The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
OBy GEORGE Il. BYEJ

London. England May s.-(By mail
to The Apdmorite. .l-On spanking
bright May day we set out, on "A crowd
ed train, for the Essex countryside
where we are to be weekend guests OF
English friends. Never was there a
more honest sun in the sky, and the
picture.book scenery responds joyous
~ by looking its greenest, tidiest, pret'
tiest.
At the station are Mr., b. and Betty
and "Bobs" (Inglish nickname for Bar
bara), . and ~ respectively, home from
boarding school for u weeks holiday
| t2nglish for vacation and bouncing
with life. Mr.. Il. having given his car
to the army during the war had char
| tered a village cab for the occasion,
and this with it's driver and horses are
brushed and FURNISHED with holiday
care. on one hill, where the roadside
is goldened with primroses, we come to
II gradual halt, the driver turning about
very slowly, overcome with mortified
ton to explain: MY 'orse ere, you see,
be not so young as he appears. Would
you mind just a minutes rest, please.
I'm sorry"
But no, we wouldn't wait. We want
ed to climb that hill on foot, anyway,
under such "A gladstone sun, with the
air almost maddening with springy cX.
elements. Merriy we jump out, get
behind the ancient cab and push it,
with its venerable horse and politely
eNpostulating driver up to the top.
This is not seemy decorum in an Eng
lish town house party, but the rules
are different for week-ending wSh a
family having children. However,
there is another sort Of Weekend, an
intellectual lcvee in which the guests
are supposed to do nothing but cN-
change opinion from Saturday to Mon
day. The only opinion that we came
TO from saturday to Monday was that
We believed it delightful to he alive.
sports of House Party.
Mr.. H. called his house "a box" but
it had 10 bedrooms, Railways. IL feet
wide, and a library morning room and
music room, in addition to the usual
other rooms on the ground lloor-the
house being set in about five acres of
ground, II stately lawn fringed by daf
fodls, narcissus and primroses in front
in back, an extensive vegetable garden. /
Each vegetable plot was framed with /
wide borders of grass. and an Old gar
dener kept it all very neat. y rocliery .
had been piled up outside the drawing /
room window, and this is colorful for
eight months in the year with season /
able blooms, whose names | never can .
remember.
The first sport of the house party
was the introducing Carol, Is, pink, al.
most hilarious with the joy of living,
thought it ripping" to have an oppor.
tunity to become acquainted with Amer
leans. This is jolly" echoed her broth
az, who was a prisoner for four and
one-half years in the German Ruhleben
camp. He was studying music in Ber-
lin when the war broke out.
After some sweets English for can
lyl, while we watched Betty and Bobs
pick some enormous bouquets, we got
'eady for tennis. But that sun wasn't ,
50 honest. Before We had the nets
ightened clouds had filled the sky and >
t began to rain.
This would have gloomed an Ameri-
'an house party. over here the wealth +
n is always so tickle that people put t
dependence only on its volatility. our !
losts promptly called us inside to an t
arly tea, after we We're each supplied t
With mackintoshes and stout shoes. or I
as well as old hats and heavy !
Walking sticks, and out into the down f
'our We struggled on high adventure. J
his bad weather equipment seems to