Middletown transcript., 1893-07-29
A soLILoQUY
'sstay-at-Home,, Draws Comforting
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ssstay-at-Home', Draws Comforting
Simile.
One Of MiddIetown's .stay- at.homes"
thus soliloqui1es on the enjoyment of life:
TO enjoy life at home at this season when
we fancy all the rest of the world are
revelling in mountain air. and sea-breezes,
is, perhaps sorry undertaking for some,
but there are others who have proved the
experiment a worthy one, have found
that staying at home even has its adyanzz
tages, and, much OF the vaunted de-
lights of the summer resorts is-to use
popular phrase purely psychological" J"
But when one big trunk after another is
piled into the expressman's cart, and day
after day We see that old white horse
tearing down the street to the station, and
our friends have all packed up and gone
away, the natural inference seems to
be that those who go are happier
than those who stay behind. l con.
fess I thought it was going to be very
lonely and dull in Middletown, with SO
many Of the wise, the great and the good
away, but as look around find there are
very many more who stay than 60, and
though the latter may be happier, they are,
after all very small minority. The rank
and the file, all over the country are still at
their post, and though many will have
brief respite during the season, many more
will hardly have day of.
If the women of household are content
and happy, the chances are that the men
are happy too, and though the thermome-
ter may be among the nineties, 1t is possible
to be comfortable in nice big house with
porches and vines and swinging. .hammocks,
such place as yours and ours for instance,
and If sweet content does not bide with US
there, we will hardly find her elsewhere
If the housewife keeps cool and main
tains an even tenor on such days as Tues
day and Wednesday, she must not do much
cooking and stewing in hot kitchen, snd |
If she sets her head about it, she will be
surprised to find how much unnecessary
cooking is done in hot weather. Now if
you are one of those dear hospitable souls
who are never satisfied without houseful
Of company and the hotter the weather the
more company and the more cooking you
have, why, I've nothing to say, only that
rye had bite of that apple and have quite
satisfied the sentiment. There is nothing
more enj oyable than to have your friends
Visit you, but few really enjoy houseful
If guests for long visit in midsummer
weather; its against nature.
We've had some ideal summer mornings
ately, and though it is delightful to snooze
he early hours away, it is even more de-
ightful to inhale the dewy fragrance of
be midsummer morn, and listen to the
music Of the feathered songsters, for the
birds are singing in every bush at o'clock
n the morning" The morning air is a
wonderful .tonic-try itl If you have to
pend the whole summer right here, don't
10 it so grudgihgly that all your friends
will wish you had gone away, but awake to
he fact that Middletown has charming
ummer homes, since yours is here.
leard lady say only the other day that
he was so glad she had home to Istay in,
he never thought about season at the
eashore, and thought if little more
ime was spent in counting our blessings,
We might not find our neighbor's good
ortune in such great contrast to our own,
fter all. A STAY-AT-HoME.