Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
SUNDAY, AUGUST "a. Is
IL hoary with the wicked wisdom Of long
and inquisitive life.

II noary with the wicked WISDOM OF long
and inquisitive life.
So
Has Its Compensatisns.
There Is no malaria in any sub-tropical
region that I ever heard of, but IL 1t did
exist it would be terribly effective. With
no winters to kill the poison, the venom
would 60 on accumulating and concentrat-
ing its strength at dreadful rate. The
result would be that the visitor would he
panied by the spectacle of many people with
the chills. But there are feas and sand
flies, and no aguecould keep person more
actively employed in shaking than do these
agents in other forms OF movement. In
short, those who seek for Lum mer, even
though they seek it In the dead Of winter,
will find the discomforts Of summer, as we'll
as its delights.
But a ter next winter will come next sum-
mer. Then the facts and experiences OF this
summer will still have value of their own
If they can be remembered. One lit
tie group of summer refugees will not forget,
whatever others may do. With the first
hot wave of this summer an inspiration
came to these people. They would have
summers outing in the country, and would
still be at home. They would live the fam
lily life, but would live it under the shadow
of country trees. amid the breezy space OF
wide country fields. They would not take
boarding in the country. They had tried
that. and did not altogether like it. They
would not spend the season at a summer re-
sort. They had tried that, and did not al
together like it. In the first place they
could not well afford these forms of summer
ing. and, in the second place, they wanted
the com tort and freedom of home for man,
nd n
plan, and this was it.
A Summer In the Country.
There were four families IN the scheme
four young husbands, four young wives,
and each couple blessed with one especially
winsome and interesting child. So there
were IL people to provide for; adults
and 4 children. All the families were init.
matelY associated. The grown people were
friends and the children were plsymates.
They would take country house together
for the summer. The husbands found
place and the wives commended it It was
plain and roomy frame house. near rail-
road station, and not too far from the city.
The rent would not be heavy burden for
four moderate salaries to sustain. And the
cost OF food and iuel would really be less
than in the city houses, where four small
families must be provided for instead of one
large one.
There would be saving, also, in the mat
ter of help. At home tour servants would
draw wages in four households. Under this
summer consolidation q housekeeper, with
one strong girl to assist her, would give the
ladies their summer rest, and there would
only be two servants to pay instead of four.
So these happy discoverers of the art of
summer pleasure moved some of their fur
niture into the house, engaged their "help,"
laid in their provisions and began to live
the lite of summer content.
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Eating Their Quart of Salt.
Now, there is an old saying that you do
not properly know man until you have
eaten a quart of salt with him. It takes
some little time to eat a quart of salt, and it
takes some little time to become acquainted
with the ins and outs of a mans character.
The same great truth applies with equal
force to women, and perhaps with more than
equal force to children-especially to other
peoples children, and still more especially
if you have children of your own.
These our children had played together
most delightfully."- on the city sidewalks, or
when they visited each others nurseries in
the city homes. But those were other times
than these. Now they were members OF
one household, constantly together. On
rainy days.four we're shut up in the house
instead of one, as heretofore. It made a
difference.
And when the little Smith boy tumbled
the little Jones girl in the mud one day;
and when the little Jones girl pulled the
little Brown girls hair; and when the little
Brown girl broke the legs of every quadru-
ped in the little Robinson boys Noah ark;
and when the little Robinson boy made the
little Smith boys nose bleed with base
ball bat, the mothers of those infants held
a symposium. The fathers also were led to
compare views; and lie altogether took on
less rosy tint.
Anew Other Troubles.
Then, too, three of the ladies were COM
PEELED to wonder why Mrs. Browns parrot
had never before seemed such an exasperat-
ing nuisance to them as 1t had now become.
Mrs. Robinson's yelping terrier found three
hostile critics in three former friends. Mrs.
Smith played beautifully; but it was now
discovered that she kept in practice by run
ming the scales when other people wanted
to take maps. Mrs. Jones gave lasting Of
tense by ordering a dinner of corned beef
and cabbage, with side dish of onions.
None of the others could eat morsel of the
dinner, and the smell of it did not get out of
the house TOR two days.
The men rendered themselves as OBJ
noxious as the women and the children.
But why continue? The summer is still
here, but this promising summer plan is
already thing OF the past. And strained
relations now exist where before there was
only cordial friendship. The incident may
possibly prevent some unhappiness next
summer. JAMES O. PuRDv