| Show BY MAX ORELL I T T been told and I f readily believe belee It ih that at the tho summer pleas I J Jure ure resorts of America are unlike those dreary tIr ary English places where the te natives of ot England take their holidays sadly bored from fm morning morningto to t o night for those who do not indulge in yachting golfing shooting fish fishing sh shing ing l ug and other sports r have only seen the he Americans at play in their winter resorts resort In Flor FlorIda Flor Florda Ida da Ida i I have also seen se n them in Europe visiting our old castles and cathe cathedrals i deals and crowding our best hotels and I always feel grateful for the mar marvelous marvelOus elOU improvements which our hotels hOlls have h ave carried carre d out to meet the re ic requirements r of at people who can cn Justly justy boast of the best the most luxurious hotels in the world It Is to t the Americans that we o owe we the introduction of bath rooms roms and andor of or o f all al those sanitary saniar arrangements which w only ten years er ear ago aso It was wa the 1 privilege of only very er few wealthy continental Europeans to t enjoy So far as pleasure pleure Is concerned in the winter resorts of America Americ the 3 rocking chair seems to me the chief almost the only attraction Going to the Ponce Pence Ponc de Leon Ion hotel or such other luxurious palaces of ot St at SI Augustine Augustne and rocking themselves on the piazzas I have hove not discovered any other kind of enjoyment There the rocking chairs chair alt all al alike with wih their caned seats and red frames are placed in symmetric lines Unas lne for the th use of the thep guests p From breakfast time till ti the dining room Is opened for luncheon from luncheon l time till tn dinner Is ready the Americans rock themselves When Whan dinner Is over the rocking chairs are taken rc In the hall and the I hall holiday oliday h makers go on rocking themselves till tn It Is 15 time to retire and go goo to t o bed I When Whan thoy they have done this for a few weeks they return home and de d dare clare care d are they have had hd a good time I I r have always deplored d the absence of a conductor or some good old od sergeant ergeant s to start them together and antI beat bent time tinie Some rock themselves slowly lowly s some do it wildly I No metronome m is used to t keep them well wl together and antI the effect Is ter ibbe r ness on the person peron who watches them On some people i It produces sea se sick I Viewed at a certain distance the scone seone is not unlike that of badly worked waves at a theatre when the poor por fellows under the painted panted cloth are threatened with wih a reduction of salary and dont put their hearts herts In their work The steady stead mother of a la o family Indulges in only three or four os 05 a minute the flirt frt who has ha Just heard herd paid to her tier a somewhat bold boki compliment uses her chair as rapidly as she would her fan faa under th Same circumstances circumstance the woman whose life Ute Is regular and goes on like hike the of ot a clock cock roce herself for hours hour at the rate of twenty tw nty oscillations a minute at a perfectly uniform unior rate all al the time Sometimes the rocking is Jerky jErky capricious feverish from a slow regular pendulum It becomes as a mad as If It if the main spring had broken the pant is either a man whose love Is not returned or a stock broker who ig is il expecting man a telegram telling him hint that he is ruined or r may be a 0 very er rich Some clever rockers rs stop step dead quite suddenly A couple cuple engaged in sweet converse go So In for slow and very ver s short hor oscillations so that their heads are never far one from the other and always within hearing the least whisper Some are asleep ep some are smoking most of them are talk ing my but all al are moving moving moving The rocking chair is h perhaps the most vivid illustration of at American Activity Even when they are a at rest the Americans have Invented seats seat that keep them on the move mOe |
