The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-26

II 10 a pity they do not adopt the pretty and
simple mountain aud walking costumes
which the city girls have brought with
them, and give the more elaborate, and of
ten the uglier styles, the go-by. Then
there would be time for healthy recreation.
Phoebe feels it hard that she must c.er-
nally drudge at dish washing and table,
setting and serving, while the boarders go
OIL on picncs, and straw-ridcs, and delight
ful excursions to the glen, and the ravine,
and the lake, with big baskets of cold
chicken, and sandwiches, and doughnuts,
and bottled coffee and lemonade, which
she has packed under the back seat of the
wagon. Yes, there they go gaily down the
mountan-side, singing "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 earlands of leaves
and wild flowers.
Little Phoebe has warm, young blood in
her heart, light step and a merry tongue;
but sometimes her life seems so poor and
scrimped beside those favored boys and
girls who have euch an immense capacity
for amusing themselves, and getting what
they call ''fun" out of existence, that tie
milk of human kindness in her turns eour.
She votes Miss Bates "struck up" and
then Miss Bates lends her some books and
shows new croch,i stitch and little Phoebe
is humbled by her kindness. Phoebe knows
in her heart that the boarders have been
social missionaries there in the farmhouse.
Ono of them, few seasons ago, taught her
mother how to make good, wholesome
yeast bread and rolls IN place of the saler-
atus denominations the family had always
eaten. She had shown her how to broil
steak, to make an omelctte, and to concoct
many delicate puddings and sauces never
before known in that region.
One of the bosrders loved flowers, and
got in the way of adjoining the table with
bouquets of wind blossoms and ferns.
Phoebe has caught up the art, and now Gull
tvates such simple, hardy blooms as mas
turtions, petunias, ecraniums and panses,
to give touches of brightness 10 the homely
rooms. Those boarders first showed her
how to wreathe the looking glass and pho
tographs and those dreadful mono-chrom-
attic pictures Malviny drew the term she
went away to school with princess pine,
and to press autumn leaves, and to make
cone frames and moss boskets.
Though little Phpce sometimes tastes
the root Of bitterness in thinking Of how
much is given to some, and how much de-
MED to Others, still she knows all the
boarders, and the books they brought with
them have awakened in her new impulses
and feelings. TO be cure, 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
moths of the year are not so easily satisfied.
Phoebe has had her view of things broaden
ed out. She does not mean to settle down
into mere drudge, like the people around
where che lives; and next winter she is CO.
ing to the academy at s., privilege
her hardfsted old father never would have
accorded to her, except for the money
brought in by those boarders. [Chrstian
Register.