Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-02-26
ONLY BACHELORS WANTED
4 Married Mans VAN Search for a
Cnildren's Paradise.

and cEcam and gree. ssC.,$S for the
children to run upon and-and-all that
| Drt of thing, at a price that would come
within reach of moderate income not
TOO far from The city??''
elbow far did you say tie income was
rom the city?' inquired the writer,
somewhat confused.
II want to live in the country COZ
| tinuel the first speaker, ''where my ckii
| dren can GET fresh air from the hills,
where they can climb rocks and fences
md trees and tear their clothes and 20
to bed at night robustly tired, and get
up in the morning robustly refreshed.
where they can gather the Bowers thai
5loo1n in the spring. and"
Bother the flowers that bloom in tba
spring! Do you happen to know what
month it is?''
january, the latter part OF January,
and the man who expects to iuxurla-s
IN quiet, comfortable, coy little placs
in the country during the coming summer
has got to begin to look about him or the
pastoral paradises will all be goioIed
up
! 'Let me talk to you minute said
the writer ''Last year we-n1y wife,
and Thought we would 60 into tire
country for the summer. My wife, INV
foolish, ignorant wife, said it Would bs.
80 nice for the children, and as there
We're four of them and only one of my
self the majority ruled, and we decided
to go. And was to look up place. I
had looked up place in the city in the
tall, and my blood still boiled at the
recollection Ct the sights and hun,liia-
lions hsapea Upon me during that week
! Of looking up whenever a prospective:
landlady discovered that three children
filed out the list of encumbrances in the
Jenkins household besides my wife.
4 wife was bad enough in the estimation
of most of them. What q 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 Eo.le ~
lunch and goes away every Sunday, and
then she will stop up two bsGncrs OF
the three-armed chandelier in his room
But this is dispersion. 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 a list OF
. all the eligible (?) places within radius
, Of twenty miles from town and began.
l [ tried the farmhouse racket first.
1 Those ads read we'll; Wide, cool
porches, plenty of shade, fresh eggs.
:, chickens, cream, ETC. Such places, |
thought, will please other than the
= children among the Jinkinses. But (
/ never could find them-the place, I
4 mean. They must have moved the LIST
r Of May, | did find one that bore out to
d limited extent the rosy visions engen-
!, dered by the newspaper notice, but til G
n farmer had very cross dog q great
o big ugly-lool1ing bull and mastif mon
grel, and when told him was afraid
j. of that dog with the children he smiled
d rather peculiarly thought, and after
" ward said he couldn' chain him I'D be-
: cause he had never found chain strong
+ enough to hold him. So decided not
= to go there.
j. "Then / skipped farm-houses and
Il tackled villas, and found ther, as
:: weak lot as the gingerbread gable rail
g mgs which decorated them. Every
s thing was weak about them bur IT,.
prices, and those were firm enough !,
e Some were 'genteel, in addition 10 81 81,
J. weakness, and when l struck o. % ~
4 those, quoted from the ]itany, '..f;x,d
Il Lord deliver us!' and crossed u e street
i Il spent fortnight going about Of
+ and on, and got pretty tired 'of it: but al
Il last l came across very Pleasant look
Q ing place in pretty viilatre, only clrua,
miles out of the city The ward was
the attractive past-a real country ward
:; with Ola shade trees and clean grass
u and the scent of the apple blossoms
:, coming in on every breeze from tho
r orchard beyond. And liked the place
although the rooms were low and SQUAT.
' ", and the mistress of the mansc inst
the opposite, tall and scracgy. and J
overlooked much for that ward for {ha
children. But when | mentioned thnu
y my prospective landady stifrened md
:. asked in Polar sea tone:
Y "'How many?'
8 Four | replied, so promptly that
she jumped back little, and then she
began to remark:
"'Shc had occasionally taken one. but
lour she couldn't think of, particularly
with two of 'em boys; they would tranT
mud, and
".Yes, | shouted, intcrruptinc :,
ana trample the grass and chase - T.
enlchens ana try to milk the COW 80,
probably get kicked for their pains ea.'
whistle and shout and litter the 'aa'
WIN angleworms, for bait and eat 49,
and butter three times a dav oHfas
nothing of between meals, and ~ ~
precisely what / want them to t'ae
what pay tor. Do you suppo 40 al
am, went on, dropping my v - ''s S''
qenly, 'ao you suppose that my s;fe e ~
/ would endure life for on "he al
these understood, stuffy ana, week
yours or sleep the second nmen n
these Jumping husk n1attre n'ent
beds it it We're not for thu sses as yo
same four children whose sake OF
deplore? Do you imagin existence J
society and the privile' ; II IS TOT 20
mosquitoes and taking e OF hShe'
cup of water and usi oatns ia "a a y: -
towels and eating chuc ~ n - ~
steak that we come * neeA asla fu =.
this for summer?' Sut 10 d 'isace
"She said She wa Idsne say?''
couldn't take the ,vcry sorry, ,ut
sure and fasten th chlie'ren, ane to
! "Well.' said f gate US we mt o
turned to 90. ..if ae gentlema 4, as
a quiet, comfort yen happev. to hes
the country ,2hte, coy Wctle plac
know" -New Isch as l. want let
- Fork Times.
| Fine-LOOk F--~--
Il think ing Young Gentlemen
for gentler he new style of high
| said a bloc nen is very pretty, au
town. n,rg, young lady from OF
+ "What .-F
aunt !: is t5he new style?" asked
'.It's ;'- =