The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-27
ToWn and CoanIFy,

New York Herald.
Because some city people have country
places with oil town conYenienceS and be-
cause some farmers daughters play on the
piano and take the fashion papers, there
are writer's who mourntully declare that
the old distinctions between town and
country which once made either one 70
delightful to tho denizsns Of the other
have been abolished. II these writers
will go . hundred or more miles from New
York and spend the summer at the house
OF some vel. to- do farmer who takes
boarders merely for the sake Of having
company far his wife aud daughters,
they may iud some reason TO modify
their impressions, II In the city q man
wakes al dawn he has blinds to exclude
the light, 60 that he can 20 10 sleep again;
but In many q country home the blind or
shutter 10 regarded as an expensive and
useless vanity 60 the boarder from the
city may either rise with the lark and
atarve before breakfast time, or lie per.
spring In the yellow glare, The goblet Of
cold water, dear 10 men who do not take .
morning cocktail instead, and dearer 10
those who drank from bottles the night
before, 10 not 10 be- had, for the farmer
keeps leo only to harden his butter. He
may refer the bosrder to the we'll, but
country we'll water that does not taste bad
andsmOll worse 10 rare, In the city the
breakfast 10 served either hot or cold,
but In the country 1t generally Ia
lukewarm, and cooked either too much or
too little. The flies eat At the fret table,
Tor hy sCreens for dishes are almost I'M.
known, Country coffee has at the least
the merit Of originality, but thera are
things that are not improved by being
original. The boArder who breakfasts for
the first time at such q house consoles
himself, perhaps, by the thought that
some OF the many vegetables he sees from
his window will DO served for dinner be-
fore they can undergo the willing process
peculiar to vegetables In the city. And he
Ia right, but only because the beets are
too strong, the potatoes too hard and
the lettuce too old 10 wilt. Besides,
they are generally very severe with
veal, on which the farmer In summer de.
ponds "a utterly az the Israelites did on
mama, and the veal Is served 10 cubes ID.
stead Of slices. Alter dinner It 10 delight.
full to lounge IN the shade, but few farm.
ers have any II they can help II; q tree 10
the bayfield, Tor men to rest under 10 sum.
mer Ia all very well, but q tree near q
house makes women and children lazy;
they want to sit under II all the time.
There 10 tho orchard II the boarder wants
shade, but In the orchard are the pigs, so
that wormy apples may be eaten and the
worms and their eggs be kept
from making more mischief. The
shady side Of the house might
do II the fimily refuse heap was not there
In the city q daily bath seems an absolute
necessity, but when the farmer 10 inter.
viewed on the subject he says that once q
year they make up q party and drive to
the nearest river or beach for o bath,
though sometimes they miss Il. For dl
versions outside the house the boarder
may 90 to a slsughterine or a prayer meet.
ing, though sometimes q circus may come
within o lew miles. After q few days OF
experience like those alluded 10 the city
boarder is quite willing to return 10 his
home on the hot side oil q noisy street, Tor
there he can at least cat something during
the day and not be eaten oil through the
night.