Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-17


 "TUT. TUT WOMAN" 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 longs.
 In my vegetable garden I see the tall, graceful growth of the asparagus, which I 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. I have done so, but with i'll success. The fruit is small and still green. l hardly think there will be enough for q mess.
 My radiShes are very large now, but on biting into them l find them filled 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. tibrous. and altogether We have lost two boarders on that acCOun
 Mrs Tripp. who is spepding 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:" ejaculated. That's the reason you came"
 "Never mind" she retorted. T never thought that such things could be made as you seem to raise on your place."
 Tut, tut, woman" I 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 unseen 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 Q 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. J. 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 VIII I suppose that it was handed down by means of q clothcsline or some | thing, so as not to stun her.
 hate to speak of peoples peculiari ties. but this goitre was the main thing and she was only associated with it ir some slight way. so I speak of it fully | The trio would come down to breakfast together and tell about New York till | got worn out waiting for a chance tc tell about a tibrOus tumor I had once but she was here all summer and went home in September, and my fbrous tu nor never got the speakers eye for ar | instant.
 She took the top off the milk at first so we got to passing it around the othel way. Her name was Mudge-Mrs Nudge of Elizabeth. N. J., U. S. A She said she came to our house becaus, she wanted to be in a literary atmos phere, so we gave her the room where keep my Congressional Records. Sh slept there all summer-she and he Henry VIII goitre. I liked to draw he out regarding Henry and his peccadillo and peculiarities. She would shed tear if I spoke lightly of the monarch or hi liaisons and turn the conversation t New York.
 A suburban prig with a wen on it neck will not be taken at our house an more, no matter what be the price sh pays for her board Moreover, her lii tie son ate ''loaded" watermelon froI my patch the first day he was here, so had to ride in the night for doctor, an yet the boy lived to chase my COWS eve , the lea in the summer tide and get thei , milk all het up, so that his mothe threatened to go and board elsewhere o account of the milk
 A man with phthisis also boarded wit us two months and four days last sun mer. He did not mind Mrs. Mudg when he wanted to tell about his phth sis. He went right on, and so oU
 breakfast was about as chatty as an
 meal we had. He coughed an SIS beC
 stead down, and put it in his bill, an
 Mrs. Nudge thought it was inhuman.
 told her to shut up or Tu stop her cracke
 wheat on her.
 = Boarders are hard to get along witt
 and as soon as get my place here pal
 for and the other installment on n
 well I shall not take any more to boar,