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Sargent's "Reading for the young" was published just after the White Mountain conference of 1890, and the subject was not discussed in San Francisco in 1891 or at Lakewood in 1892 except in relation to schools. The Ladies' Commission on Sunday school books is at least five years older than the American Library Association.
"But it isn't exactly a summer place, is it?" asked Mrs. Maynard. "Neither is Lakewood," said Cousin Ethel. "But it's a cool spell just now, and I think it would be lots of fun to run down there." "All right," said Mr. Maynard, "let's run." And run they did.
They seemed to her, poor dear, these roses, to be pink with the glory of the coming of the dawn. On the spur of the moment and because the same precipitate decision that determined Louis Latz's successes in Wall Street determined him here, they were married the following Thursday in Lakewood, New Jersey, without even allowing Carrie time for the blue-twill traveling suit.
This same lady deplores lack of leisure hours, yet if she finds by her engagement book that there is a free week ahead, she will run to Washington or Lakewood, “for a change,” or organize a party to Florida.
She would have preferred to have had her run down to Lakewood for a few weeks and then follow her brother across the water for a year or two of travel; but Hazel was quite determined, and before January was over she was established in the hospital, through the influence of their family physician, and undergoing her first initiation.
He thought the door would never be opened, and, when the stately butler did swing back the portal the young reporter, not waiting to ask for anyone, stepped into the hall. "No one at home," the servant remarked with a smile, for he had gotten to be on quite friendly terms with Larry. "No one home?" "No. Mrs. Potter and Miss Grace have gone to Lakewood, N.J., for a few days. Mrs.
King's tactless remark that she affected the game because she had a horror of getting fat. "Corking, she is, and as quick as a cat. Got a medal at Lakewood last spring. I'll fix up a match soon, Mrs. King, between you and Maud. Ought to be worth going miles to see, eh, King?" "Oh, I am afraid, Mr. Blithers, that I am not in your daughter's class," said Loraine King, much too innocently.
Their destination was Lakewood, but for quite a distance their road lay along by the shore before they turned inland. Marjorie sat back, beside Cousin Ethel, and King sat in front with Cousin Jack. "Let's play Roadside Euchre," said Midget. "We go too fast for that," said King. "We couldn't see the things to count them." "What is it, Mehitabel?" asked Cousin Jack. "We aren't going so very fast."
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