The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-08-13

Many long years ago" when BY
he grace of railroad pass and a
new frock we got trip away from
nome, our father always insisted that
we write up cur trip" holding that
whatever was new and interesting to
us would be interesting to some of
our subscribers. Therefore even at
this late day when away / always
want to tell everybody in town about
the things l see.
Of course there is much to see
around a summer hotel, the people
forming an ever changing picture.
Getting to a mountain hotel is the
proposition now. The .rains are
crowded with all sorts anu conditions
of men and the old fashioned idea
of giving a seat to lady has gone
into the discard. Coming up here
women were standing, sitting three
in a seat, on suit cases and on the
arm of the seats. At spartanburg
the porter told US that the Pullmans
we're all "chock-a-block" and we
were glad CT a seat just any where
in the train. From Ashevilie on our
companion was a mountaineer who
scorned water as anything other than
a beverage, who wore overalls and
held a smutty little boy in his lap.
He told me the mountaineers had no
trouble making a living out of corn
and all about the paper pulp mill at
Canton. A woman across the aisle
vas chewing tobacco but she did not
COX any worse than some of the
women around the hotel in satin
dresses and with painted faces who
were chewing gum.
Today it is raining a steady down.
pour and everybody is coopec up in
he hotel. Many are playing bridge,
there is one table Of poker and one
fo:ty-!wo and l believe there are
four people in the house who
acknowledge to- playing roo:;. Bridge,
however is the popular game and
some of the women play all day long.
I find that the topics of conversation
are about the same every where
servants, the cost of living, the
styles and about ecch other seem to
hold forth here. This morning lady
told me that she had been al the no
tel week and she had yet to see
man as good looking as her husband.
another group was talking ABOUT how
to turn back an embroidered sheet
and make it look like a spread and
we're bemoaining the fact that it cost
4 cellar to have such shee.s launder-
FL in "a city. i
4 group of New Orleans people
we're talking Of the time Pershing
I'D Materlinck were in their city
At the same time, how bored the great
Belgian was, even disdaining to look
1t the Bluebird float prepared for
MS entertainment while Pershing
"as said to have discarded his sword
and to have danced his way into the
cc>rts Of al! the women.
A man around a summer hotel on
, rainy day is a disconsolate look
ng object. The very few VINO dance
and play bridge can put IN busy
.:me but the business men who are
. re for a rest or ovc Sunday with
heir wives have trouble passing the
time away. A family from Jackson
Vile, Fla, are here, the man coming
for two weeks rest. His wife told
ne this morning that he couldn't
stand to be away from his office any
cnger and was going home. Mr..
Rembert who has been here from
Bennettsville made the day out by
'id;ng around in his car and going to
he moving pictures, but when it
,cme to the dance at night he said
the men turned and twisted around
g much that he "jvst cou' 'dn't stand
q look at them"
The dances at the Gordon are very
%ell arranged and everybody seems
20 have a coed time. The young men
Of the town come in and there