The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-07
LOVE OF THE COUNTRY.
Miss Cleveland Tells How Genuine En
thusiasm Is Created.

thusiasm Is Created.
The real way to become true lover
tif il is in you is TO get married. The
real way TO love nature is to wed bit
OF country, to take IL for better or FOR
worse for your very own, to settle down
to il and live in il, until you know it's
every possible mood and influence in all
winds and weathcrs; to invest your
pride and reputation in it, to give your
sell up TO IL all summer, part of some
winters, and begin to stop roaming
With nature there is no fear that famil-
iarity will breed contempt. She is the
only genuine hero to her valet
IL matters less than one believes, at
the start where this particular spot
of green earth is. Nature has always
something fetching and liking about her,
One part of her can always boast some
superiority over another part One must
do as wise man does with his wife or
his horse, brag of undeniable and APP
parent points; otherwise, silence, The
possossive pronOun will do the rest.
Ill-iavorcd but mine own" The
mine own is the magic which trans
forms every Audrey.
II you wish to possess the real article
in place of bogus bucolics, cease TO be
summer roamer Cease eagerly to
take, at bankrupting prices, board and
lodging at some crowded resort or
fashionable fad of place which Mt
your town home you would scarcely oiier
to your servants. Cease to rent house
here, there, everywhere if never twice
in the same place. Nature will bear
with you long, but in the end will de-
spise you and punish you for your dis
regard of her liberal offers of hospitality.
Somewhere is the very best spot for
Go anyhow, if you cannot buy, rent. If
you cannot rent board but find good
II you cannot ret, board but find good
place, and 20 there for, at least, n part
of each year, until you have come to
have delicious sort of understanding
with the goddess who haunts those hills
and streams and groves. l Will answer
for the rest The next thing will be II
| trysting place, and the next marriage
altar. You will gradually make sur
prising discovery of how the sums paid
to your hotel clerk OF your landlady for
seat at table and room to sleep in
would pay rent and housekeeping in a
cottage round the corner which Is with
out tenant; or, more astounding still,
would pay the instalnent due for the
first year on the purchase-price of a
house up the road which you know is
for sale. This idea, once well lodged in
your brain, will work wonders. You
will walk for exercise round that cor
You will look long and tixedly at the
cottage to let. There will be speculn-
| tion always in your orbs. You will see
| how very little expenditure under
proper direction, would make differ
ent place of it. This train OF thought
will go on until sudden realization OF
how impossible would be these improve
ments unless one were owner and pro-
prietor, builds q swift dam to your flood
of altcra tions to the little cottage; in
alarm you hasten to ascertain the cot
| tage may be bought at bargain. Willis
still intoxicated with the dazzling pos
sibilities looming up, sober second
thought suggests that you should look
around little and not be hasty. While
thinking this matter over, you will alb
stractedly walk up the road and soon
| find yourself contemplating the house
which iE for sale. AS there is no harm
in the world in merely looking at thing,
| you will examine this new property with
| interest and though the price asked is
considerably above that fixed for the
cottage, you will see, at glance, that
if one wanted to buy a nice country
place, this would be much cheaper
| property than the other by reason of its
superiority in every respect.
With no sense of having at all COM
mitted yourself, you will extract from
the proprietor of this place n promise of
its refusal should another man call to
sec it before you return. You will now
| thoughtfully take your way back TO the
squalid apartments which you have pre-
| viously enjoyed. At meals, on the poor
| little lin comparison y piazzas, on your
| pillow in your oppressive sleeping room,
| slccplcss because of delightful ina gina
tions, you will see about repairs and inn
| provemcnts in the last-seen house, and
IN endless vista of rapturOus plans will
set in for its transformation into your
| country place