The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-26
Did Anybody Say Anything About
The Large Troop of Vdcdtion-eers


! THEY were discussing that ever in
teresting topic, the high cost of liv-
! L ing, and he was denouncing the
soaring aspirations of foodstuffs, wher
she observed quietly that she thought the
vacation habit had something to dc
with it, ts
Vacation habit of people, you mean?'
he corrected to which she said Mo-;
that what she meant was-things.
How do you suppose people could ever
reconcile themselves to living in one hot
stuffy, apartment or house, if everything
didn't occasionally go on perfectly good
vacation?"
| Just what do you mean%' he asked.
ITO be specific" she replied, 1.-The first
things in anybody's house to go on a va
cation in the good old summer time dixie
| little Jane), is the blankets! The first
moth that appeared sent these big, woolly
| things a-vacationing. They went Skin
mshing to the cleaners, and when they
came home they took a nice, comfortable
place in the big cedar chest in the attic
| until cold weather calls them out again,
when they appear as fluffy and fuzzy and
as entirely rejuvenated as Aaunt MaryI
OF course, it has cost something, but ii
is well worth the price to see them look
ing SO well and fit
The furs go, although some foolish
women in order to be stylish try to weat
these hot, stuffy things all during ths
summer" she went on. Fur trinlmes
tailor-mades, fur hats, muffs and boas
all go marching hand-in-hand to the cold
storage resorts for the heated term. They
come trooping along with the rest of the
family at Thanksgiving time and are well
coined for the week-e end party with great
glee and gusto.'
Next the lace curtains join the vaca-
tome GERS" she continued, las they are the
all-summer guests of the dry cleaners
and stretchers who darn and mend them
against a background of Brussels net.
Critical rugs go into retreat in moth
proof warerooms, and are forgotten by
the world by the time the lilacs are in
bloom and remain dead until the furnace
fires are relighted. AS the domestic staff
is released one by one the solid silver OBJ
tains a leave of absence and goes away
to spend three months or more in tie
exclusive social circles of some big Mil
nionaire Trust company's safety vaults
BY and by it is discovered that the
rubber plants are pining for change of
environment, and off they are whisked to
the florists" she said, who for a neat
little consideration accept them as guests
at his dollhouse sanitarium Some people
take chance of placing them under big,
shady trees in the front yard, but this
method doesn't seem to agree with them,
as we'll as a real vacation spree away
from home" The only thing that doesn' t
have real vacation is the canary bird
and the cat. They are the perfectly good
stay-at-homes, the left-behinds, as it
were, and the poor little birds have nd
company as the big yellow cat prowls
about during the day and the night time
seeking whom or what he may devour.''
Nothing is left to keep body COM
pany," she continued, "as the boys have
gone to join the summer colonies in the
eats and the girls have also been placed
in some camp far away from home and
the two lone members-father and mother
deciding that it is absurd to keep the
big house open for just two people, fill up
the gasoline tank of the new touring car
and like the Arabs without even as much