Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-09-13
WAY DOWN SOUTH.
|untajns and LOwlands-DifIerent
Kinds of Hospitality.
BY W. W.

Kinds Of Hospitality.
BY W. W.
Pre- is any convertible term il
glish language that should be
do duty upon occasion when
pose is to draw the lines betwixi
aud sneir fruition in relation to
y-day walks of life, it is that
Pspitality when it is applied
|ty in widely-separated and
marked sections of our com
|ntry.
with the people of the mount
|cts of the South, it generally
|eely sharing for a night, upon
what slender and crude re-
Fhey had in possession, in the
untry below itmeant, in certain
Us or weeks of luxurious enter
comprised in fine dinners,
pr fishing excursions, and what
could be devised to enable the
have o good time of it gener-
Eht here comes in the scripture
bn while poverty in the
region gave Of its all, even if
| |ite," wealth below gave of its
be-; and sometimes, in rejecting
primitive and scant means of
wild and out-of-the-way places,
is led to wonder whether peo-
e largely advanced in wealth
fort, in all that appertains to
old and prosperous community
pr such really appreciate Their
n from many of the evils and
rts to which those referred to
ling in remoter regions and
walks of life are subject.
Q occasion, being detained by
in a locality where my only
md boarding-place among the
ls was an old log-oabin, half
|, perhaps, for three weeks of
her, alternating with sunshine,
tied out of my bed by a thun-
/ at night, and left no alterna-
10 ensconse myself on a spare
ed on the floor under it, glad
the upper one my tent, as it
be poor woman who presided
household arrangements of
thrifty establishment shall 1
BET the entire patience with
be next bit of sunshine that
would proceed to hang upon
b close by the soaked articles
d so highly, and for which she
he premises, no adequate shell
the rain. And when the good
easy-going, pipe-smoking hus-
from time to time appealed to
the leaky roof, and promised
4 again that he would do SO
h and such a task was accom-
Fas it not something to wonder
admire, the patience of the
IAN with her oft-repeated dis
|entsp
Bult, indeed, of my sojourn un-
persistently-leaky and sieve
board" roof was that, for more
IN 1 stayed there, after / left l
get over the habit, even under
roofs of the city, of expecting,
it set in for a heavy rain, a
ght down upon myself almost
D. Indeed, 1 got to slightly
6 how roofs could be made
p, incredulous from habit and
often victimized, SO far as a
king might be in the case.
contrast to this kind of enter
was that within the power OF
thy when one got out from
he hills. Before the war, it
noted, hospitality 80 called
ry little, comparatively, to the
f fell-to-do entertainer; little OF
} the host, and little of trouble
usehold. The produce raised
|iinner resulting was almost en-
/ work of servants. And how
looked upon by the average
planter, when the war so greatly
d with the old arrangements,
exempified by q conversation
tear in one of our cities where
|assengers were compelled to be
told you have given up the old
Virginia?" was the query OF q
pparently, to a portly, substan-
ing old gentleman who had just
aboard.
was the reply; @my wife and
Fould not stand the country any
You see," he continued, shat
> times we had no trouble, be-
|nen the girls came home from
Elth theirbeaux there was some
lake or Jim-to take their
while dinner was all ready to
the table. Since the war, the
have left, or gotten things
IN way, and 80 / found I had to
\ horses, and the old lady she
getthe dinnerl No, we couldn't
Y any longer, so / just sold out
Ne TO the city; and, although ]
lSe it, | couldn't stand the new
DOING things."
would be difficult TO state the
ae more succinctly and striking
@ II was given in this little
Episode at the accidental meet
"0 old friends, While the "hos