New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-26

his way Of looking for it," Perhaps he has
heard from chronic grumbers that the regions
adjacent to New-York City are infested with
chls and fever and mosq uitoes. His first batch
of answers for comfortable home with all
the luxnries of country life" settles that cal
umny, for behold at the end of every reply
stand the words, "No mosquitoes and no ma
laria.r Il is positive fact that no mosquito has
ever been heard of within radius OF forty
miles around New-York by any of the natives
of that region. The city boardcrs have no DIM
Guilty in hearing them, but the native never
hears them. This is an auricular curiosity
which we should like to see scientifically ex-
planned.
Having received his answers the sanguine
investigator thinks he will run out on an early
train. look at few of the places, and get back
TO business by noon at the latest Perhaps he
was somewhat surprised by the number OF
eligible farmhouses which his replies had re-
veaed to him as being "wthin five minutes
walk of the depot" If he were, it was because
he was new in the business. We are assured
by an old and experienced country boarder
that he has never discovered n house adapted
to the purposes Of summer board which was not
precisely that distance from the station. COun-
try ideas of the walking abilities of city people
are exceedingly complimentary. The universal
opinion seems to be that the ordinary city man
can walk from two to four miles within five
minutes with the greatest ease. Perhaps TINS
belief has been disseminated by the pedestrian
matches, and the making of 600 miles in SIX
days may be the average bucOlic idea of the
city mans rate of speed. At all events, the be-
lief exists and our inexperienced friend finds
himself face to face with it when the station
master of the first place he stops ut tells him the
farmhouse he inquiries about is between two
and three miles away. When he reaches 1t he
is likely to find that it is not farmhouse at
all that instead Of having "plenty OF grass
and shade" it is well surrounded with yellow
mud and a few discouraged and scraggy trees.
Instead of an hour or two he may spend day
in this sort of exercise and investigation, and
return to the city wiser in his estimate of rural
simplicity, but with little to show for his day S
work save the knowledge of several places to
which he does not wish to go.
All this is discOuraging, but it is necessary
part of fathers education. After month or
so if he continues to advertise aud to investi-
gate, he will find precisely what he desires, and
will pass a summer of some delight and good
deal of railroad train. There is one thing,
however, which he never will find, and that is
a place where there are any chills and fever.
He will come very near to it, but never III
actual contlct-at least not till he begins to
shake If he asks if there is any malaria i'll the
place, the reply will be prompt and emphatic ::
" Bless We, not Where on airth did ye git that
"notion We never had a case OF malaria III
/" this town, but over yondcr in the town across
"thc crik-they have it there awful. I'm told
they shake so over there they have to hoop
"themselyes to keep from falling to pieces"