Daily British Whig (1850), 4 Jul 1908, p. 14

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THE Zhe SBiiting : | 77S fo forever .vt DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, I ---------- wp -WhyDoes She Make he Summer Holiday ESucha Strenuous lime? A hot midsummer sun beats down the parching turf. Not a leaf of a stirs; not a breath of wind fans flusheil faces of a score or more g women standing about ; r a graceful, athletic maiden 8 a stick; swings it with the ter g forck of an Amazon, and jumps withla cry as the ball ding across the grass. Casting the stray strands of hair from p forehead, she wipes the perspira- ) Jrom her face and finally, pant- ig, laughing, sweltering from the Bat, sinks limply on a bench. Others HOW," going through the same stren- 8 exercise, and retiring, fagged by heat. "Beyond yonder dell of grech anoth- k y of girls, in white duck, 'with or #traw hats as broad as minia- § wmbrellas, jump and run and ort with bats in their hands. On %ley, burning court of clay they en- \ in a game of tennis, despite the jun, 'despite the languor of the melt- atmosphere. WMeigho---the summer girl !' Energe- athletic, brimful of life and crav- excitement, in the summer she has playtime. No longer the dainty, iph-like creature, who spends the gamer in a hammock reading Mrs. mphry Ward or Tennyson; nor yet Hlangkid maiden who lounges under , munching candy or sipping iced i One finds the summer girl of to- plunging gaily into the suri at seaside, or vigoromsly rowing a at on an Adirondack or Maine lake: is to be seen in the tennis court, golf links; riding, fishipg, hunting, fincing--but not sitting. listlessly un- the trees. She scorns rest. She laughs at ham- ks--except in the evening, when, of 86, there is another there: and in- dd of quiétly reading frothy novels, i prefers the vim and vigor of exer- in the open, if torrid, air. With the fipst sign of summer one jy see them flocking to the resorts; the seaside and mountaing, to the 8,! the forests and the lake re goes © the woods flock the lacious dryads, and f lovely naiads. is summer time. their merry, mellow, musical hter; it is swnmer and the turf J to the music of their gladsome ats. It summer time--and wo- i's playtime. Ho, ho, and what a time ! they come from shops and stores factories, from silk mills and lin- * mills; from behind counters and n offices--by the thousand. They pe from boarding schools and col- students and teachers--hby the jusands; they come frome city homes mansions in - teeming numbers, they enjoy, in their playtime, laughing, to the waters The woods ring 18 the' periods of from one week to the tire summer. These happy playtime people may spend from $5 to $500 or more a week each, just as she can afiord. Working girls save throughout the. winter for this merry season, when? they can shake off the shackles of the type- writer or the goods counter, and the city girl of independent means hails with delight freedom from social thrall and the glorious games of tennis and golf and the delights or canoeing or camping. Of course, men the summer. They go tains or the seaside or the country, too, but, forsooth, what would sum- mer be without the women ? What without the jolly flirtations, the sight of bevies of white-dressed girls in leafy woods, and the charm- ing music of laughter on placid. lakes on star-studded evenings ? Summer time young time--their playtime. 'Men go to sorts for a week; women delight to stay for the summer. Mén tire and begin to think of their offices and ledgers and orders--but the women, bless them ! never tire of play, Then, too, one Mhust remember that the playtime of the women costs a pretty little penny, and . what if the men didn't gp back to their offices ? Summer vacations in the aggregate cost a 'tremendous amount of money, and most of it, perhaps two-thirds, is spent by women. Go to Atlantic City, Sgratoga, Bar Harbor, the dells of Wisconsin, and observe the per- centage of women. And when one re- members that the vacation traffie of the Pennsylvania and New York Cen- tral railroads alone runs into several millions; that in one state, New Hampshire, vacationists spend in one season $5,000,000; that, with the great hotels, accommodating 6,000 guests a day during the eight weeks of July and August, with possibly three-fourths women and children, paying 83 to $10 a day--well, one can get some idea of what it costs the man-at-home ! In Atlanti¢ City and other big re: sorts the great hotels number their summer guests by very many thou- sands, a large majority. women, In the Adirondacks, one finds accommo- dations for something like 10,000 per- sons; in the Catskills, 8,000; at Lake George, 6,000, and in the White Moun- } ' tains more than 11,000, and most of the patrons are women. Even in the Maine woods and the Canadian forests, favorite resorts for men who can afford to spend a month or more, one finds the fair summer player much in evidence. And do.you see her in hammocks with the "Dolly Pialogues," in her hands? Not at all. She i= playing. She is on the golf links. She i8 in a canoe. She plavs baseball, perhaps. She rides. She dances. She is always. playing in some 'wav. / Does she rest ? Rest, indeed ! Men may rest. but the summer girl, bub- bling with merriment, efférvescing with vitality, exuberant with P®ppi- ness, alwavs plave=plays breathlessly, tirelessly. indefatigablv. Assuredly, summer time is no long- er rest time. During the spring months the tonic of conversation of office girls, school girls, teachers, rosehpde just in' the social swim, of cifls of all sorts, vonne and old--if eirls ever do grow old--is what they shall do in the sum- mer. en- take vacations in to the moun- women's Te is camps in excursions the woods; there are also abroad. ach year there are cruises to the Orient, Alaska, Sweden, Norway, and the Mediter- ranean. Hundreds of thousands go on these conducted parties for sums of $300 or more or less. School teach- ers form a great percentage of these travellers, also young women who get) a leave of absence from their offices for a couple of months. And even on board the ships life is not one of repose. There are amuse- ments, games, dances. The summer girl going abroad dances across the ocean, and abroad climbs mountain peaks or spends her days exploring cities or fascinating ruins. Suppose she goes to the mountains there are gamés by day and dances by night; one long, breathless, less pace of amusements. There coaching parties, riding parties, ing parties and hunting parties. young girl canoes and swims. A great part of the army of women vacationists made up of working yomen. Many of these spend their vacations on farms. . Summer board- ing is one of the.ehief industries of New Hampshire. In that state not many years ago 350 farms were pur- chased and converted into summer boarding houses. A few years ago the commissioner of labor gathered statistics concerning the summer journers, end- are fish- The 18 sO j He found that the capital invested in summer property amounted to $10,442 352. The number of guestsaat farmhouses, boarding houses and hotels numbered about 154,000, more than half, and possibly three-fourths of the number being women. Moré than 20,000 peo- ple oceapied cottages ,during the sum- mer. More than 12,000 persons were employed for the entertainment of the vacationists; the wages paid exceeded £539,000. THe total amount of money received from the summer denizens amounted to $1,947,935. Railroad fares collect- ed in the state amounted to $600, 000 and steamer fares to more that £60,080. "Phe stagn, coaches collected $60,000. . "The stage Ponce collect ed more than $63, Lk Fhis in one state. About sixty-two per cent. of the vacationists, according to Commission« er Carroll, stayed only one week. The majority were teachers, store girls, stenographers and fypew riters, women librarians and other feminine toilers from the cities. On Lake Pewaukee, there is a unique alone in 'Wisconsin, camp. Forty or The Root Of Health. Is lots of red and vitalizing blood to nourish and invigorate the body. If your blood is thin and watery use "Ferrozone." It supplies the npces- sary elements, such as phosphorous and iron, and quickly restores lost strength and spirits. Ferrozone is an unequalled restorative for She tired, the sick and the run-down, i stimu- lates the appetite, aids digestion, soothes the nerves, and makes the -svstem too healthy for disease ta exist. No tonic does so mnch good in a short time as Ferrozone. :Qlet it to-day from any drggist for ble. per box or six hoxes for $2.50. By mail from N. C. Polson & Uo,, Kingston, There are the resorts; there are Ont, 7% Tere gre Aap raciads Vets oo 2dboorts: i oe. ~ 7 fifty old street cArs have been verted into lodging places, and always in demand. All through the west thousands of farms become the temporary homes of summer hgarders. In fact, there is hardly a part of the country, hardly a lake of any size, hardly any available seacoast, that is not made the playground of the sum- mer girl. In one month at the close of the va- cation season about 500,000 pieces of baggage arc handled at the Grand Central station, in New York city: trunks are piled up sufficient to cover acres, and could you look in sixty out of every Iw -you would see laces, fol-de-rols, powder pufis and outing suits, " "The summer girl has simply die: covered summer," declared 5 writer several years ago, "and she is making vacation one of the great industries-- with capitals." 'Take the seaside and mountain resorts and the gmusements offered; there are tennis courts, golf links, coaching parties, dance halls. They advertise canoeing, bathing, fish- ing and hunting. There are minstrel shows 'and various entertainments. With keen business instinct almost every resort owner arranges his at- tractions and amusements to make them of interest to women. Go to the seashore. Buoyant, fear- less, chic and dainty in a silken bath- ing suit and cap, the girl fearlessly plunges into the ocean, and, like Neptune's nymphs, uisports hilariously in the rioting waves. In the evening pep into the roller-skating rink. Ah! with rollicking abandon she rolls on skates as Luihely as on the ocean waves. Look on the piers. There she dances, codl in filmy lawns whie men perspire, % Or jump to the mountains. Where do you.find -her ? You wander into the woods, tremulous with the lisp of leaves and the twitter of birds. Sud- denly there is a ringing ery: You peer between the leaves, and there--ubiqu- itous as ever--she bends over a stream, a great wriggling fish dangling from her line. At night she is on the lake, by day riding horseback or off on a jolly jaunt with-a coaching party. Out on the rolling waves vou will find her on the decks of yachts, tac kle in hand or at the wheel; or, again, find her dancing while an' orcliestra discourses the "Merry Widow Waltz" as' the excursion stejmer glides over the water. . From the see her on cars, going country. con- are cities each day you will the many lines of trolley for a day's outing in the She looks cool in white duck and lugs great lunch baskets with every evidence of joyfil antici- pation. On Saturdays, in couniry and city, you will see her going to the weekly play--to parks and nearby rve- sorts--as joyous as the nature that appeals to her. Rest? Lackaday, the summer girl does not rest! For summer is her playtime; a playtime whether there be sunshine or rain, whether the weather be cloudy or fair, when she reigns su- preme, queen of the boardwalk revels, {Titania of the forests or mistress of | the seas, And she always hag a jolly good time. There is lots of fun in doing things you don't have to do, JULY 4, 1908. CA 4s J7c7 ars/ap rer p74 Indigestion Causes Nervousness. Health Culture. Nervousness poison formed is often due to some in the blood hy the decomposition of undigested food--in other words, often arises primarily from indigestion. Nervousness 'when due to this cause may sometimes continue though mahy years without causing' dangerous con- The popularity of the gambrel roof treatment for cottages is due = to several reasons., Une of these reasons is the desire for a low cottage ap pearance and still retain two full- height storeys; this can be done most successfully with the gambrel roof. The second floor space is not as large as the first floor. This is also an ad- vantage often, as it admits of ample rooms on the first floor and without the necessity of more chambers than is required on the second floor. There is very little waste space in the attic, although there may be suflicient room for storage of trunks, etc. : The ground size of this * house is thirty feet wide by thirty-six' feet deep, exclusive of piazza, and the es- timated cost as deseribed with good basement is $3,500, exclusive of heat- ing and plumbing. ¢ There is a large living-room fourteen hy twenty-six feet, a good size recepe tion hall, a dining-room eleven by fourteen feet, a kitchen ten by four- feen feet and an ample pantry with rear entryway. The second storey has three large and one small chamber, each provided with ample clothes closets. There is a large hoen closet and bath-rgom. The broad liberal - piazwa across the front makes a cool and shady retreat for summer. This design has clapboards for the np ro op $i ESA, Re " 2k 4 Ron VEER Yever roo Wore ror Gok. . % 3S Ce ditions. Un the other hand nervous disturbances due to this auto-intoxica- tion or teli-poisoning may be imme- diately fatal, Many people, however, suffer from 'nervous indigestion," as they call it, for twenty years or more without fatal termination. In these cases there is, of course, a gradual weaken- ing of the general system which pre- disposes to many diseases, and death is always premature, usually = being traceable to what is called "heart failure." Advertising In Dull Times. Binghamton Republican. Have you ever thought of it that when a man is #gick--when he is not earning money--is exactly the . time > first storey and the gables in shingle or rough cast cement. A very pretty interior finish for thi } Washington fir in mission style, stain-, : house would be KITCHEN 0 OXI40 hans amv aed vin stp abba Sn i FIRST FLOOR PLAN, when he cannot afford to hire a doc- tor ? : If you haven't, you have probably heard a merchant advance an e ly similar doctrme about advertising. There are merchants who figure that in "dull times," when money is not easy to get, they cannot afford to spend it for advertising "space. If there is any essential difference between: these two ideas--wherein does it lie? : Of course, most men realize--when anything else except the subject of advertising is involved--that at a time when a thing is necessary is no time to 'quibble about whether or not it can be "afforded." But, as to ad- vertising, a few men imagine that none of the laws of business apply to that. . Let Your Hair Stay. Baldness approaches hair by hair, by tho more or less rapid daily loss of hair that is not replaced. If your hair is falling out stop it now with Dr. Dawson's Hair Restorer. Restores gray hair to itk natural' color. In bottles; 50c., at Wade's Drug Store: ------------ Good wishes alone never helped the one in trouble very much. SR ete ----------_------------------------------------------------------------------------ _-- THE FOUR GABLED GAMBREL ROOF. Designed by Chacles S. Sedgwick, Architect, Minneapolis, Mion. ok ed with a dark Flemish stain. The same style will Jook well throughout, or the second storey can be finished in white enamel if preferred.

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