The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-10


''TUT. TUT. woMANr"
gum, and the black gum sway to and fro
In the clear and beautiful haze. Here and
there the sweet potato vine sprawls over
the rich and auburn soil or the water
melon hurries rapidly along to overtake
the swift growing vine to which it be-
l.Iongs.
In my vegetable garden see the tall,
graceful growth of the asparagus, which
| should have eaten while it was Young.
but man told me here that asparagus
was often destroyed by using the tender
shoots. He advised me to wait until the
plants should be in full bearing. have
done so, but with i'll success. The fruit
is small and still green. hardly think
there will be enough for mess.
My radishes are very large now, but
on biting into them | find them filed
with keen, searching wind, while the
radish itself is poor, and our guests re-
fuse them. Our white Swedish turnips
also are slow. and those we have tasted
remind me of carpet warp boiled with
boneset. They are bitter, fibrous, and
altogether we have lost two boarders on
that account.
Mrs. Trip, who Is spending the sum-
mer here to cure her little son of the
Lazarus difficulty, says that she cannot
promise to come next year if we con-
tinue to live on fresh vegetables grown
on the place.
why not?" calculated. That's the
reason you came"
Never mind" she retorted. II never
thought that such things could be made
as you seem to raise on your place."
Tut, tut. woman | exclaimed, ris-
ing to my full height. Il plant these
things, but the All Seeing Hand causes
them to grow. Do not revile me or try
to cut down your board because power
that is unse n and beyond the knowl.
edge Of man sees fit to fill our radishes
with oxygen"
| hate to board people who come from
a small town. They are the worst. They
keep telling me that at home they keep
a carriage and don't get up till o'clock.
They came from Rossville, Richmond
county, and register from New York.
Their children at table eat like the Piute
Indians.
We had one lady last year from Eliza
beth, n. }. She claimed to be a New
York lady and came here to cure a
gOitre. She claimed that it was a royal
goitre handed down to her from Henry
Will | suppose that it was handed
down by means Of clothesline or some
thing. SO as not to stun her.
| bate to speak of peoples peculiari-
ties. but this goitre was the main thing,
and she was only associated with it in
some slight way. so | speak of it fully.
The trio would come down to breakfast
together and tell about New York till l
got worn out waiting for a chance to
tell about fibrous tumor l had once,
but she was here all summer and went
home in September, and my fibrous tu-
NOR never got the speakers eye for an
instant.
She took the top off the milk at first,
so we got to passing it around the other
way. Her name was Mudge-Mrs.
Nudge of Elizabeth, n. j., U. S. A.
She said she came to our house because
she wanted to be i'll literary atmos-
phere, so we gave her the room where l
keep my Congressional Records She
slept there all summer-she and her
Henry VIII goitre liked to draw her
out regarding Henry and his peccadillos
and peculiariries. She would shed tears
if | spoke lightly of the monarch or his
liaisons and turn the conversation to
New York.
h11f wifi ifo
neck will not be taken at our house any
more, no matter what be the price she
pays for her board. Moreover, her lit
tie son ate loaded" watermelon from
my patch the first day he was here, so
had to ride in the night for doctor, and
yet the boy lived to chase my cows over
the lea in the summer tide and get their
milk all het up, SO that his mother
threatened to go and board elsewhere on
account of the milk.
A man with phthisis also boarded with
US two months and four days last sum-
mer. He did not mind Mrs. Nudge
when he wanted to tell about his phthi-
sis. He went right on, and so our
breakfast was about as chatty as any
meal we had. He coughed an $1S bed
stead down, and put it in his bill, and
Mrs Nudge thought it was inhuman.
told her to shut up or fu stop her cracked
wheat on her.
Boarders are hard to get along with,
and as soon as get my place here paid
for and the other installment on my
well shall not take any more to board.
Too many of them think that they suffer
so much they ought not to pay for their
board.
One elderly maiden lady could not go
to sleep unless held her hand. And she
was plain too. She was trying this eli
mate on her face, she said. could not
see that it did any good. She wanted to
go to sleep just at the time wanted to
do my chores at the barn and bed down
the team. Her complexion was the color
Of a soft shell turtles stomach. Of course
she was not to blame for that, but /
should have made her board s. per week
higher. She was from Fishkill, but
claimed to be a refined New York city
belle. Once she wanted to tell me her
history, but | told her that had prom
ised to wind the clock and go to bed by
a quarter of 10. So escaped.
One drawback about keeping board
ers in healthy resort of some notoriety
is that more or less medical attendance
is called for with the board l can
figure on the victuals, but cannot cal
culate on the wear and tear in cases of
heart disease five miles from a physician.
Once a casual acquaintance from
Yonkers asked me by mail if could
take his uncle, who was needing change
and country air. | told him my rates
for rooms and meals and week later
got up at o'clock a. m. to go and meet