Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-11

Dear Girls:
L am wr1ing this with my type
writer on the ground and in the
shade of some little spruce trees and
arbor vitaes, the kind you see in
Handicapped gardens, only these just
grew here, and there are millions
more like them. Every time 1 look
up, l can see across the valley the
blue mountains in the distance, with
fair fields stretched out on the hill
sides between, and green pastures,
dotted with pines and spruces and
balsam-firs.
1 have Just had a wonderful drive
around a lake that nestles down be-
tween quite wild and craggy noun
tains. The drive was especially
charming because it curved about at
the very waters edge. and was over
hung on both sides by a dense
growth of these same frs and pines,
with any number of white birches
standing out conspicuously. as IL they
wished the passer-by to notice their
fair beauty.
On this same lake, as l was driving
around it for the first time a few
evenings ago., I saw a large camp
for girls, and at n point in the
winding road, l met a crowd of girls,
evidently from the. camp all very at
tractive in their spic-and-span white
middies, Knockers, and golf socks.
They were evidently having a mild
little spree before taps" sounded, for
they seemed to be all coming away
from a farm house, and eating some
thing good.
1 have always heard that boys
were the takers of the blue ribbons
when it comes to eating, that "the
way to a mans heart is by his stom-
ach," but If the other sex enjoys
eating any more than ours does, at
any age, I'd like to be shown. Why,
ever grown-up women can't get to-
gether for an afternoon at cards or
a club meeting or a missionary So
ciety, without having refreshments!
And they presumably have plenty to
eat at home.
Certain brands Of chocolates are
advertised as the kind SHE likes"
She does, I'm sure but nobody yet
has admitted that the way to a wo-
mans heart Is by her stomach. Prob
ably because it is still considered
vulgar to mention stomachs socially.
The next time you start to jeer at
brother Tom because he wants three
helpings of roast beef and string
beans and mashed potatoes and two
pieces of apple pie, don't. Remem-
Der that box of candy you consumed
in the afternoon, and the bag of salt
ed peanuts, and the drug store con-
coction of ice cream and bananas and
walnuts and syrup. It's really I'M
fair to Tom, isn't It? He isn't in
dulging his stomach all day with rub
Dish, so that when he comes to din
ner he really eats and enjoys his din
ner, while you sit at the table and
turn up your nose at the food, and
your poor mother is much distressed
because poor Mile has absolutely
no appetite"
A friend of mine has q small boy
who worried her to death because he
was SO thin and seemed to have no
appetite. So she talked this serious
matter over anxiously with her husA
band, and they agreed that it might
be a good thing to have the father
take Johnny off in the mountains for
two weeks, to see IL he wouldn't de-
velop an appetite. The day after
they went, my friend had a bill sent
her by the baker that rather aston
ished her as she had been paying
cash for all the bread. So she went
to the baker to inquire, and the
baker explained that Johnny had
been getting a large mince pie each
noon just after school, which he had
charged and had duly surrounded, so
far as he was able. 1t was hardly
to be wondered at that Johnny's ap-
petite for luncheon had failed. And
you car imagine that my friends
feelings were somewhat mixed when
she heard from her husband that
"Johnny's appetite had picked up
wonderfully" I think she would
have spanked Johnny fervently if he
had been conveniently at hand.
I wish I might have all the Five
Fifteeners here together to talk over
some features OF vacations that hap
pen to be uppermost in my mind.
| One of the very topmost is the atti-
tude of certain "city" folk toward
everyone who lives in the country,
on toward the natives" in other
words. I hope none of my tea table
girls will ever be guilty of such an
attitude. 1t is so inexperienced of
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rather die than to be thought lin
experienced',-but 1t is also so W
fully ignorant.
l have seen young girls,-and
much older girls too, for that matter,
approach a beautiful white farm
house where the mistress had lived
all her life among people of cultiva-
ton, with choice books and charming
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that was beautiful two hundred years
ago and is now still more beautiful
I mean, in short, a mistress who is
a lady with a delightful and most de-
sirable background,-and because
she lives in a farmhouse, instead of
on Riverside Drive or possibly in a
snob from Harlem or from Port
Reading dares to patronize herl
There must have been many such
tourists going through the country
since automobiles have been taking
people vacationing for the last few
years. One can tell 1t from the
effect 1t has had IN the people who
live in the vacation country. Lucky
people, they. to be able to live always
in the sight OF glorious mountains,
anu CledT lakes ana DlreneS ana Dali
sam-firsl What is there to be COM
pared with such treasures at ones
doors? They make ones little bust
nesses. or perhaps It Is BUSY
NESSES that I mean, seem as cheap
and tawdry and futile as the amuse-
ments at Coney Island.
1t has always seemed to me that
the people living in the mountains
have themselves a dignity, a nobility.
a sort OF rugged splendor OF charac-