New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-21
uyDSUyuFR GROWLING.


lowing notice con,picuOusly in every guest
chamber of his house: "lf there is anything
- that does not suit You, don't go about growl-
"ing, but come to me-" This Is compIehen-
siyc. Il tends to concentrate the worry ana
opposition Of the travelling public ana puts
this Yankee Boniface In permanent alliance
with his customers as Their sympathetic Trend
and the stern ayengcr of their wrongs. But
the tendencies of human nature are not easily
reversed TO "go about growing Is
an Anglo-SaXOn instinct which Americans
have inherited. 1t is one OF the inallenaDie
rights which jefferson forgot to catalogue Ill
the Declaration. On the mountains, at the
springs, or by the sca, 1t is the shadow OF Il
ar.at rock. What would Summer holiday be
worth if one were denied the blessed privilege
Of growing about the beds, the meals, or the
servants? TO report sins of omission and COM
mission at the desk would be Il tame and
spiritless undertakings There is untold salts
faction in snarling at the chambernaid. abash-
ing the hall-boy browbeating the waiter, and
exchanging growls with fclow-yictims on the
piazza.
Once upon time there was great state
dinner on Olympus, and MercHfy was sent to
earth to summon II stupid little mortal to the
feast There was nectarean hPplc on draught,
and on the cloth was gOurmandse conicctloned
by cooks who had learned the poetry OF
kitchen work. All the gods were there lobe
filled the cups and the MUSES. the pauscs.
When the little man returned TO earth his
urighbors were naturally very inqusitiye DID
the immortalS were dfcss-cOatsi which OF the
yoddesses, did .Jove take down to dinner, and
WAS ,Juuo Jealous withal! Did Jove say
grace did Apollo make the first pun, and did
Minerva drop into poetry! Did Venus il1t
with Mars, and was Bacclus very boozy Z
What was there to eat and drink, and what
did the gods find to talk about? Alas! the
little man had nothing 10 say about the regi-
men, the etiquette, OF the social graccs OF the
Olympians. His napkin, he said, ought by
rights to have been in the waSn; 1t was
creased and soied, and there were two big
holes in it. Oh yes; and IIebc, clumsy wench
that she was, spilled some ambrosla on his
shirt front. That was all that he could rcmem-
Der of the banquet on Olympus.
Lotos-eating was evidently too high diet for
this stupid little mortal. But was he not after
all typical Traveller? The young tourist who
has been up and down the continent, loaing
on the boulevarGs, tramping through cathe-
DIR Is and staring the Madonnas ont OF counte-
nance has returned to his club. lie has seen
what many-Oh so very many .-thoughtlu
and earnest souls yearn to see. Has his inner
nature been enlarged. On the master nights
of opportunity has he been promoted TO be
come his nobler self 4? Or has he come back
with the impression that there are bad beds
In. in \1,,lpS.
bcdbugs in Rome, that German cookery Is
essentially VILE, that the worst beer in Eu'
rome is brewed on the Alps, that they
can't keep hotel out Of the United States,
and that Murray'S hand-bO0ks are not SO con-
vcncnt as American railway guides! In Il
few weeks the Summer tourist will he back
from the mountains or the coast to join him
at billiards. While brains have been adding
and pulses feverng IN the blaze of the city,
he has had his Summer rest. Has 1t done
aught to sSccten his lte1 Have the broad
prospects OF the ocean widened the horizon OF
his soul so that henceforth life will be larger
and more generous! Have the mountains Sug-
gestcd nobf thoughts that will rise high above
the dead l;ycls of business Alas he has
gone abont growing" until his holiday is
spent The ragged napkin and the clumsy
wcnch have crowded out of memory the lotos-
eating and the hannonics of the Muses.
eff there is anything that does not suit you
"don't go about growing but come to me-"
This Nantucket landlord may not have sounded
the depths OF human nature, but he has struck
bottom here. II he can only cram this wis
dom Of his down the Threats OF his guests,
ami not suffer them to sleep it Oft, he will
teach them to make the most of their Summer
holiday.