Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-07-09
special ccrrespondenceot OF Gazette and journal


special ccrrespondenceot Gazette and journal
New York, July 2.-Before one goes
out of town for the summer, one goes
here and there on visits or outings, or
for that most awful time, a day in, the
country. Years ago, gave up the
doubtful pleasure of day in the
country. / meant getting up three
hours before the usual time, dressing
in q great hurry, swallowing cup of
coffee, hot enough to burn not only
your throat, but your soul, and then
rushing for the train only to discover
that you are three-quarters of an hour
ahead Of time. When the country is
reached, You cit around in your best
clothes and talk about the city. At
l2 o'clock you have hot dinner, and
ns result, the perspiration runs like
rain, your bangs become disreputable,
Rpd you wish you lived at the North
Poe. Then your hostess asks you IL
you wouldn't like to take off your
dress and lie down for an hour, but
knowing what is expected Of you, you
decline and sit up in stiff STAYS, and
high boots and your best frock all dur
ing the long warm afternoon, trying to
be pleasant and discussing whose pat
terms are the best fitting. Then, at 6
O'Clock, you have another hot meal,
and at you start for the train armed
with bunch of daisies, a basket of
raspberries and flower, in pot. When
you get home and look at the rasp.
berries, you realize that you could buy
better at the butcher shop; when you
gaze upon the daisies you see that
they are wilted and wan. Then you
allow your angry passions to RISE and
you fire the flower pot out of the
window, with the chance of hitting a
man on the head. The average woman
changes so much. After this, il you
have anything masculine attached to
your household, you fall into its arms
and swear that never again will you go
to spend day in the country.
BAB TAKES WEEK.
Igo for an outing. That means week,
and j don't propose, when / arrive,
to impress the country people with my
knowledge of city fashions. Instead, l
Try to find out what they know. /
usually discover that they have deal
more knowledge than l. They have
plenty Of time TO read, and they have
plenty Of time to be considerate Of each
other. In a big city, if sickness or
death comes to you, the people on the
floor above or people on the floor below
may stop the piano during the funeral
services. but that is the extent of their
interest. In the country it is different.
II you are i'll, the neighbors visit you,
send you things TO eat and do every.
thing in their power to keep life III you,
and il life and you happen to be two
they rob their gardens of their white
flowers, they rob their wardrobes of
their black gowns and give the first
and lend the last in honor of the dead.
II is all very human.
AS soon as you arrive in the country
to stay week, the girl from next door
comes in to borrow some baking
powder from your hostess. This is a
snare. In an hours time she has
found out from you how tho hair is
worn in the city, whether sleeves are
as large as they were last summer,
what the last new novel is, what is
the last new slang, and whether white
shoes are worn to church. You see,
they are three months ahead on this
information IL they get it from you in.
stead of writing to the editor of somt
fashion plate. After the girl from
next door has thoroughly pumped you,
you have the privilege of living anG
enjoying yourself.
AND SHE Is ACCOMMODATING.
When ] am in the country, / like tc
help. There is pleasure, a warn
pleasure, in picking the crrrants that
are to be used to make that beautiful
red jelly; there is not quite SO muct
pleasure 10 collecting raspberries, bu
after you have gotten tin pail full e
them, you begin to realize why they
sell them by the box in the city. Ont
has to gather such lot to fill any
thing. Country people don't appre
ciate their blessings. There is butter
milk--cool, rich, and with lovely littl,
dots OF golden butter all over it, it il
drink fit for the gods-nectar il
nothing beside it, but country people
think nothing of it and give it to tn,
pigs. Still, country pigs, in the form
of sweet hams, do have taste reached
by no other porcine beasts, since the,
seem favored with buttermilz ant
hickory nuts l never knew anybod,
in the country who was fond of butter
milk, eggs or lettuce. They ar
counted as worthless.
h But to return to my outing. Bal
arrived on Saturday, and on Sunda,
Hhe went TO church.
The very vilest sinner goes to churcl
in the country, or else the vilest SHINE
will have no standing whatever
Country people think little of me as
churchgoer. / don't dress enough, an,
one snub-nosed young woman mad
her nose more retrousse by fitting i
up and saying within my hearing
'She has only got on cotton frock
and not even white kid gloves y
You see, the fashion papers teacl
them that white kid gloves shoul
be worn with cotton frock, and tina
a cotton suit is not adapted to forma
occasions, and if there is anythin
formal in the country, it lie church
going. Nice old gentlemen who wer
perfectly at their ease yesterday in
free easy get up, look like martyr
in black cloth belongings and froc
coats on Sunday l thought overy Il
in the village was on my hostess bac
flor flies adore black silk until tw
or three began to dance around m
nose. Why can't country people dres
properly for church? No matter wha
their belief is, why need they max
their poor bodies suffer the tortures G
SatanIand while they are trying
praise God? Still, let us be respectabl
or live in the city.
Last Sunday the minister gave ou
that on Tuesday night there would b
fair to raise money TO carpet tn
parsonage. That parsonage is alway
wanting new carpet. But, as th
average clergyman has from eight t
ten we'll springs of pleasure prancin