The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-03

MAKING SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN HIS ES-
CAPE.
/ did not succeed in drawing out Mr..
Cleveland regarding his candidacy. but
he said naively, as he turned aside to
spit on his bait, that his health was tip
top.
"That, said he, as he unfastened his
hook from the wainscoting Of my trous-
ers, lis one thing which l like about me.
While not in any sense candidate, you
may say In = general way that my health
is right good"
"What | admire about Mr.. Cleve-
land" said Mr.. jefferson the following
day, sis, that he is just man. Even
his enemies must admit that. When
we 60 out fishing and return at
night, Mr.. Cleveland will not accept
moro than his just share Of the catch.
l do not say that Mr.. Blaine would ex-
pect to catch clubs and pumpkin
seeds all day ard then expect to Offset
them against brook trout, but at the
same time think that he might con-
slider that his conversational powers
would offset his suckers, while Mr..
Cleveland does not try to SO work his
diplomatic gifts as to keep him in grub.
He is man who wants to give subsian-
tial justice to everybody, and Of course
this does not suit those who never
tried il.
"Mr. Cleveland and his wife make
good neighbors here, and he has never
borrowed anything yet that he has not
returned. help him in haying and he
helps me in harvest. We exchange
works. | let him lave my 'autobi-
ography' to read and be loans me some
Of his most spicy old messages to con-
gress."
Property has greatly appreciated in
this country since the arrival Of the
Clevelands, Jeffersons and elders.
From $3e per acre paid by Mr.. Charles
Jefferson, the price has gone up to $3.50
and $500 and even to price per front
foot. But fortunately the speculatoz
will not get a chance at it, for the colony
holds enought of it to keep the semibar.
barism OF boom out of it. What car
be sadder than the stealthy football of a
g boom in the soothing silence Of the
primeval forest? What can be more sac
religious than the fizzle of soda foun.
tain or a fictitious value where nature
has held the age on the false and the
artificial for centuries?
The tendency for the past few years
among those who have leisure and ever
moderate means is to foster the growth
OF cottage life. and to the detriment Of
the great, overgrown summer hotel, with
its waste Of piazzas and raw material
its tiddledewinks greatness, its Jane.
Crow aristocracy, its noise and newness
salt air and starvation, its fussy invalids
and footpad walters.
Why not have even fifty dollar log
cabin in the hills or a wall tent by the
waiting sea in preference to all this:
have q wall tent this summer which
is much larger than any room ever
had at seaside hotel, and have pros
pect on the outside that money could moi
buy. We have also in the North Caro-
lima mountains style Of refrigerator fol
meats that would surprise and amuse
the uninitiated. It consists of rectan
gular cage. covered with mosquito wire
and attached to rope. We put a pulley
mp in a high pine tree and run the rope
over it. Then we attach the refrigerator
put in our meats and pull the whole
thing up in the tree. It keeps sweet and
improves for q week or ten days. The
reader will be tempted to disbelieve THU
unless he has lived in mountain coun
try and tried it.
Looking over the United States, it il
wonderful how health and pleasure re
sorts have built up within few years
From the east to the west, from the nortl
to the south the coast and the hills ART
freckled with cottages and inns for thoss
who have learned that q change OF air i,
better than the entire pharmacopnia.
Nantasket beach, the Coney island Of
Boston, is q beautiful stretch of shore
giving upon Boston harbor. | saw ,
wagon load Of young men on the Jeru
salem road who had been up to Nan
tasket and improved their health SO mucl
that they spoke about it in high term.
to every one they met, even stopping 1
good many carriages to tell joyfully and