Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-11
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having lived for generations in such
glorious surroundings. Therefore 1t
is all the more amazing that some
cheap little travelling salesman stop
ping to eat a good country dinner
should laugh to me, his next neigh
Dor at table, about the grand we'd
ding anniversary celebration that
had taken place in the house the
week before, and what a scream"
1t was. The details of the party, the
number of the guests and their Pc
culiarities, the preparations that had
begun weeks before, wen the pres
ents, several of them exactly like
several things l have seen In one of
Fifth avenues best STOKES, seemed to
furnish him with matter for his
mirth. 1 was Mortified at his telling
me all this at their table, because 1
knew the family couldn't possibly be
out Of ear shot, and l disliked SEEM
ing to be a party to the ridicule. And
yet he, because he hailed from a city,
felt superior to these folk. His man
lners were a~trocious, but theirs were
courteous and dignified. In other
words, the plain people he was ridi-
culing were vastly his superiors in
breeding. Does that illustrate my
point?
1 wonder If you girls at home are
counting the days until some very
special date when you will be going
off on a long-planned and much an
ticipated vacation. Whatever it is,
l wish for you that it may be exactly
the kind that fits your particular
needs. If you have been doing office
work, you need an out-doorsy vaca-
ton, the kind where you can wear
old clothes and fish and row and
swim and tramp to your hearts con-
tent. You don't need to go where
there are lots of people. A good
book, possibly a sketching pad, a bit
of cheerful knitting for a rainy day.
not to forget a raincoat and a pair
of rubbers for the same OCCASION
for you don't want to be housebound
when 1t rains,-and you will find
your needs supplied.
School girls of course need lots OF
room in which to work off all their
restless energy. Most girls camps
are planned for school girls. so that
il they can go off to a good camp,
they are well provided for. The old
fashioned home, in which school
girls had a daily program of house,
hold duties, and learned to do a good
deal of their own sewing, couldn't be
beaten for its educational value. So
you girls who can't go off to ex-
pensive camps like some of your
classmates. take heart, and while you
are assuming some of the household
burdens to eas up the housework
for your mothers, just enjoy to the
full the fact that you are getting ex-
p~erience in learning the machinery
of that indispensable institution CALL
ed 'the home" that you are accom-
plishing something very worth while,
and that you Ire making your
mother and your father very proud
and happy at the cheerful, capable
way in which you take hold"
You will find that a busy vacation
is the very happiest, after all. You
will also find, when, at its end, you
can look back over the two months,
that you have accomplished much.
That is always a pleasant thought.
I know that somehow, "if you're a
good girl and help mother" some
thing nice will happen to give you a
delicious taste of something vaca-
tony to remember all the coming
years. 1t doesn't have to be long
it may be only a day or two, but
there is certainly an added zest to a
vacation that ONE out of a clear
sky when one has been working
long and hard. You appreciate every
second of it then. Your joy in it is
concentrated, and the flavor of it
lastsi
And now I am going to drive back
to my hotel, and perhaps today, as
yesterday, I shall see a mink slip
ping down to the water after cycling
me with surprise and curiosity from
the shore. And perhaps this after
noon l shall again see the fresh
tracks of deer up the mo~untainside,
while l linger beside the noisy little
brook, full of falls and little rapids,
to pick wild Strawberries or strange
flowers. And I'm sure I shall think
again. as | have thought so many
times already, of the Five-Fifteeners
who would revel in just this quiet,
wonderful beauty, the fragrance OF
fir trees aad meadows of tall hay and
the sounds of waterfalls and little
birds.-and o yes, the purring of an
occasional motor cart
MARY G.