New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-31
SKINNER .SATLSEICTIONS.

| Annually there is discussion of the comparative
advantages of town or country life during the dog
DAYS Ii Is a question, like others depending upon
personal tastes, which is never settled Those who
cannot got away find comfort in spacious houses in
| domestic arrangements to which they are accus-
! toned in well-supplied markets, and IN occasional
! suburban excursions. Perhaps, as Americans thoy
also derive consolation from being III the majority
! Nevertheless. il must be admitted that IN New
York it is considered the proper thing to start just
now or a little later for some where for shore or
| mountain for farmhouse a megatherium OF a
| hotel for the Alps or the Rocky Mountains.
Our advertising columns sufficiently show that
rustic prOpretOrs and country hosts or all descrip-
| tons anticipate no abatement of the old fashion,
| which after all has, unlike many fashions, COM
| mon sense at the bottom of it, Change when it is
occasional and not perpetual, is healthful and in
| MIGRATING, especially to those who can be sure
| that they need it. We get things in the country
which it is not easy to get in the town-reSt; early
hours OF sleeping and waking; gllmpses OF the IN
describable beauty of Nature; and an escape from
| tho wearisome monotony of daily pursuits. The
proof that wo need those to be found IN annual
hunger for them Many of liz came from these
| pleasant scenes which are like pictures in the
| memory; and we now and then experience a
| great longing to return to them for q little while
| We would see and hear again the ocean upon the
| SILVER shore Of which We have srolled in
infancy We would tread once more the mazes Of the
| wood which first tempted us to play the vagabOnd
We would from the old hilltop. see the sun rise and
! tho sun set Though we have found new and
| happy homes, we cannot forget that home was
! once there, and was also blessed. We crowd mo
| cites like bees into hive, but we are never
rid Of our laundering for the garden from y hich all
the tribes of men have proceeded. 10 Is hackneyed
that saying of Cowper that i'God made tho
| country and man made the town" but every
| Summer we feel the truth of it, as If wo heard
| il for the first time So we plant parks within
hearing of tho civic hum, and the poorest likes to
| have potted plant or two upon tho ledge OF his
| window The whole earth once one great
rural district and though it is all for the best that
it is SO no longer yet who is not glad that we cam
| not cover the whole surface with houses, cannot
| fill all the air with the noise of industry and
with the smoke of machinery nor, spite OF all
our buying and selling of real estate, quite abolish
| the andscapef
The stoutest and most persistent of rs need rest
which ~ as much according TO the law OF our being
as labor It is nearly true if not quito so, that the
oycr.worker does little better than the lazy. That
lie into the scheme of which relaxation enters
NAV produce great material results, and may for a
time escape the penalty of oyerdoing; but according
TO tho best of human experience it is neither wise
nor a prudent one. Ii Is encouraging TO think that
| Summer may bring renewed health and strength,
! innocent enjoyment, O recognition of neglected
| beauties and recuperation of the jaded senses.
Welcome then these months in which the earth, in
the flush and fairness Of new vitality. appeals 20
the finest and most delicate OF senses aud per