Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-19

Some Things That People Gencral1y
should Take Into Account.

Some Things That People GeneraII,
should Take Into Account.
There is no one who dwells habitually
in the country who will not recognize
the value of a code of rules for the guild
ance of city people who make an annual
pilgrimage to rural scenes and who are
ostensiby out of place therein. As a
general proposition these people expect
that cheap display in the country will
give them a social distinction which their
characters or their income can not secure
in the city. To such persons the follow.
ing simple precepts will be of benefit:
Don't wear blazers to afternoon teas or
to dinners. A fat lady in blazer is a
distinct incongruity. Blazers should indi-
cate love of violent exercise.
Don't wear yachting caps in the mount
aims. No one will thereby mistake you
for yacht owner astray.
Don't wear yachting caps at all unless
you yacht. A yachting cap and a white
face excite ridicule and suggest pretense.
Don't pay so much rent that you can't
have a few dollars for an occasional out
ing. Go into the country for health and
recreation, not for display.
Don't be deceived into believing that
day S fishing means a day devoted to al
cohol
Don't spend the day in the cabin if you
go yachting. The pure air and bright
sunshine are more wholesome than beer
and whisky-yea even than champagne.
Don't take buggy ride on Sunday
when you can walk in the woods. The
further your legs carry you on Sunday
the better your brain will work on Mon.
day.
Don't make the mistake of thinking
more of the petty doings of your neigh
bors than of the more digniiicd habits Of
the plants and animals with which you
are fortunately brought into contact.
Don't take your meals on piazza I'M
less the piazza is shady and remote from
prying observation of the highway or tho
next villa. The custom of eating in
public, although established by Louis
XIV, is considered vulgar in the well
brought up rural communities.
Unless you spend your summer in n
village and adopt village customs, don't
wear silk dress or black frockcoat to
church. 1t is not the best custom in the
country to show off the splendor of dress.
The best rural families never dress up for
church, except when they visit the city.
At home they worship in humble garb.
Don't insist on elbowing your way into
country society. Country society is self
sufficient, likes permanent and worthy
friends rather than momentary acquaint-
ances, and therein is not or ought not to
be peculiar.
Don't pretend to know about country
sports of which you are utterly ignorant.
You are very likely to be exposed and
Inundated, and you certainly preclude
yourself from acquiring information
which would be a pleasure and perhaps
an advantage to you.
Don't growl at your landlord, or the
drought, or the wet weather, or any of
the drawbacks of life in the country.
Don't complain of your meals at the
boarding house or of the quality of the
butchers meat. The pestiferous cockney
who declines to see the beauties of nature
or to be grateful for the blessings of fresh
air because a train is late or because he
has to walk home through the dust pro.
claims himself an appropriate tenant for
sitting flat on a back street, although
he is doubtless trying to make the rural
people believe that palace on Fifth
avenue is his customary abode.
Perhaps, after all, these rules may be
fittingly summed upin one great compre
hensive law-Don't be vulgar, pre-
tentious, intrusive, inappropriate chump.
New York World