Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-02
COUNTRY VISITERS.

The whistle of the ocomotive-rumbirg of
distant carriage wheels-the approaching click
of horses hoofs upon the pavements-the drop
ping Of the carriage steps quick ring at the
door belt mutfed sound Of trunk piled on
trunk in the hall-al in the space of ten breath
less minutes, tell the story. More company!
and what is to be done? Servants have retired,
no fire in the range, and supper is expected for
the hungry and dusty traveller. Be done /? Why,
my wife says we must "break up house keeping"
That time dollars and cents are spirited away
which should be appropriated to home demands
and the education ofour children: thai servant
after servant has been sent to the Hospital worn
odt by attentions 20 tst. 4snA,a; Ngi.ea theY
shipped for service to four; or else g struck for
more wages, which we cannot give; that our
stair carpet only year in use, worn ont by
the careless dragging of baggage Wer it carefully
marked No.--street; our 10Y marked tar
dy at school,, because he is sent out Of his way
to procure carriage 10 drive our company"
to this place or that, for days yst while trunks
and band. boxes (Oh, direfu spctres J are left,
impudently procalmng that Their owners claim
the house by possession, while they are radiating
from it to different points ofcompss.
Easily done! Have you ever kept house in
the city?"
"Why, no; but it only needs little tact, and
it is done.
Supposing your company " comes supplied
with suit OF armor in the form Of brass and inn
perviousness to hints, suficemto withstand
months scige your arrows are very glavely tell
one ofyour company that hesnall- pox in max
ing alarming ravages with its vunlence, about
you, and that strangers are at pesen. afraid to
visit the cily, expecting to see her eyes start
from their sockets, and her baggage from your
F "spare chambers" but she very uoconcernedly
replies, that it is bad, yet as sht hs had it in the
, natural way" she is beyond' fears on that
point
Your wife tells another, byINy of apology,
that her house is in great dl5oder for want OF
, time to attend to her duties, aS Sc has not been
free from comp1ny for year, pd thinks for this
reason she shall give up housekeeping The
answer is, that she is ustlghb r that has been
exactly her case; but in the msntme seats her
, self at your wfe's writing deslb md very famil-
| iarly overlooks it, until writR materials are
Y found to pen an invitation to sdne friends in the
e country to meet her at your hope, where she is
making delightful visit, and Nhere they will be
4 very welcouie--and adds, bytvay of induce.
ment, "besldes, change will dIyou good"
An3ther' whom you know-!+-hepicuI c, gour-
. mand, or what not, you endeavd to sidrre out,
i until your own bones sharply refke you for your
? neglect ofyour grocer and butchfI and tell her
at the same time that on think 'ay little of creG-
= ture comforts yourself, aud that You never mako
n any change for company wi len to your utter
; horror and amazement, she disiF les to be made
t a stranger ni, and that she ShOpq mol stay huff
d so long 1you did so. There hen, is an alter
native the necessity of marching to the rattle
: Of your own dry bones, made sChrcrow by innu-
tritious diet, or starve outright, or want of means
$ to supply all the world to whom you have ever
t civilly drffed your beaver in the public streets,
offices or countngrooms Of some distant Or neigh
boring town. One friend Of Ours Is tormented
n with bface and a small half OIL visters, twice
] year, on furlough from home, who, alter wear
ing their patience to rag, as we'll as every 9TH
er article of household use, always leave by
: saying" We'll, now, as soon IS we 60 to house.
r keeping, we shall expect you to retmn our visit
i and they have boarded for ten ycars) or we
y shall certainly continue to come until you do
What prospect for the operation OF the "Qmd
pro q,tO," system.
1 have strictly charged my vito, upon penal
s ty ofan everlasting divorce, never t. invite un-
3 welcome guests, even in general way, to come
9 again, as all who do so, are justly punished fol
their insencerity. She says, in every case where
she has not, they, on bidding her reluctant adieu
=, with more than Vandal barbarity, assured bel