giddy summer vaca- tionists,