Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-07-21
REACHED The IDEAL PLACE
Bah and Her Family Are Fixed
for the Summer.
NO NEED TO MAKE AN APOLOGY
A Village Undertaken With an
Eye to Business.



Special Correspondence of Gazette and Journal
New York. July 14.-We-that is, tue
large establishment in which number
Of people, including me, two dogs and
q canary bird, are counted-haYe de-
cided to what place we will his { |
rather like that expression; it sounds
as il j had intentions toward the
STACEY. Really. we think the ideal
place is reached. 1t is farm with
lot of room outdoors and not too much
in. Consequently the supply Of boarders
is limited. The landlady has snme ideas
tending toward civilization, since thsrs
is a bathtub, and she can realize, un-
like the average lsndlady, that people
of fastidious tnstea prefer when there is
only one tub in the house to have it
intimately acquainted with the scrub
bling brush and some soda and hot
water once in awhile. ! once went to
a farmhouse in the really rightly"
country where fused to help with the
tea things, assist the ''purps" to chase
the mice in the barn and teach the
girls in the family how to cut their
| skirts after the latest fashion. but woe
| ia me The mouse no longer fears me.
! for when l start to run twinge OF
| rheumatism announces to him that
| Grabbed youth and rheumatism cannot
run after him with success, though
! they do sometimes.
| However, to return to the present,
which when one has passed 81 is always
\ pleasanter than the past, we are hers.
Like the detective 10 the melodrama
who always pups up and saves the
heroine, 1--WE hars cams" How We
will like it remains t0 lie seen. This
morning, when felt little poorly and
one sh utter would shake, our courteous
landlady fetched a genial looking gen
tleman to arrange the shutter, who,
seeing me arrayed as most people ara
who are in bed, gave me no opportunity
10 say anything, but announced that
he had daughters of his own and /
needn't apologies. He little knew that
had no intention of doing this, for ]
had put on a matinee Jacket with pink
ribbons especially for his benefit. Al
first did not understand exactly why
be looked at me. with what seemed a
measuring eye. He appeared to be tax
ing me in by inches.
Then think Of it! I learned that this
shutter fixing person was the village
undertaken, and BIS was staring at mt
with an eye to business. But / eu
glad to know that, gentle and genial al
! be uas,-he will never make anything
of me, for when l bid good-by to thi
gay and festive world shall depart II
plain pine box. want nobody t,
look at me and want to be taken to m,
Z grave In n wagon and have only
; couple of the men of my family at th'
r funeral. Or
Have you ever seen what I call
, gsntsei poor funeral2 They feel, a
I nobody else does, that they must q
. into debt and suffer for months in orde
I to give what they call "a prope
I funaral'' to their dead. 1t consists il
4 spending money on an expensive caske
8 and having frightfuI looking hears
t with waving plumes upon il and Ion
D line of carriages to bring up the ren
Q as an expression OF their grief. VIII
should you and !, my friend, when W
9 can no longer protest. have stranger
d stare at us and comment on us? Wb
] should any but loving hands touch yo
d or me, and why should the living b
~ made to suffer by giving to the dea
s the money which is SO badly needed
II tell you, my friend, it is all wrong
10 all wrong.
Il But we will drop that now and tai
q about going to the country. When "
X started out, we were procession
" There we're all the rest OF them, an
then I came with the two dogs howlin
with delight because they we're goin
to ride in baggage car and be mac
ir much of. while young man who has
n weakness for me carried the canar.
lr chirping its shrillest because 1t realize
u IL was going where IL can be in Il
. sunshine all day long and csn sniff Il
very sweetest of flowers Then the
were n couple Of men who annouce
that they wouldn't carry thing, bl
10 who staggered under dress suit ca
ts containing something which was 70
Mt gotten until the last moment, viii
10 somebody elae had box of candy.
O. pound Of line tea and three umbrell
at and storm coat, which We forgot
\, put up, but they had to go. so tht
e. vent And when We got there, the
ID was large wagon to meet ue, and ,
" looked as IL We had just arrived fro
he the old country, and We went sailii
he (metaphorically) sitting Oh our trunk
in The two dogs turned up their noses
of this, SO one sat in my lap, while Mol
re beld the other one, who would insi
on trying to catch flies.
h There are times when a puppy, Chez
full as he may be, 10 somewhat in &
at way. On our arrival this truth "
be proved, since the two small fox territ
as got into fight with large collie, an
liz much to the sorrow OF our small be
,e. it was interrupted. The collie was ii
he up In the stable, while the two pu
nd went out, sat just outside ii, and
We waited as il there were going to be
nd death In the neighborhood until t
1t farmer united him, and then they
n kissed and shook paws and were 60
friends. The average dog 10 VI
peculiar and would rather cat 90
dirty old Eons covered with cold
'th and fished out Of coal Hcuttle thar
,is nice piece of chicken on q china plai
lor 10 return to the two legged ones.
tss AZ far as can he expected. we are u
,lu settled, and we sit out on the veran
la, ana are industriou. beyond sxpressl
ust and lounge 10 hammocke and read
icy go To sleep, but we take life easily
inc find that We gain fiesh by doing
n9. We HAYS wonderful discussiona,
which tho farmers daughter joins, r,
emit ming in every now and then from
to kitchen. where she is making che
the pies, TO give her opinion, which 10 no
are howsry, but a fioury, ons.
of We thRve discussed the war, xii
be the Spaniards. own the world, HAY,
on. long ago possessed the fioah and
to devil. Then we come down to cloth
ell. and the farmers daughtsr. who
rip pretty girl, with very good idea a.
the the correct thing in frocks and OF
things, said. having given the last Il
cry at the pics, ''Do you know never
any get voil to suit me -
l 4 Il III