The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-13
COUNTRY FOLK LAUGHING NOW.
City Golden Geese Have Gone Home
and BucOIlc Outlaws Break Loose.

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Up In the frosty mountains and down
aiohg the sandy seashore the country
ioiks are having IAN awfully lovely
party now. They are talking us oyer.
All summer long they have managed
TO Keep reasonably sober faces over the
freaks of city folks. Now they are
having their laugh.
| 'lty folks are not always so consid-
| crate. They don't want TO get back to
town before talking over their country
heighbors. They have a cheerful way
or acting as IL they were visiting a
zoo and the make remarks about
the milkman and the vegetable man
ana the rest OF the inhabitants OF the
countryside as il the latter We're rhin-
oceroses or hippopotamuses. But there
- tradition to the effect that he who
laughs last laughs best, and that gives
the countryman the best OF IL. II is
ms turn now. Even during the sum-
ilef the country folks can't always
Keep the twinkle out of their eyes. They
are respectful TO the city folks as one
Is apt TO be TO the goose with the gol-
den egg. Nevertheless, they are very
sure IL is goose.
"A young woman who built a cottage
up the state" few years ago. cele-
brated its completion by giving a
v
ana boy that had driven a nail or done
a stroke OF work about the place. and
she told them TO bring their wives.
children, sisters and sweethearts The |
uay or the housewarming arrived In /
the course OF the morning the young /
woman met various of her invited /
guests on the rad, and to each one she
addressed genial inquiry.
called
oh, very carelessly, "I don't know"
Inc prospective hostess spent the day
In the greatest doubt as to whether a |
soul would be present at her marty |
however, her fears were unnecessary |
Al the timely hour of seven the people |
began To arrive. They all rode no mat
ter now near they lived They all car
iled lanterns, and they all took the
norses out or the wagons, as il they |
intended TO stay a week. The women |
ma babies came i'm at the front door. |
Fhe men all skunk around the house
ma went in by the side door. They SEEM |
VI 10 want TO put off the evil hour of their |
irrival Just as long as they possibly |
'ould. The babies We're accommodated |
N hammocks out on the porch.
This left their mothers free to in
pect the new house. which had been
,ullt on the very original lines laid
Town by the young woman. The |
women were politeness itself. They did
ot laugh once, and they made great
mort not 10 show that they thought il |
vas the funniest kind of a house they
al ever seen. Said one of them i'm "A |
one OF forced enthusiasm:
wen, could most live here myself"
5 III praise could go no further.
said another, condescendngly:
wen, 1 s'pose you git so tired bein'
II hXed up in the city in the winter .
hat you jest like 10 have things kind
queer like this ha
The party was really success how ~
yer. one old fellow played the violin | >
nd the assembled company, most of
Ie Dabies excepted, danced a Virginia
'el: The hostess danced with the
ackman or the garbage boy; she "
'emed to be a little uncertain about 81
le identity. but it is safe TO suppose =.
lat the ordeal was a worse one for 81
IN than it was for her. m
i mere were refreshments, too. special | cl
od having been provided by the &C
hostess for the infantile ''
~ OF the company. But this fore
sht was all wasted. The babies wero of
q on cocoanut cake! The hostess m
traded the special infantile food be- -
re the eyes of the mothers, but no, J ~
ley said the babies preferred cocoa DC
Il cake al
Now all the city folks sorrowed ar
eatly because they were not invited -
is the kind of grief they would have WI
c at missing a dime museum or a gu
lie show. And they laughed hugely ,
er the few details OF the affair which
came public property. That Is the an
~ they always do. They think the fo
lntry folks are excruciatingly funny tir
they are as sure about il as il s,,
IRE could not possibly be any differ -
ce of opinion. va
Gut the country folks know better. OF
ey bide their time and. when the sta
'se has migrated for the winter, they hi,
p their faded knees and have more
than anybody telling about "the j
rndest queer lot o. folks you ever wh
That is what they are doing lip-
v. Up in the frosty mountains they
laughing about us till the valleys ''e
% and re-echo with the sound of il. is
down along the sandy seashore of
y are doing the same thing with so the
ch glee that the very waves gurgle tio
ng the beach in sympathy.-The Gle