The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-24
Special Correspondence.
DAYTON, ND, Sept. 8. Isl

DEAR STAR:-After travelling aud
visiting more than two months |
am "home at last and | can Say
with the poet,
BE IT ever humble there Is place like home"
! have been at many II social boar"
aud heard the mirth and jest of
triend-, some with the hoary head
and others smiling in the joy oil
youth, have watched the ebb and
flow of the worlds inhabitanl.
where c5bs and flows the tide, bn'
mid all these home lost no charms
L" learn of life, real, matter OF tac''
life, go anywhere bnt to watering
place. Here everything but jn
and gladness seems lefI behind.
Labor exists among the things that
were, or is hidden in the corner ct
the back kitchen. Every thing
looks toward cnj y ment, and he
who finds it not here, must be hard
TO be entertained. There sec'us to
be nothing in the world greater than
pleasure and all must be pleased.
Who ever heard of a nancy panic
at Il Summer resort! ! have often
heard persons in the city, possess
ing homes which were miniatures
of Paradise, with ample yards, beau
tiful gardens and walks, talk "t go.
ing into the country, perhaps to II
house with three hundred boarders.
for the promotion Of the health Of
their families; my thinking cap cX
pands with wonder on sucll Occa-
sinns. There are instances of pep
pie living in the crowded pirts of
cities, who might be bet;ered by
leaving for the country, but IT one
has ever so neat a home j, il en-
trcmcly vulgar to remain in it dur
ing the Summer. As for comfort
there is more of that in many "A
plain home than on the dusty thor
Oughfare or in the crowded house
of some favori,e resort at the sca-
side would not object to travel
ing, certainly, but to leaving merely
because it is fashionable.
AS the diver loaded down his
hack with our trunks, Some one re
ma, ked This looks like the closing
mp of Summer" I, for my part,
am really thankful that for several
months, at least, there is to be nj
more packing of trunks.
Tho difference between the
noosier and the Yankee dialect il
somewhat interesting. A Yankee
calls the vessel in which he carries
water a pail, but you might talk Ia
a Iloosier boy until he would l.,
"right smart" blind and he woul,
not know you meant a bucket, when
you said pail. In Connecticut,
Bridget cooks meat in spider
while in Indiana spider only
catches flies. The Yankees gener
ally speak more correctly than the
Hoosiefs.
I have asked myself, where are
the prayers of the wives. mothers
and sisters, which, last Winter, as
cended 80 earnestlya Have they
all been answered. If so, many
more should be offered. saw
creatures in first class car win
had swallowed that which burns NJ
tho soul, until they were senseless
desplcable objects. Another in til.
station house was Keeling to and fr,
so drunk that he did not know III,
own baggage. Poor creatures
they need the prayers of all theil
loved ones.
| / am now in this little town, m,
chosen home, for the present. AL
is beautiful about rs. Fruit an,
flowers mingle their charms. Dc
casionally there is signing like {
wall of Nature for departing Sum
mer, and again the voices of the
whispering brcczes at twilight, ar,
rs soft as the voices of those around
tho concb of one they know to bt
about to depart. We prepare fol
The departure of the Summer of til,
year, and yet so careless concern
ing the passing OF the summer o.
our liveel
Dear Star, | wish there was M
danger Of wearying you, tor 1 fee
like writing, bnt lest may, will
say Good Bye.
l.. l.. A. II.