Year: 1877

We hear very little of the summer season
this year at mountain or scacoast. Decent
papers have banished the stero0typed column
concerning hotel hops and ladies' costumes,
and do not even hint the last engagement OF
Irritation, and decent people feel the relief.
Yet the stay-at- homes think perhaps of country
life oftener than usual as they jolt down
Broadway in an omnibus. Ii gives Jones an
odd sense of rest on his way to his work to
remember that the dusky little brook in which
he bageed trout last August Is rafting on
its way Just az if there were no strikers IN
the world, and that the sunshine will flicker
on it and the oaks thrust their gray knees
into its ferns and MOSES generations after
strikers and capitalists are dead and forgotten.
There is the sea, too, tapping the shore, and
the yellow sands stretched out beneath the
fog, Just as they were last year, before Jones
lost all his savings in Jersey Ccntral-just as
they were before the Chaldeans and the fire
from heaven swept away all of jobs savings.
There is deal of comfort in this uGchlngc-
able back aground Of Nature, after all. There
are the great waving fields of corn, and the
sun shining for them, and the rain falling for
them, let us strike or squabbe or NOW each
other down with Gating guns Of ironclads,
as we choose. 1t helps the ordinary man and
woman as much to go out Of town, and come
once n year at least in contact with this cter-
nal order of Gods world, IA much as the pure
air and salt bathing helps their body. Conceit
and unbclicf are as troublesome diseases as
rheumatism and dyspepsia.


The only reason that the or dnary Smith
and White are not helped by it is that they
won't see it. Fresh air will go into their
lungs and the salt water washes their skin,
but the real meaning of mountain and field
does not touch them. because they wrap them
selves in their own petty notions. White is an
artist, perhaps, and sky and sea and land are
to him so much material = certain effects OF
light, shade, burnt umber and gamboge and
the majority Of educated people look at them
from his point of view, and catch the slang of
his school. A landscape subjected TO the
SLOPPY view Of Il studio is aS much degraded
and robbed of its real meaning as though the
rocks were scTaWled over with adjurailons to
Try Winnings Bittersn or "Smlths Backing


Young people, too, ought to gain some glimpse
Of a real Arcadia IN these Summer jaunts. II
is the pairing time of the year for thcm. Pyra-
mus is going oIt into the woods TO look for
Thisbe who Is coming from the ends of the
world to meet him. But listen to the rapid
talk of the young fellows at the dances in the
hotels, or the cacilc of the Sirls next morning,
and where is your Arcadia Your true lovers
ready to dare the lions for only kiss through
the wail} They are talking Of marriage and
betrothal as Jones discusses Mcrrimac prints,
or Smith Goldfish. They are traders, huclisters,
and matrimony is their stock in the market.


If they and all our other readers would leave
shop and shop ideas at home for one day, and
look at the Summer and the human beings about
them with clear, clean eyes, sthcy would find
not only cure for dyspepsia, bat some of the
elixir of life in this August holiday.