The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-16
Country Life.


distance and exclaim again and again,
"Who wouldn't live in the countryw
The air is so pure and light one uncou-
sciously throws back the shoulders to fill
the lungs with what it is delight to
breathe. We have no need for patent chest
expanders here where there is total lack
OF calculated alleys and slop-wagon, and
gas-pipes that were born to leak On the
contrary we sniff grass and clover, as crisp
and green as in June, and the mellow brown
earth in the freshly plowed fields, sugges-
tive Of golden gram and the busy hum of
flying wheels next harvest do not be-
eve Cinclnnatus would have stopped in
the middle of lurrow if he had owned
patch of ground in our neighborhood.
j. Frost, Esq, has lett his card few
mornings but the trees are cooring slowly
and have lost SO little foliage it is impossi-
bic to realize that the misguided individ-
uals whom persuasive land agents have led
to settle in "the great northwest" are shlv-
ering in the "caud blast that whistles
through bare branches and forces them to
measure cut feed to animals crowded into
close barns, while ours are fattening on
grassy bottom lands. Sometimes we have
cold autumns, but they are exceptions.
Darius says not o leaf was left on the trees
in the door yard twenty years ago the first
of October.
One way in which the country exce!ls
the town is the small expense of keeping
up an establishment compared with one OF
the same style. Freaks of fancy in wall
paper, upholstery and china, do not strike
here with such frequency and severity
Consequently house can be made quite
inviting and charming, that in town would
be horribly looking in embroidered ban
ners, tabe-scaris ct cetera, for anything
There the house wife has to contend with
ambitious next-door neighbors and notions
of decorative art brought from all habita0e
quarters Of the subIunary sphere. A pleas
ing enough state to be in if the purse and
natural taste point that way but purgatory
oyershadowed if one have the last without
the first.
Here our greatest rival is nature, scarcely
rival either, since she generously lends
her beauty to those who know how to use
it. Proof of this may be found III one OF
the liveliest homes in tins county. APP
preached by winding drive whose grace
full curves carry the visitor under dropping
branches, past noble eyergreens and luxu-
rant growths of shrubbery, the entrance Is
made across an ample porch lavishly draped
with vines of many varieties. Once inside
an ever so unobservant eye cannot tall 10 DC
attracted and pleased. The room IS a bow
er OF beauty, owing to the taste and efforts
of the ladies who live in it. No decorative
art union, nor fashionable upholsterer, was
called in to assist" in its creation, for this
family has lost the traditional silver spoon
But turn which way one will, plants,
branches of winged gum, sprays OF elena
tbs, dainty pressed ferns, masses of brilliant
leaves. here and there birds wing, or
curious lichen, ARE presented to view.
Stripped OF all these and transported to
25xlO0 feet town lot, this house, now so
: delightful to visit, would be a barn.like
shell with a mere suspicion of paint left on
the outside, a perfectly plain implanted
porch, an inexpensive carpet peppered with
sparks from the fire place, scandaousIy
cheap wall paper chairs shockinglY anti
ouated as to both style and age, the frames
to- the few engraypgs keeping them COM
pany.
Yes, there is no use to deny the fact that
good deal of taste with little money,
goes a long ways in the country. Still
towns have few good qualities, II men
does make them.
Two days later should say they had
sometimes Look at Boston, home OF cuI-
ture and arstocracy, locality favored with
the essence of the good ship Mayhower
Boston, Bunker Hill, Boston, in the state of
Massachusetts,. Now turn to New York
City, the great mercantile center of this
great continent; and lastly but not leastly
to Cairo, so near to us that we do not have
to pinch ourselves to make sure we are not
dreaming that at last RIeur and not
MIaur aud Pulaski County has carried the
day
Long live his excellancy, Grover Cleve-
land, President of all these United States.
MRS DARIUS GREEN.
Cache. Nov. 8, 1884.