New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-07
rHE spRLNG SEARcK

Naturalists tell us OF experiments with biKd5
Of passage which 60 to prove that the migratory
instinct Is irresistible of certain seasons; Of how
these birds, both old and young, confined In cages
remote from their companions, beat their wings
against the bars in piteous endeavor to escape
when the season at which their kind are won't
10 Journey away TO the south or north arrives.
whether or not similar instinct prompts the
New-YorlSer TO fly, or attempt to fly, to the
suburbs at about the time Of each recurring
vernal equinox naturalists have not determined,
but certain IL s that at this season the Gothamite
not happily possessed Of o brownstone mont
resolves hereafter to live in one Of these suburban
villages, of which we read and are told, where
prices are reasonable, trains frequent malaria
no nearer than the next town, and mosquitoes
al confined to a certain undesirable neighborhood
further down tho street, where there are houses
for sale by an unprncipled rival real estate dealer
The kind OF New-Yorl1er we have indicated now
decides TO dwell no longer in the city. He makes
long computations On the backs Of envelopes,
and demonstrates that he has already paid for
three or four houses with rent money; and his
wife, with that cheerful feminine desire to please,
cells HIM that she has known 1t all the time.
Visions of rural pleasures begin 70 haunt his
fancies; he dreams OF house that nc con Walk
around, of grass, perhaps of tree, perchance
even of two trees and small bushi and in his
widest dream no sees COW. This, as 1T were,
Is the last straw. BE gives himself into the
willing hands Of the suburban property real
estate dealer.
Then he patronizes the frequent and
rapid trains &c their remarkably low
rates, and goes out searching for his
future home; and there ever dances before
bis vision, but ever stays beyond his reach, that
Elusive, ignis fntuus cow He takes conhdingly
from the eloquent real estate dealer, who, born to
grace the Senate, hides himself among maps and
platS, directions for reaching suburban house
having oil the modern conyeniences, Perhaps he
finds that 10 Is so; perhaps, also, upon examina-
ton he discovers That gas and water have not
yet been introduced into the neighborbood. that
there Is q marked absence OF sewer, that side
walk Is vet 20 be; and, in short that the modern
eonvenienees consist OF an oil lamp reared aloft
on a pole at n neghboring corner, which lamp Is
lighted on moonless nights by the happy bucolic
rVsidentS who take turns at climbing the pole
for the purpose Tho soul OF the searcher after q
hnbtotion not infrequently is stirred by other
emotions and one as often felt. perhaps, as an
other is that Of wonder OF the seven-league boots
which tho real estate dealer rnust don when nc
wuIks the Distance from the station, with its
numerous and hurrying trains, to the house, with
is modern improvements IN ten minutes. lie sits
down on O stone 10 rest, halfway between these
points, and, gazing far OF across the Landscape
first at one and then st the other, he thinks how
strange IL Is that that agents name never figures
In the great walking matches.
Perhaps the man finds house which becomes his
home; more frequently he does not Gradually
that lovely vision OF the COW begins to dim, ana
some night he dreams that she losses him over
the fence on her horns This puts al his dreams
20 rout He rents another fiat or suite OF rooms
more inconvenient of course than the one he
Ind: he forgets the graas, and the horned bovine
only remains as a dingreesble remembrance; he
is content till another spring But in this springs
search which Is now beginning The Tribune hopes
that great many may find their visions realized
In comfortable and healthful suburban homes.