The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-14
tract ia the first part the best of the

eSoSA Ao4 uO lOuScI llSutlys Ouo "a oSP
her with grip of proprietorship,
whether over a hit of her broken up
into country door yard outside a
frame house and inside picket fence,
or N graDder gulsa of swelling slopes
OF expensive lawn, enclosed by the lat
est sly of careful carefulness in
hedge OF chosen weeds or parapet OF
rough hewn stone; whether the house
be owned or rented, there will be oppor.
tunity for the real test. 1t is all the
difference he ween courtship and mar
rage. Ones admiration becom IS less
extravsg mt and more reasonable; ones
m inner less impes 5loned and more
atfectionate.
ONE MUST LIVE IN COUNTRY he LOVES
to love it long and well. There must be
the lnexorable reciprocity that all love
demands; equal parts Of nature and OF
man. He must feel dependent on her !;
there m st come into his true love, as
10 all love at It's last and best, touch
Of tue relation of mother aud of child.
rhs re-" OF elms under WHICH. as be-
meath a cathedral dome, he has paced
In many times of human desolation,
through whose columns he has wor-
shipped toward the east at many a
mystic moonrise. under whose arches
he has questioned solemn stars at mid
night, whose maternal arms have
reached teld,rly earthward for him.
and stretched for him also their sup
plicating meditation heavenward-
these elms are like no O her elms. even
as his mothers face cannot be matched
for him In all the multitude of mothers
faces On the earth. There is no real love
of the country which has not its Gull
mlnatlon and climax in the possessive
pronoun The re- al lover loves his own
country best. If he has no own COUP
try (when he might have), he cannot
be said to dave real love, but only to
be possessed of the indiscYiminate gal
iantry of the man of the world who
has no hom>., and who waits the pre-
destined dart OF Cupid to fix his fancy.
The real way to become true lover
III it is in yOu) is to get married. The
real way to love nature is to wed a bit
OF country, to take it for better or for
worse for your very own. to settle down
TO Ii and live in it, until you know its
every possible mood and influence in all
winds and weathers; to Invest your
pride and reputation in it, to give your
self up to it all summer, part of some
winters. and begin to stop roaming
With nature
THERE is NO FEAR THAT FAMILIARITY WILL
'-'--- BREED CONTEMPT.
She is the only genuine hero to her
valet.
1t matters less than one believes, at
the start, where this particular spot of
green earth is. Nature has always
fetching and fixing about
her. Oae part of the country can al
ways boast some superiority over an
other part. One must do as wise man
1oes with his wife or his horse. brag of
and apparent poiats; other
wise, silence. The possesSlve pronoun
will do the rest. Il l-favored, but mine |
)wn!' The "mine own" is the Inaglc
which transforms every Audrey.
If you wish to possess the real article
n p ace of bogus bucollcs, cease to be a
Cease eagerly TO take,
1t baakruptng prices, board and Iodg- |
enable fad of place which at YOUR
own homo you would scarcely offer o |
your servants. Cease to rent a house |
lere, there, every where, if never twice |
n the same place Nature will bear
With you long, but in the end will de-
pise you and punish you for your dis
egard of her liberal offers of hospi- |
atty. Somewhere is the very spot for
lou to be happy with her. Find it.!
If you caunot buy. rent. If you can
lot rent, board; but find a good place,
md go there for, at least, part of each |
,ear. until you have come to have
delicious sort of understanding with |
he god less who haunts those hills an d |
treams and groves. | will answer for
he rest. The nsxt thing will be a
rysting place, and the next e marriage
Iltar. You will gradually make sur
,rising discovery of how the sums paid
o your hotel clerk or your landlady
or a seat at table and room 10 sleep
n would pay rent and housekeeping in
cottage round the corner which Is
Without tenant; or, more astounding
till, would pay the instalment due for
he first year on
THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR HOUSE
p the road which you know is for sale
his idea, once we'll lodged in your
rain, will work wonders. You will
yalk for exercise round that corner
You will look long and
xedIy at the cottage to let. There will
. speculation always in your orbs.
you will see how very little expendi-
ure, under proper direction. would
make different place of it. This train
f thought will go on until sudden
ealiz alton of how impossible would be
hese Improvements unless one were
wner and proprietor. builds a swift
am to your food of alterations to the
tile cottage; in alarm you hasten to
scertain the cottage may be bought at
bargain. While still intoxicated with
be dazzling possibilities looming up, a
ober second thought suggests that you
hould look around little and not be
asty. While thinking this matter
YER, you will abstractedly walk up the
pad, and soon find yourself contem-
lating the house which is for sale. AS
here is no harm in the world in merely {
boxing at a thing, you will examine
MS new property with interest, and al :,
1ough the price asked is considerably
bove that fixed for the cottage, you
ill see, at glance, that if one wanted