The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-31

is fond of CARRYING the necessary uten-
sis. but | think she would rather sit
ldown and talk about how and where to
buy a shirt waist for S1.9S that at every
place else would cost 50 than to play
Iany outdoor game, Advertised bargain
sales of shirt waists would draw the
lwearer Of them TO the warmest place
imaginable. and the shirt waist fends
will stand ten deep and lose all de-
cency of manner and speech in their
determination to be in at the finish
land possess one of the shirt waists so
lavishly described in printers ink. 1t
is true that they are too often mistF,s,
land it is also true that their material
will fade under an intense smile, but
still when they come from bargain
counter they have virtue only appre-
ciated by their buyers.
GOING TO SPEND THE SUMMER.
One Of the chief charms of going
AWAY for the summer is the packing
of trunks. My advice to every sensible
woman is this: IF you have attached
to your menu anything that is mascu-
| line. hand over your keys to him and
let this bacll-breaking, thought-con-
Stunning business be conducted by him
Man in the abstract is worthless as
far as woman's clothes are concerned,
but man, the individual, can go over
your belongings, pick out just what
YOU want, and pack your trunk 50 that
| it viii lock. That is great victory.
never saw a trunk packed by NO
man that would lock at the first call.
| Some times it does. after the boys haN
jumped on it, and the strap has be, II
| drawn, but usually a woman has 10
| tip an eXpreSSman to do ,the locking.
| He first ties a rope around the trun>,
| then slams it on the floor, and then
turns the key with scorn, and without
| trouble. \ woman knows nearly always
what she wants to take 10 the coun-
| try with her, but she doesn't place
| her properties well. She knows she
can't buy the baby's timed food up
| country, and so she wraps up innum-
cradle cans of it and lays them between
| Marian's ordandy frocks, because they
do not make heavy trunk. OF course
| the tins leak. and Marian, who is eigh-
teen, and expecting to look like a
| flower in these organdy frocks, doesn't
quite wish the baby hadn't been born,
but does wish that-well, anyhow she
wishes the cans hadnN leaked. She
called them some kind of cans, but |
have forgotten what
One of the boys invariably reminds
you that, once you are in the country,
YOU have to drive four miles to buy
ink, and that when you buy it it is
Iabominably pale. So, being a woman,
Iyou JOY in harmony, and in the trunk
with he books and your husbands
lhalf-finished novel, goes the ink. Every
man who lifts that trunkful of books
swears until he is the color of a lob
ster; and every man who swears at
that trunk throws it down, hoping to
smash it. But no man succeeds How
ever, one of these gentlemen manages
to break the ink bottle, and the novel
reeks with dark deeds and black fluid.
And everybody is sorry
ON NATURES MEADOWS.
Still, everybody is in the Country,
and no matter what ones woes are,
they lessen somehow when one looks
at the beautiful trees, realizes that the
grass extends further than the plot
in the backyard, and drinks in the air.
so full of good tastes. City air always
reminds me of that perfume called
opopanax, the combination of which
is only known to the chemists, and the
result of which is only pleasing TO
whispered that opopanaX was made OF
the tails of little pigs boiled down, but
| don't believe anything so crude
could result i'm anything SO complex.
When the wind blows over the city,
one eagerly swallows mouth full of
air, and gets microbes, dirt, various
unpleasant things in the way of vege-
tables, flowers and people who are
more or less decadents, while in with
the other things comes that strong
odor that always permeates the air
when many people breathe into 1t.
In the country the air tastes differ
emily. 1T always reminds me of a COWS
breath; that smells of clover, suggests
new milk and is altogether dainty. No
|after-dinner cachou was ever made that
could give such perfume as this.
1t never makes much difference
when you have a big, comfortable
room to sleep in and fields and groves
to move around in, what you get to
eat in the country. But if you are
civilized you don't want to stay there
after the summer days. Civilization
is mistake. 1t causes you to long
when the warm days have gone by for
the good things of the flesh, and the
country does not set them forth. The
idea of serving in the country is pri-
meval (the typewriter spelt that prime
evil, and | WAS going to let it go at
first, but | thought perhaps somebody
would think | did not know the mean
| ing of the word. Vanitas!)
COUNTRY COFFEE AS 4 DRINK.
In the country, coffee is counted best
at its weakest, and there is a fancy
| for drinking ii over curiously shaped
stone wall, which the country people
| call a cup. But when one can breathe
good air what difference does it make
about the coffee? Whether it is, after
| the German fashion, black as night,
sweet as love and strong as the devil,
or whether it is from Sevres or the
other thing? You don't care much
| about your coffee or your tea in the
country. You can sit in the shade and
| get great draughts of sweetness, the
| result of the farmer cutting down
| something, we ignorant city people
| don't know what, but we do know it
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