The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-12-15
A WELCOME VISITOR,
TIVE VILLAGE SHEET FROM THE OLD
HOME EAGERLY READ.

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Now the Country Weekly Papsrs stir the
Memories VI Many . City Man and wom-
an Whc Have Spent Year, Away From
the Scenes Ut Youth aud ru..
Thursday In always Z red letter day for
me il ! am At home" said we'll known
banker rs he sat in his library on that day
81 the week with his wife close by, land il
Is such day because il Il then that read
my country paperA That is what my wife
and were doing when you came, and was
thinking what delightful visitor ones
country weekly is II does not interfere
with the city newspaper. A metropolitan
daily covers the city and the world and Is
altogether great and wonderful. but the
village weekly, Insignificant - IL looks, is
almost as indispensable to every right
minded man who began life in the country.
| There must be thousands, even tens Of
thousands, OF these papers taken in New
York. for great proportion OF the men
and women OF New York are country born
and very many were country bred To
them the village paper published wherever
they hailed from Is printed letter from
home. and 1t Is thousand times more COM
/
amateur correspondent would or could
write"
DO not let me interrupt your pleasure.
Finish reading your budget Of news"
No" said the banker. II will talk about
tia moment more instead. II it were not
for these two newspapers that come to me
every Thursday from Monmouth county,
y. j., where our old homestead is situated.
! would not have nearly ~ sensible An idea
OF my position in life and my relation to
the world a. | have. Here | read every
week Of men and women grown to man
hood and womanhood whom knew aS lit
tie toddlers-even rs babies in arms Nv
wife and have just read OF fine perform.
ance on the piano by the daughter OF man
who was little too young for me to play
with when was a lad. That little boy has
grown up and got children, and so am
made aware that the gray hairs in my head
and over my ears have come to me uatu
rally
One needs his wife by him in order to
read the home weekly intelligently She,
for instance, has called my attention to the
advertisement OF great boot and shoe
store, the proprietor OF which was the baby
IN arms in house where | once went reyu-
larry every Wednesday and Sunday night
had me for suitor-l say she might, who
can tell,-if she had not very ostentatiottsly
shown preference for another fellow. She
Is a farmers wife now. and in a recent COPY
vi my country paper | read Of her being
down with diphtheria Just fancy having
dangerous disease like that in a farming
section, eight miles from u doctor, and
devillsh poor. old fogy. harrow minded
country doctor when you get him"
You talk ~ II you were very old"
oh, no" said the banker My age Is
very little past 10, and il my paper shows
me that little tosidlers Of my boy hood ara
now ~ or s. and keeping stores 1t also en-
courages me in the contrary way, for here,
In an account OF n guessing party last week,
ARE the names OF two or three old beaux
who seemed to ME To he old beaux when |
WAS schoolboy suppose they were 30 or
80 at the time, and now they are 80 or s.
Ny wife. who goes to the country more
frequently than l. assures me that they
still look about ~ they did when we were
children. fou zee the delightful and com
forting moral OF such news is that there i,
heap more contrast between boy Of Ii
and man Of 26 than there is between a
man OF 10 and one Of 80 years. | see here in
town how men who take care Of themselves .
seem to stand still after they are fully /
grown.
Thank God the decay Is nothing like as |
rapid as the development OF manhood Eel /
lows when they get past 10 grow little /
deeper lines in their faces develop a littIs /
more under their vaistcoats and show some
gray hair, but that is all lfthey are care
fuI, they do not get old in hurry Old |
JohD Anderson, the man who made mil.
lions from chewing tobacco, WAS u wonder
full example OF what man could do in the
way OF preserving even his figure. Long
after he WA, 10 be was IA spare and jaunty
as any fellow OF 80, and 80 be remained till
be died-'dried up and blew away, a. we
used to say in the country"
but you are forgetting the best tina,
we get from the country weeklies" said
the wife For me they are most delight
tui because they carry me back to the fun
and frolcs we used to have when | was a
schoolgirl All, dear, when | used to take
on my shoes and hide them in the bushes
IS soon as got mile from home, where
could run barcfooted without my mothers
finding 1t out
That is not all that you have told me
you us~'i to hide, my DEAR" said the bank
er, with merry twinkle in his eyes.
On, my little hoops, yon mean" said
hts Jolly wife, nothing daunted That IA
true enough, They used to get in the way
when wanted to climb trees and fences |
took them OFT also. and then | wa. free |
With only my little girl friends around me
and with all OF them OF one mind, what
did 1t matter"
Adelaide is right" said the banker
w hat n host Of lively memories came back
tonight with the village papers, What
'kylarking and homely pleasure we both
experienced again There wa. an adyer
.isernent that a certain hotel at Oceanuort
was open for sleighing suppers and dances
80 1t used to be in my time--the same creak
ng Old tavern, | suppose-and what vision.
u rosy checked, sparkling eyed maidens
md Ut tucsing them in straw a the bottom
u sled aud OF getting one-this one here
on alone IN shiny new cutter, and OF
hiding dance going on; all these things
ane up again just from reading that hotei
Ieeper's card
II you knew the people who are men
Toned IN our two country week lies, We could
ak to you Interestingly for an hour Of the
ews we got from them tonight, but yon
ont. 10 we had better change the SUI beet
New York sun.