Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-18

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SULLIVAN COUNTY. n, Y. Aug. 12.-Did
You ever stop i'll country village2 Not at
the line hotel, where you are charmingly
heeced, and where you don't begin to
have the comfort YOU get at home; and
where YOU are bound to be in fine linen
the greater part Of the time? But did you
ever stop right in village? That's where
I am now. The house is pretty one,
painted that peculiar color dear to all
southerners, a clear yellow, and all about
~ are beds of bright.hued flowers The
N family consists Of the lady who has taken
me in: of rather shiftle5s husband, who
! talks large and does little; and of boy of
~. My room is big and square and airy;
she bed is comfortable, and the towels are
!, FIRST cousins to good-sized sheets, very
v unlike the average New York boarding
house towe!. The jugs are big ones, and
full of fresh water; and my close com
panio9n Is provided. with Q, tin bath, in
u which TO take his daily additions.
Altogether, we feel that we are very COM
4 Portable.
The parlor, which is open for my bene-
tit, has an old-fashioned suit of horse hair
furniture, u case of wax flowers on the
centre table, several marvellous paintings
on the wall and motto, which might
hostess told me that it was embroidered by
. little daughter who had ceased to live.
Once ensconced, | began to get acquainted
with the villagers. That is to say, was
regularly called on. The calling took place
iii the hottest part of the afternoon, and
frock and put me through series of ques-
tions that suggested Ollendurtf, She first
asked: YOU'RE
FROM NEW YORK Amt You?"
| confessed to the crime. Then she said
'llow do you like the town. l told her |
liked il very much, and then she asked me-
IF had been to the Opera House ~ |
told her hadn't, but hoped to before |
left; after this, inquired as to the num-
Der of children she bad, discovered there
was girl of Is, and asked her to send her
over to see me that evening. Upon which
she gave q satisfied giggle and said "Our
Florence likes city people and she will be
more than pleased to come"
YOUTHFUL COUNTRY CALLERS.
The evening brought Florence. She was
tall and slender, with dark brown, yelvety
eyes that never seem TO rest and blonde
lair that might have belonged to some
daughter of the sun. 1t was true her frock
fitted her abominahly but no ill-iitting
frock could hide the beauty of that
face. We went out for little drive and
then the girl talked; she said ~ suppose
hln All WTOHE 4 suppose IL ldtllpT ana
mother knew, they would think it's dread
full, but have gotten so don't believe in
anything or anybody. It's work most of
the time, and see how much You can save
the rest, and mother says will see the ad-
vantages of it when she is dead, but |
would rather see it now. don't know
what want just want toget away from
here. Yes, do know what | want; | want
some pretty clothes, and want somebody
To tell me am pretty. expect you think
am dreadful, but somehow, don't seem
TO care" The drive was not a particularly
pleasant one; even my little companion
looked up at Florence with ama2ement,
for she took no notice of him, and he was
not used to treatment of that sort. That
night the future seemed to come to me,
and saw mother weaping for daugh-
ter who was not, anu who had been driven
from her simply because she had saved the
few dollars that might have been spent in
giving her pleasure and which would now
do her no good, for She had gone where
her pretty face would find plenty of dol
lars for her. No love had ever been en-
PLANTED in her heart, and she would soon
forget the people in the country village.
DELIGHTFUL RURAL HOME.
The next day my landlady said to me
you are going to have another caller this
just before supper time. Her frock was
made with entire disregard for style, but
with beautiful consideration for comfort
The greater time she talked to me she
laughed, and, AS the sweetest sort of an
introduction, she had brought me a posy
of all the sweet.smelling flowers that grow
in u country garden. She said people
say | take life easy. Well, perhaps, do,
but the children like it, and, if we Amt
saving up any money, we are making them
have good time now; they are going to
have dance this evening; won't you come
oyer?"
1said would, and was escorted by theson
an heir of the family. On the way over he
told me his Everybody likes to 20 to
that house. Nothing is trouble; the bows
are always ready to do anything, and the
girls are always ,obligng and sweet. and
was corpse in it," When We got there i
found party, Of young, merry peoples
: found a round table covered with maya
zines and newspapers Of the day, and /
found that most delightful of all things-a
hearty welcome. One girl played the
piano and the rest danced, while MY escort
looked at the magazines on the table They
were going to
GET UP A VIRGINIA REEL,
and when said did not dance any more
! was laughed at, and told that father and
mother always came into that, and, of
course, | must. So father and stood ut
the head, and mother and small boy of
SSNell NJ lne lODl, anu We danced away as
If we had never danced before Then we
had Ice cream and cake, which the girls
had made, ana II was ice cream-there was
no corn starch in it-and after we went
away my escort told me that all the girls
OF that house were engaged to .bc married
engaged to city men and that while
some people who were very strict thoupht
that mother did not hold tight enoiI,,h
rein on the boys and girls. still they seemed
To turn out better and have u better time
than anybody in the village. And /
thought TO myself, "Oh, wise mother y
And in the future seemed to see BOYS and
their wives and babies, and girls and their
husbands and babies coming back to the
old home to sec mother; to tell her of their
joys and SORROWS and to find in that
mother heart a never-faiing spring of
sympathy.
THE VILLAGERS PROMISING SON.
The delight of the village and nv own
joy was the boy who lived in the house
with me. He was IA years old but his de-
sire for knowledge was fourteen hundred
years. He would carry water all day for
the elephant to get free admission to the
circus. He would work like a tiger fixing
things around the swimming pool, and he
would be too tired to chop a little wood
He was perfectly UP in every play that had
been at the Opera House since 1t had first
been built. BY the by, why is it in a small
village that the theatre is always called the
Opera House? He took me to the min
strels. We occupied corner seats on the
front row, and he informed me what Jokes
were old and what ones were not, and lie
had an immense contempt for . woman
DANCER. he was quite honest in telling me
he did not care much for Shakespeare
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