The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-27

HIS OLD TIME CLOTHES.
but I do not pine for the return of those
days. | can recall the days when our
family clothed itself from the wool OF our
own slender flock, and when my mother
cut ont my clothes by means Of q pruning
knife. People who criticise my appear
ance now should have cast their eye over
me then.
But look now at the swift and beauti-
ful schedules Of our vast railway sys-
TENS, gridironing as ! may say the
great and prosperous land. Everywhere,
too. new pleasure and health resorts are
springing up. From Bar Harbor to st.
Augustine, the entire Atlantic coast is
fringed with beautiful seaside cottages
and taverns for the rich, the middle
sized rich, and even those who can A.
ford only day or two by the side Of tho
odd smelling sea.
Istarted few weeks ago from my
North Carolina retreat, and in twenty
four enjoyable hours was in New York
without change. It was not the first
time had found myself in New York
without change, and by a recent arrange
ment the Pennsylvania railroad--which,
by the way, l have always regarded as
one Of our most talented and gifted
roads-has established q sleeping car
service. by means Of which, without
change, the New Yorker may, inside Of
twenty-four hours, find himself in the
high and healthful hills Of western North
Carolina with an appetite certainly out
Of proportion to his income.
Reversing this order | came up on .
train, arriving at Jersey City at 4:30. !
then walked on board Fall River boat
at $50, on whose decks as I arrived .
delightful band was playing "See the
ConQuering Hero Comes" Hastily do6-
ing my dapper little speckled straw hat
| placed in charge of the steward, Mr..
David Washington, large watermelon,
which l had hurriedly bought and con-
cealed in shawl strap, and going for
ward was soon seen chatting gayly with
. bunco man, who said that he had often
been delighted by my rare genius and
such things as that. He was man, too,
whom / do not rem ember ever to have
saw before nor since.
How many new acquaintance one
may pick up about New York If he
shows . pleased and joyous nature. New
York is about eight sizes too large for
me sometimes think. Cohasset is more
my size. Large towns make me shy
and snort like grass fed elderly farm
horse at the Fall Of Babylon fireworks.
Inferior people notice me with scorn In
New York and comment on my sylvan
methods, but up here associating with
Mr.. Cleveland and Herr Joseph Jeffer-
son and Mr.. Booth and Mr.. Glider and
Mr. Robson, all Of whom are sturdy
woodsmen, raising their own vegetables
at enormous expense. ! feel less skit-
fish.
Mr.. jefferson said: "Come up. Here
You are safe. There is not bunco man
on Buzzard's Bay" So we took passage
on the Why7 new steam yacht
which Mr.. Robson is having repaired
most of the time, he says, for the rare
exhilaration afforded by knowing that
be has nice yacht at the paint shop or
the plumbers ''just getting the finishing
touches put on it.
He claims that yacht most always
needs something done to it tomorrow,
and then it takes day or two for the
paint to dry, and then you suddenly look
at your watch and find that the summer
IL gone and work begun. Is it not %
generally in this life? Oh. how often ]
sometimes think that terrapin and 10
hannisberger 60 with insomnia, while
health and hunger often go with low
spirited bread and prune sauce.
Oh, taxa me back, ! often cry at night,
a the soft winds moan through the cost
" laces of my easement; take me back
and lay me once more across my moth
er's knee as Of yore. only taking cara t0
have me placed the other side mp.
Charles jefferson was the pioneer Of
Bnzzard's Bay. He bought at thirty.
two dollars per acre what is now selling
By the front foot along the beautiful
waters Of Buttssmilk bay, ! think 1t is,
an arm Of Buzzard's bay. and now one
may see at eventide the hale ska sleek
Charles gloating over his Ill gotten ssias.
while near by is the hospitable roof Of
his fathers CHEEKY house on one side and
the pretty cottages OF Tom and Mr.. JET
Persons sister COMFY on the other.
I was surprised to find Mr.. Booths
health SO good and his endurance X