New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-25
JTOHE TOR U4Y.


TORK TOR nay
inst q word il season to those OF orr coun-
try readers who expect TO clear the years cx-
pcu,cs by taking Summer boardcrs. Part of
the work of May to the town Householder IS
to hunt ont these country lodgings and pant
OF is work to the f4rmcr ought to be to make
the lodgings he offers worth the money which
he will be paid for them. Our advertising
columns show how the keepers of "summcr-
ing places" are beginning to Happle for
their customers. "Will you walk into my
"parlor! say these spiders to the fly with an
inyariablo hint rs to the highly genteel fur
nlsbing Of the parlor and another hint that
the fly "must be first class" and bnnS best
references. Now fashionable society and a
band AMI boats and other proofs Of contility
are good things for those who want them in
the country, but there are other more lomcly
requisites which il is high time that hotel and
farmhouse keepers should provide to which
they have hitherto paid little attention.
the average Ncw-Yorkcr, whatever his
means, sends his family to the country be
cause he IS vaguely Convinced that pure air in
the Summer will keep thcm in health through
the year; besides, the beauties Of Nature are
populary supposed 80 have a beneficial effect
upon the minds Of children. For himself, he
runs down on Saturdays sometimes sWciter'
in the hot Office the rest OF the tiMc and pays
the bills chcoriully when the Summer Is over.
Living has been twice rs dear as it would
have been at home, it is true, but pure air
Arcadian beauty, etc, etc. The fact Is, he IS
no Judge of good air and knows very It'll"
about the aesthetic influences o! the country.
lie has hazy idea of bcneiicent Nature
preparing, through rosy dawns and pearly
dews and either Ely>ianic machinery. ycecta-
blcs ana snipe for the market, and believes
that il will take his boys and gil, in hand
and make them strong and rosy. Instead Of
which, bis wife came home last Fail with no
end Of neuralgia, the children are sallow and
thin. and his ncighbor Browns family, who
were at one of the scctaIian seaside places,
were LAID up with typhoid all through Scptcm-
Der.
He and Brown and every other man in New
Yorl, have an infaliblc medical system or doe
tor to cure them Of these Ills. But little
care and common sense in his hunt for board
Ing in May would save doctors bills, suffering,
and perhaps life itself in September. First,
the drainage about the country house should
be looked to. Drainage has come to be a sci
cncc TOO vast, as even the town householder
feels for him to Grapple. The farmer has no
time 10 study theories or mathematical prob
lens. no mind to ride Il culyerJ for a hobby,
and no money to give to experts for looking
into the condition of his cellars and wells. IL
takes half of an average income to hunt out
rnrtive bad smell in town house with the aud
Of one Of these scientific Nimrods. The farm
cI's cellars and outhonscs and bad smells
are therefore iucxoraby let alone. Ten TO
one he banks up his cellar windows in October
to keep ont fresh air, and fills up the cellars
with potatoes and apples and all the Winter
stores, as his father did before him, and sits
down 10 eat and breathe them, and to see
children and wife grow yellow and skinny as
the family have been for generations. The
cellar is still foul and unalred in the Summer,
when the Summer boardcr, arrive, and barn
yard, pig-sty, and outhouses are simply
denominations smelling high to heaven. The
air blowing through Broadway in July from
the bay is sweet compared to that hanging
around half of these low-lying fmm-hou>cs
and hotels The great religious camps and
cheap resorts are for the most part not
drained at al, and 10 system has been
observed in rcmoyn garbage The conse-
qucncc has been the prevalence Of low fcycrs
al many of them during the latter part OF the
Summer.
\ second preventive Of disease in the coun-
Try is wholesome food. TownSpeople, Is rule,
know better than farmers how to feed their
children properly. They would prefer good
plain food. well cooked and plenty Of 1t, to
any attempt at city style in the service, an
attempt which must of necessity be msem-
bic failure Let the hotel and clearinghouse
keeper give mp the idea Of band, or piano,
or negro walters imported from New ok,
and spend the money instead in cleaning his
drains, sinking his pits to the gravel, buying
comfortable spring-brds, and hiring somebody
who can make good bread and sweet butter