New Britain herald., 1926-07-03

cost IllE dIlAull P'S iiAS'fN 'N''4' but S40,00O or approximately one third of one mill.
 Now come the summer months when everyone plans for the vaca- ton period, with trips abroad journeys to the sesquicentcnnial eX- position (although few of them are able to say iD, fishing expeditions, seashore jaunts, house parties, and Stop. That's il. House parties! They constitute one of the most pop uAar and most fearsome customs ot these allegcdTy civilized United States. Think of the work and trouble which go to make up such an affair.
 First is the difficulty of fixing a date. due 10 the fact that most of the persons concerned already have strings of dates far into the future. Then the place. must be found, and an endcayor made to locate some gulliblc owner Of summer resort property who can be induced to be- lieve you will not tear his cottage to pieces drink rp his lake, or take home the kitchen stove as a sou venir Some poor victim must then he forced to assume charge of eX- penses and he tries 10 collect tho proper amount from every indiyid- ual of the party, thereby making himself rated about as low as Death Valley and finally coasing his i'm portunities by settling the difference himself.
 Several others take charge of the food and buy just those delicacies which they like and the rest detest, while another collects all the bat tered antique flivvcrs in five coun- ties and invites the owners to go, provided they drive - another of those G-drivc propositions, The question Of chaperon is always suggested by someone and discussed WITH disgust. Even in these times however, it is finally decided best to keep up appearances and suggestions are then in order for candidates for the job. the ideal choice being an inmate of a home for the blind.
 Now, who will go in which car? No matter whether this is fixed by choice of driver or passenger or by lot it is a sure heart-breaker. Some | one gets all the good-looking wo- men and the other is stuck with Q carload of fellows. a third draws the impossible females, and another. the most unluckq of all--is saddled with the chaperon.
 At last all is ready for the start and this is made within two hours Of the time agreed upon. One auto of course develops q combination of asthma and rheumatism and has to be left behind, Another loses it's way and wanders all over the road map before it eventually bumps into a tree and finds itself by accident within a few rods of the right place, | The rest make the destination, all ! though considerably rattled by the 1 rough roads.
 1 Then comes the unfavorable Com- ment on the spot selected from some | crab. The first thought after that 1 is food and girls who cant boil water seek to prepare an elaborate ban ! quet with the result that the fishes | receive an extra meal and the near-
 by lunchroom has a sudden wind fall. Then come the dishes and the
 realization that paper plates should 1 have been used.
 Ho hum! Bedtime comes and goes
 but no one else does. Finally how
 eyer the supply of alleged witt.
 cisms eXhausts and boredom drives
 everyone to their rooms. It is i'm
 mediately discovered that the beds
 are as hard as bedrock and that the
 warped, yielding floor boards are
 much sitter. About pile into each
 bed, one collapses. another is found tenanted by roomers who pay nc
 rent and third proves to be ol the folding kind and does it's stuff Someone starts a goodnight song and | gets pillow in the mouth. A free
 for-all follows and all are wide awake again. A mild word of pro.
 test from the chaperon would be injected here, only she long age went to sleep. The clothes-stealine
 and pin-pricking begins and calls for
 more battles. Somehow the ganl
 at last quiets down and is walked by
 some early bird who gets out early
 in the morning and falls down stairs
 The breakfast coffee well i
 comes in handy later in the da,
 when it is used for iodine. Trips art
 then made into the surrounding
 country and the bunch proves it'
 knowledge of woods lore by the fac
 that fully half find their way bacl
 again. A swim cools everyone of
 except the always s-at-hand unfor
 tunats who won't go in but is push