Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-08-05
GOING TO THE COUNTRY.
How the Sponge -Famflsy~ sPsad-Thoir
Summer Holiday.

The summer holiday is each year
becoming more and more of social
necessity. Whether for-a long or
short term all city folks must go to-
the country. Some patr0nize the
large and costly hotels, while others
with less capacious pockets but with
stomachs of equal capacity . with
those of the people who put more
money in circulation seek health and b
fatness in the private boardlng-ho
But there is q large class Of pleasure
seekers, more thrifty than. either OF
these, who are averse to squandering
their precious dollars on hostelfies OF
any kind, Having relations who. live
in the country these people plan =, .
visit, the only expense of which win
be the transportation of themselves
and their baggage. In the assurance
that their country cousins will he tle- +,
lighted to see them they, go in full
force-father, mother, several young
children and the baby. 1t is by no
means an unusual thing for such peo-
! pie also to infliet on their rural rels-
tions y nurse whose business 1t is to
take care of the baby. When the re-
lations are plain people who live on
a farm and attend in person to most
of their household work the nurse
girl is one of the chief burdens in.
volved in the entertainment of the
party. especially il sue be gwen to
putting on city airs, as she gener-
ally is. 1853 ~ So" - ''-
We are told that ssthe Assyrian
came down like the wolf on the fold,''
and this is the way in !, which. the
Sponge family bestows itself ON its
country relations. True, the citi-
zens do not come with that spirit OF
hostility which animated the army of
Ben-hadad when tencamped beforsg
Samaria. The result, however, is
much the same. The arriving army
has neglected to send any Word of
its intended movements. u It's lesders
have Supposed that o country peopls
were always at home and always
ready. The city man knows that
milk and vegetables and other pro-
duce come from the country and that
they are raised on FARMS sThasoii it
can be any trouble Or expense. to
farmers TO prepare these things for
the mouths oil hungry guests, does
not occur to him. Therefore, with
his family, he descendsa on his vic
Tins about noon on,wash,days Hor-
ror seizes, the farmsT'ss wife %, the
perspiring, relstlAnsi are discerned
coming up the lane. City people
, can in emergency send to the neigh
) boring grocer and butcher and make
| Immediate provision Hfor sudden
guests, In the country it ise differ
| ent. The f.,wls which would have
: been imprisoned for fattening and
: slaughter, had the unweicoihc whit
n ors been sexpected,E and oranaing -,
3 large, without ssspiciops Of the doom
+ awaiting, them. Their lnckless necks
|. must be twisted that dinner may. be
I ready in an hour Afeantimef the
+ city folks tell tho fsrrner'G wife no,
!. TO put herself ont Of aN on tAeitl lac-
d count, AID not 70 make any company
I OF them. She thinks they have come
q for dinner only, xnti wifi surely *
. home by she safteeADsa, o. ieSeni6t
i train. But While sat dinass tae d.
e tressi reaches its rlimax On Sbe salraYa
: of Q wagon load OF trunks and bun,
d dies. She then idisc0veTs th,t Dc
y ttk;usf.,llr keso s.fsSnA "a Il a. dnSYh u N