The sun., 1891-06-28

guage. Whether, centuries hence, We may
| not have language OF our own. Is, we see, {
| difrereSt question. When we have, we may
| be certain that the literature will follow.
| Summer Boardcrs and Their Keepers.
Our esteemed religious contemporary. the
| Obngre0aiionalist. surveys from an ethical
point OF view great moral, social. domestic.
economic question OF immediate aud living
interest:
TO keep summer boa.ders one ought to have Esod
health good temper and unfaiins patience"
The editor OF the Cbngre0ationaiist will
have no difficulty in finding q summer board
ing house that will suit him. He must be a
boarder such as any boarding-house keeper
would welcome with joy. When he Is look
ing for q room with board he doesn't ask
that the room be cool. clean, comfortably
furnished. open to the breezes. sheltered
from the sun. OF the mosquito route, with
no flies on it. This ethereal Boston soul.
replete with the east wind and full
OF the sincere milk of Cyultyure, scars
above the earth-born joys Of food and drink.
He insists merely that his boarding house
keeper shall be healthy, good-tempered, and
patient. For him no grumbling because
there Is no fruit for breakfast, because the
fresh vegetables smack OF the can most
heinously. because the cream is milk whose
origin must be sought in the well and not
the COW. and whose color is bluer than the
thin but sacred fluid that aZures the veins
OF the SALToNsTALLs and the WINTHRoPs.
The coffee may be muddier than the unre-
claimed Back Bay lands, the bread as soggy
and heavy as q Monday lecture OF JoR
COOKS. the tea OF as bad taste as an IBsEN
delnoral drama, the butter stronger than
SULLIVAN Strongarm, the fish OF more
than middle age. the beef. like King Dun
CAN, foully done to death, tho mutton
wether-beateu and invulnerable by the
carver's blade. the chicken q pseudonym for
veal. the steaks as unacceptable as Bos-
ton statue and tougher than the South
Cove. the eggs OF advanced views,
the ice cream hot. the soup cold as q Boston
handshake; but this easy boarder will not
care pin. He will 60 out Of doors and wash
at the pump contentedly every morning.
What does he want Of q bathroom 80 long
as his clearinghouse keeper is healthy II
necessary. he will dry himself in the sun. 1t
might put the proprietor out OF temper to
ask for towels. After all. towels are lux
ury, for which 1t Is easy to find substitute.
1t is better to dry yourself with fine tooth
comb than to run the risk OF narrowing the
patience Of your landlord or your landlady.
This Obn0reoatioHalist summer boarder
takes no thought OF what he shall eat when
he sits down to breakfast. He doesn't ask
the keeper, What have you for breakfast
this morning?" but says to him, with q
cordial smile. II trust you are well this
II the toast is burned to a cinder
and the fried potatoes drunk with grease,
never a word OF complaint leaps through the
hedge OF those modellips. The Model Summer
Boarder scans anxiously the face OF the
master or mistress OF the feast, and says to
Is not feeling well to-day" or. II hope Mr..
neuralgia is better this morning."
The hired girl pours clam chowder over his
white waistcoat. and paints his back with
butter gives him a napkin that has not
known for weeks the refining influences
Of the laundry. slams the platter OF corn
beef hash upon the table with ghoulish g,ee,
and gives him answers shorter than his re-
lions. Does he complain? Does he flame
INTO wrath and threaten to pack his trunk |
Not he. Calm as one Of the late Mr.. A. |
Wards wax iiggers. mild as the summer
,reezc, or birch.bark beer. he moralizes upon |
the difficulties Of getting good domestie |
service. and deplores the effect which i'm |
Dudent or slGtternly maid servants are |
likely to have upon the temper and patience |
If the head Of the establishment.
AS he rolls and tumbles over his feather
)cd, In roou hotter than the stokeroom OF |
IN ocean steamer and more sitting than the |
'outh side OF st. Louis, and hears the mos
quito pirates humming their cruel chorus,
while Bose. Prince. Fido. and the whole
,ack OF farmyard ours complain to the
noon. the cats walk tho night and wall.
he frogs quote ARfsroPHASEs from the
'ond. the injudicious rooster cries the
lours. and the sweet country side is as quiet |
Is the Bowery at noon. the Model Boarder
wonders II the landlady is getting a good
leep or II the temper o. the landlord Is not
ried severely by all this noise aud discom-
ort. The II. b. doesn't mind discomfort
md noise himself All he asks Is that the
andlord shall take good care OF himself and
'e clothed with patience. in addition to the
ordinary garb OF summer
With his views Of the qualifications OF sum.
ner clearinghouse keepers. the Boston
philosopher must find his summer vacation
expensive He must pay big
rice for board so as to put the master OF
he house in good humor 1t would seem to
% his duty to furnith q saddle horse, a BIZ
ycle, perhaps a sailing yacht 30 that the
keeper may have suf-
Client exercise and recreation to main
ain high degree OF health. Physicians
aight have to be called In to examine and
eport the condition Of the great mans
ealth from time to time. The better his
ealth the better his temper. the more
lastic his patience. and the more satisfactory
Is beds and his meals II he should happen
0 be little fastidious about his food, 1t would
Q Desirable 70 board him st pEINoaIoo's !