Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-23
EMPTY CASTLES.
THEIR RICH OWNERS NOT FITTED
TO BE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN.

TO BE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN.
Hs is One Thing to Have "a Country
..scat." and Quite Another Thing To be
at Home and Happy In It-A Remark
able Exhibit
There is a tendency among men of large
wealth." said real estate dealer down
town, Ito establish big country houses
near New York and live after the English
fashion. They seek to make their country
place the home of the family, give 1t
high sounding title, dream Of establish
ing family which shall stand high in the
county and make a name for itself IN
dozen honorable ways. They take fur
nished house in town for the season, just
As the Englishman does for eight weeks
In London. This Is growing more prac-
ticable here than formerly, as the season
grows shorter every year. We can all OF
us remember when society came back to
New York on Sept. / and stayed till
June. Now November is considered early,
December acceptable, but Jan. l the
really proper time. This gives an oppor-
tunity for spending Christmas at the
country house in the old fashioned way.
BY May 10 half Of society is ON the move
again to Europe or elsewhere. So, you
see, q great city establishment Is sup
ported all the year round by the old plan,
though occupied less than five months out
of the twelve. Ii is very expensive run
ming town house all the year ronnd this
way, but when a furnished dwelling is
taken and only four months are spent here
the expenditure is greatly reduced. The
other eight months are spent at the coun
try house.
THE TROUBLE WITH AMERICANS.
"On the other side of the water this
Is easily accomplished, because the real
home of an Englishman is in the
country, and he looks upon city life as an
excursion. The trouble here is that
Americans look upon their out-of-town
life as a vacation in the country, and
hence they grow dissatisfied if IL is too
much prolonged. They feel themselves
above their neighbprs and do not make
acquaintances, so That there is no visit
ing and calling among them, Thus the
family gradually bores itself TO despera-
tion. &riends are invited out from town
only at rare intervals, and there is gen.
eral stagnation. The women do not in
terest themselves in the churches and
schools of the villages nor do the men take
q hand In politics or local improvements.
The head of the family is usually bust
ness man who has been accustomed TO the
drive and rush of the city, and who Is
quite at sen if thrown on his own re-
sources. He has no inclination for read
ing, is not interested in farming, and
thinks constantly about his interests in
the city. IL IL takes three generations to
make \ gentleman, il takes five ut least
10 make country gentleman or a gentle
man farmer.
The New Yorker who is anxious to
become country gentleman does what
the Londoner avoids. Our merchant
seems proudest when he can boast that
his residence is only fifty-four minutes
out OF town-or something like Il. He
cannot give up his town life altogether,
and in trying to sit ON two stools at once
he comes to grief. The only way to live
In the country is to give up the city alto
gether, and make tie rural place the
home Running in to 20 10 the theatre at
night, and then travelling home, is no way
to establish a contented feeling, you
know The big estates that are good
Journey from New York are always sue
sassfui but all that bav. In this hook
snd manv more have failed society has
sone,hing m do with II Of conrse
A REMARKABLE EXHIBIT.
away ironi NeM l"rh ,ne resiaen.s ~
make ,heir own soeiey, anu ai1 s, Ion,'
snch piaces as NeM na.en' nai',oru,
Eimii,a, anu o,nei . enia,i ei'ie' oi..n na,e
oenghtIuny cuI.''a'eu anu co,1la, so
ciety' whlle points nearer we" torh are
very unsausiac,ory' pecause Ihey are
ihaae up Oh o"aruins nouses' eonllliu'eis,
al'l summer res,neh's o,liSI Now we n
run through this poos-ahu IL Is only one
oi eignl uv,o'eu ,, " ..',s s's,e " p,uPvS
anu you see VIVA. ie'iias h'se s,,u i"ii'iies
lew hundred OF our AMBITIOUS hiiii'oh-