THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
THE VILLAGE GOSSIP
THE CAROLINA
Thar Duchess
A grateful Providence has ordained
that my golf game bats were left be
hind when I came down here. In con
sequence, I find that my vocabulary is
returning and my self esteem rising The
maniacs are worse off than ever this
year. Consider the kind of things I hear
and used to indulge in.
"That Donald Ross he's a deep one
I've just been waking up to it. No
man alive that hasn't been over this
course could do it under an eighty
No. 2. "Not? You watch Buck
Whittemore tomorrow. He'l do seventy
five with a pair of tongs. Why, once
at Myopia I says to Buck, I says
No. 1. " lie won't play anyway. He'll
be off hunting alligators with Scotty in
the estuaries. Remember the .fourteenth
hole?" (as if anyone that ever piked it
could forget it.) "He's edged the
rough out there another fifty feet to
catch all big drives. It's a bitter
tiling, spending your whole life recover
ing from an ambush "
That's the sort of thing I've recov
ered from. Consequence is you'd be
proud to see me now. I go around with
the intellectuals. At the Fair I put four
red honors up on Nat Kurd's runaway;
examined the preposterous swine with
the Duke of Samarcand, who is bucolic
nnd nil that; learned more than any
body else does down here, who read only
the Pinehurst Outlook and the daily Jo
scphus propaganda, which is to say, ex
actly what is meant by the Freedom of
the Seas. I asked Edward A. Filene,
the philanthropist. He made Massa
chusetts safe for Democracy and so was
told. lie invited us all to a delightful
dinner with the Achorns and everybody
nt Pine Bluff. And then he told us
that it was a secret. But he also told
us about the League of Nations. With
Big Bill Taft at the head of both
leagues the American League and
Nation's league, life will be a regular
spoof .
I can plainly perceive that there arc
the makings of a winter here. Sure
enough, the latch string is out at the
Cones, and Mrs. Whittemore is back at
the centre of things. The furnace men
are bulling the bond market. Smoke is
curling in hospital circles above the
chimneys of the town, and ten thousand
trunks are piled high in the station.
Being the sign that Mr. and Mrs. B.
W. Merrill have escaped from Jamaica
Plain in good season and made perma
nent headquarters in their home on Caro
lina Vitn. This is a further sign that
Nat Ilurd and Mrs. Ilurd have added
to the reasonable retreats in the town
where timid people can escape from
threatening conspecti, and have brought
the Uncle Dunk balcony into play
over the No. 2 course. By the
same token great activity is to
be observed among the devotees" of the
Jockey Club. Col. Swigert goes sedate
ly about consulting with the owners and
riders and the star chamber of the Mem
bers ' Stmiil. -ivitli
under his arm the entry census of the
coming halleluja on the track or the
Blue Book of Mrs' Tuft's tea, the battle
centre of Thanksgiving afternoon.
Who should we meet in our constitu
tional to the morning ritual at the Post
Office but George T. Dunlap, looking
hale and cheery as an end man, having
been rescued by Mrs. Dunlap from Bat
tle Creek and slipped back to the heart
of the pines (and his countrymen) over
the macadam.
Fenleigh is back on the map again
and reinforcement for the Farm Life
School. Forsaking Florida for good,
Mr. and Mrs. Houston are where they
belong. Mrs. Houston comes from a
hard campaign in Holyoke, whose Sun-
nyside was the home plate of a great
drive for civilian Relief of the Red
Cross. With her usual energy and sue
cess she engineered a spectacular Home
Fires Garden Fete, which resulted in a
net return of $3,500 in money, and half
a million dollars worth of delight.
The soldier boys are beginning to
come marching or flying home. Who
is brigaded into the Currituck but
Pagie Boy Frank, Major and Adjutant
and the late escadriller, with a victory
party of generals and debutantees? The
Sandhills surrendered en masse. Nigger
boys flocked from the swamps and cad
die houses,, possums jumped into the fry
ing pans, the sweet potatoes begun
starting from the ground, and a grand
piano slid in through the sun-parlor,
which accounts for the echoes still rever
berating down the deer park, and the
bombardment which so utterly routed
the bobwhite encamped on the shores of
the Drowning Creek Plantation.
Night is the time when the weary sol
dier returning home (sure, I'm a weary
soldier Don't me and Sheriff Blue keep
the wild populace off the sacred putting
tee on festive occasions, in guise of a
sad R. M.f) as I say, when the weary
wayworn wanderer is borne to his own
native shore, the bright lights and the
warm glow from the windows of the re
turning migrants brings balm to tht
lonesome soul. It was worth a hundred
dollars to me to be greeted by the Dor-
mie ablaze like a liner at sea, after
these dismal nights of darkness
The T. A. McGraws have arrived from
Pittsburg. And they no sooner arrived
than out go the peach critics to inspect
and investigate the summer's clearing
and the season's prospect. Forgot is
brassie and cleek and make it lillies,
bugs, San Jose scale, April buds and
the June drop fill the whole world; Not
Joffre, but Emory Smith, tamer of
horses, is the hero of the hour. Not
peace, but peaches enthrall the conclave
and the caucus, at which on occasions
are to be found Harry Waring, Ben
Butler and Derby of DroAvning Creek,
Pompey, Doodle and Tachymeter Bill.
Not Socrates but Hutt is the ultimate
authority.
And across the way welcome is the
gleam pouring from La Cassita come to
life airain. This time under the new
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The Largest and Best Appointed Hotel in the Carolinas
Private baths, telephones in all rooms, elevators, sleeping porches,
every possible convenience.
Open November 10th to Middle of April
H. W. PRIEST, Manager, Pinehurst, N. C.
THE flOhhY IJS1JM
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SEASON: JANUARY TO APRIL 30
The Holly Inn is one of the most comfortable, attractive and
popular hotels in the South. With its annexes, the Radcliffe and
the Magnolia, the hotel has accommodations for 200 guests.
F. C. ABBE, Manager, Pinehurst, N. C.
The Berkshire
The Berkshire is a modern hotel, delightfully located, with all
conveniences for health and comfort ; bath rooms, steam heat, open
fires, electric lights and sanitary plumbing.
J. M. ROBINSON, Manager, PINEHURST, N. C.
THE LEXINGTON
Pinehurst, N. C.
Hteam Heat, Electric Lights, Batha,
Excellent Table. Moderate Rate
EDWARD FITZGERALD, Manager;
THE PINE CREST INN
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A recent delightful addition te
FInehnrst's Hotels
MODERN THROUGHOUT,
Mr&. E. C. Bliss.
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