Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
ONLY BACHELORS WANTED.
A Married Mans Vain Search for q
Children's Paradise.

comfortable, cOZv little place In tne
country where a man with family can
obtain fresh butter and new-laid eggs
and cream and green grass for the
children to run upon and-and-all that
sort of thing, at a price that would come
within reach of moderate income not
too far from the cityp"
"How far did you say the income was
from the cityp" inquired the writer,
somewhat confused
II want to live in the country" con-
tinued the first speaker, ''where my chill
dren can get fresh air from the hills;
where they can climb rocks and fences
and trees and tear their clothes and go
to bed at night robustly tired, and get
up in the morning robustly refreshed;
where they can gather the flowers that
bloom in the spring, and"
Bother tie flowers that bloom in the
spring! 10 you happen to know what
month it isP"
january, the latter part of January,
and the man who expects to luxuria.e
in quiet, comfortable, cozy little place
in the country during the coming summer
has got to begin to look about him or the
pastoral paradises will all be gobbled
up"
"Let me talk to you a minute" said
the writer. Last year we-my wife
and Thought we would 90 into the
country for the summer. My wife, my
foolish, ignorant wife, said it would be
so nice for the children. and as there
were four of them and only one of my
self the majority ruled, and we decided
to 60. And l was to look up place. l
had looked up place in the city in the
fall, and my blood still boiled at the
recollection of the Sights and humilia-
tions heaped upon me during that week
of looking up whenever a prospective
landlady discovered that three children
filled out the list of encumbrances in the
Jenkins household besides my wife.
A wife was bad enough in the estimation
of most of them. What city board
ing-hOuse keeper wants is bachelor
who needs a whole floor and will pay
for it'the price of the rooms and board
for six people and is never Eome to
lunch and goes away every Sunday, and
then she will stop up two burners Of
the three-armed chandelier in his room.
But this is a disgression. There were
only three children in the fall, and there
were four in the spring, and was glad
the lOOking-up process was to be con-
Quoted in the suburbs. / took list Of
all the eligible (O places within radius
of twenty miles from town and began.
tried the farmhouse racket first
Those ads read WE'LL wide, cool
porches, plenty of shade, fresh eggs,
chickens, cream, ETC. Such places, l
thought, will please other than the
children among the Jinkinses. But l
never could find them-the place, l
mean. They must have moved the 1st
of May. did find one that bore out to
limited extent the rosy visions engen-
dered by the newspaper notice, but tn e
farmer had very cross dog, great
big ugly-looking bull and mastitf mon
grel, and when / told him / was afraid
of that dog with the children he smiled
rather peculiarly / thought, and after
ward said he couldn't chain him up be-
cause he had never found chain strong
enough to hold him. So decided not
to go there.
"Then 1 skipped farm-houses and
tackled Villas and found them rs
weak lot as the gingerbread gable rail
ings which decorated them. Every
thing was weak about them but the
prices, and those were firm enough.
Some were 'genteel, in addition to their
weakness, and when l struck one of
those, quoted from the litany, "Good
Lord deliver us!' and crossed the street.
81 spent fortnight going about, of
and on, and got pretty tired of it; but at
last came across a very pleasant look
ing place in a pretty village, only eleven
miles out of the city. The yard was
the attractive part-a real country yard,
with old shade trees and clean grass,