Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-25
INDOOR SUMNER SPORT
The Poor Man Actually Enjoys the
Fashionable Summer Resort

Fashionable Summer Resort
There are certain ultra-fashionable re-
sorts into whose proud purlieus we have
never expected to intrude our hobnailed
brogans. One of these until last Friday,
when what you might call a trade-wind
blew us there, was Narrow-Glance-a
Peers. That name in the society news
had always overawed us. We would
never have gone if we hadn't been asked.
But the big hotel was expecting us and
we were assigned to a room on the fourth
land top floor. Everybody else in the
house was a banker or a bankers wife
or daughter; for 1t was a convention, but
they needed a n-banker to talk to them
at table. The banker folk were nice, as
we expected them to be- for we long ago
discovered that there are bankers who are
yet poor enough to be awed by fashion,
able hotels Well, our room was very
cute; neat bathroom too.
We laid out our clothes and went out
for a stroll. Glorious sea! glorious
weather! We should have enjoyed 1t
without reserve. but we couldn't help feel
ing that we didn't belong. Everything
was so luxurious, so smooth; it was too
good for u.s.
We got home from our walk in prime
humor for a cold sea-water Tubing be-
fore dressing for dinner. The banquet
was set for s. We had plenty of time.
We even spent a couple of minutes before
the long mirror admiring the cut of our
new whereabouts. No doubt. thinks we
to ourself, old man Dee, of the B. V. Dee
Company, could afford to stay here for
month at time.
We yearned for the gurgle of salt water
cascading into the tub. with a dexterous
twist we turned on the hot salt" spigot.
Nothing came. Oh, very well, well take
the cold. Nothing doing, Nor was there
any response from the hot fresh" or the
"cold fresh" We thought of Moses, but
even If he were within call we probably
would not have been permitted to sum-
mon him. There came a knock at the
door. We opened it partly and peered
out. Towels" said the chambermaid,
and handed in a half-dozen or so; fine, big
couldn't.
We went to the telephone to complain.
We couldn't understand the operator or
make ourself understood by her. We
dressed and went down to the desk. mo
water in the bathroom" we said. mo
water?" said the under clerk, looking at
us sternly. He conferred with the head
clerk, who came over and inspected us
through shell-rimmed glasses. mo
water?" he demanded suspiclously. We
began to feel that we We're at fault. Then
a bellhop, issuing from below stairs, re-
ported: Luke, de engineer says all dem
fourth floor peopleil have to wait for
water till he kin git his pump fixed" 1t
was now half-past seven. I'VE feel far
from frivolous" we said but could you
make Luke warm a little water for our
very necessary shaving?" We were
gravely assured that it would be done;
and when the bellhop brought 1t It was
no nearer hot than we had asked. Still,
there's comfort in a shave, with a nice
electric light directly over the glass. We
may have said that to ourself aloud and
the light may have been listening. At
any rate, it went out. We borrowed a
candle and finished the business before
u.s. Then the electric light stopped sulk-
ing and came back,
At the dinner table we found many new
relatives-"one touch of nature" you
know After dinner there was dancing
but we turned in; and, we thought, surely
Luke will have his pump fixed by morn
ing. We missed our guess. We man
aged to make the telephone operator un-
derstand that we wanted water for wash.
ing. When the boy brought It we gave
him quarter. We were delighted. Now,
we thought, if we could only manage to
get a bad egg at breakfast we'd take that
7;05 train with a perfect score. We Jared
better than we had hoped. We got no
breakfast at all. The kitchen fire hadn't
been lighted early enough, or something;
we didn't have time to listen to the alibi.
Our taxi failed us at the last minute and
we had to walk to the station.
BY this time we were tickled pink. No.
really, we were! You see, the dear old
resort had given US more real 10Y than
we could possibly have had If she had
been prepared for us. It was like catch.
ing a pompous. precise queen dowager
with her hair on and her false teeth in
a glass of water. Her name in the society
news will never frighten us again!
And very likely commencement day for