Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-23

In the first place be reasonable. Next to ex
pecting city Injuries and conveniences in the
so1ntry If. e npns u:
drawbacks. Most Of the essentials one has
right to claim have been already enumerated
and these may be more or less according to The
sgreement between the contracting parties
put II 10 just possible that some of my readers
having agreed to pay q certain sum weekly for
tnear accommodations they have acquired poe
session OF the farm, the farmer, the farmers
wife and children, bis man servant and bis maid
servant, his OK and his ass and in short every
thing pertaining to him
peopie OF this sort descend upon the farm
With lordly air, treat their host and his
family with patronizing condescension on
ignore them altogether, produce hammccks,
lawn tennis outfits and all manner Of outdoor
games and proceed to take possession Of lawn,
orchard, Held, garden, porch. stable, the
slightest reference to the farmers own
convenience or wishes. THEY order ice. milk
or lunches at all hours Of the day or night,
md fault, eriticiss and ridicule without any
attempt at conceaiment. As for the chill
dren-what don't the children do? They
laws, including the laws Of meum and teum,
are apparently annulled. Anarchy is permitted
TO reign. The garden beds are trampled, the
flower beds ravaged, the unripe fruit snatched
from the trees. setting hens driven from their
nests, peaceful cattle tormented and the mem
bers OF the farmers family harassed with re-
quests and driven wild with questions. Mean
time mamma probably looks on smilingly and
thinks how nice it 10 for the little desrs 10 be
In the country.
TIE RoMP1No CHILDREN.
This Is no eAggeration-ths writer has seen
all this and much more. Yet Q good deal Of IL
u the result rather of thoughtlsssnsss and mis-
conception than of real coarseness and want Of
feeling The writer remembers wildly the
nrst summer spent on farm with her own
small brood. They had looked forward to life
on farm with intense eagerness, their ideas
OF what it would be like drawn principally
nrst two or three days they were simply I'M
governable in their delight and enthusiasm.
Then, one after the other, they came with
dolefui tales of disappointment and disillusion.
~ was not at al like it was in the st Mich
would not let them play in the hay-the cattle
would not eat 1t II they did-nor hunt eggs for
rear OF frightening the hens off their nests, nor
chase the gobbler because he was cross, nor 60
down into the moving because the tall grass
would be trampled or they might get their legs
cut on In the moving machine, nor ride on the
load Of hay because once boy fell of and
broke his leg, and SO on and on, whole pitiful
jeremiad. Poor little things It is sad to see
our fondest hopes decay, but was not the
farmer in the right?
My dear little woman, mother Of young chill.
dren, half-grown boys and girls pr boys and
girls grown to full height, but stin to reach
the age of discretion, stop in your mad career
ana remember that your country host Is not
entertaining you altogether for the pleasure of
your society and has some rights that even Q
summer boarder is bound to respect.
These garden beds represent many hours Of
DacK-DreAklng labor, The green aDplea and
other fruit you thoughtlessly strip from the
boughs to hurl at each other or at . chipmunk
In the stone wall have been watched over per-
haps since the blossoms dropped and represent
many dollar in the farmers never overflow
ing pocket.
Everything, indeed, on and about the place
Is the product OF hard work and self denial.
Respect 1t, then, as you would the property Of
Remember above all that nowhere In the
wide world are lofty airs and displays Of caste
feeling SO entirely out of place as on an Amer
lean farm, for from the American farming
class have come most Of the grandest men and
women this or any other country has pro-
duced.