Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-23
VOL. 71.-3645. NO. As.

simple mountain aud walking costumes
which the city girls have brought with them
and give the more elaborate, aud often the
uglier styles, the go.by Then there would
be time for healthy recreation.
Phmbe feels il hard that she must eternally
drudge at dish-washing and table-setting
aud serving, while the boarders go off on pic
MICS, aud straw-rdes, and delightful excur-
sions 10 the glen, and the ravine, and the
lake, with big baskets Of cold chicken, and
sandwiches, and doughnuts, and bottled cof-
fee aad lemonade, which she has packed un-
der the back seat Of the wagon. Yes, there
they go gaily down the mountain-side, sing
ing Upidee or the horse-car poetry and
when they come back, the moon is shining
on the dewy trees, making weird and lovely
shadows, and those girls look like nymphs
with their hats crowned with garlands of
leaves aud wild flowers.
Little Phoebe has warm. young blood IN
her heart, q light step and merry tongue !;
but sometimes her life seems so poor and
scrimped beside those favored boys and girls
who have such an immense capacity for
amusing themselves, and getting what they
call "fun " ont of existence, that the milk of
human kindness In her turns sour. She
votes Miss Bates stuck up" and then Miss
Bates lends her some books and shows a new
crochet stitch and little Phoebe is humbled
by her kindness. Phobe knows in her heart
that the boarders have been social mission
aries there in the farmhouse. One OF them,
few seasons ago, taught her mother how to
make good, wholesome yeast bread and rolls
in place Of the saleratus denominations the
family had always eaten. She had shown
her how TO broil steak, 10 make an ome-
lette, and TO concoct many delicate puddings
and sauces never before known in that region.
One Of the boarders loved flowers, and got
in the wav Of adorning the table with bou-
quets of wind blossoms and ferns. Phebe
has caught up the art, and now cultivates
such simple, hardy blooms as institutions
petunias, geraniums and pansies TO give
touches of brightness to the homely rooms.
Those boarders first showed her how 10
wreathe the looking glass and photographs
and those dreadful mouo-chromatic pictures
Malyiny drew the term she went away 10
school with princess pine, and TO press au-
tumn leaves, and to make cone frames aud
moss baskets.
Though little Phnbe sometimes tastes the
root Of bitterness in thinking Of how much
is given to some, and how much denied 10
Others still she knows all the boarders, and
the books they have brought with them
have awakened in her new impulses and
feelings. To be sure some of them have
been selfish and exacting, and have made
trouble; but those who really love the
country for its own sake she votes nice.
The people who come out because it is the
fashion to leave town during certain months
in the year are not so easily satisfied. Phnbe
has bad her view of things broadened out.
She does not mean TO settle down into a
mere drudge, like the people around where
she lives and next winter she is going TO
the academy at s., privilege her hard
listed old father never would have accorded
to her, except for the money brought in by
those boarders.-Ch Christian Register.