The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-07-19

The time has now come Nlcl loNclr
woman, having stopped to folly in the
way Of leaving everything too late, IS
searching for Il summer place. She reads
guidehooks and sends to all the railroads
for those pamphlets that describe cheap
and nasty farmhouSeS. She nSWc adj
vcrtiscmcntS by the hundreds. and she *
willing to take cyeryhodyS advice as t.
where she is to abide during the long
summer days. She is uncertain as to
whether it is the mountain or sea air
that she wants. She claims Il positive
contempt for Il big hotel. but nothing
will induce her to 20 into 4 boarilng-
house. The kind of place she. wants IS
in reality the one which IS next door 10
Heavcn-absolutely the ideal
In the first place, it must be near
enough to the city for the father OF the
tribe 10 come out Friday evening and
remain until Monday morning. Then 1t
must be too far from the city for all
ones poor relations to come down and
spend the day. The rooms must be com
Portable. and yet she doesn't propose to
pay the price that the landlord demands.
She would prefer to be near Il lake. be
cause She would like the boys to learn
the difference between an eel and Il rat
tlesnake, and yet She would like to be
far enough from the lake to prevent
thcresbein@ a funeral III the family. She
wishes the boys to learn to swim. but
She has Il sort of idea that in learning
this accomplishment they should begin
i'll the bathtub. She doesn't know thar
the little tikcS have been swimming this
many Il day, and that they learned III
what might be called Il practical fashion
that is to say. the biggest boy threw
the |littlcst one i'll the water and warned
lT,, - l., l1I,'+ .,,i,, 4 IL In, I, --n,rIl
not only drown, but get Il thrashing.
THOSE DECEPTIVE ADVERTISE
MENTS.
Then she would like an arist0cratic
Observation-Disclosures ncighborlood whore
there are some nice young fellows who
are likely to inherit some good old du-
cats-hut it must be the sort of place
where ariStocracy and &~habbincSs 90
hand in hand, since on account OF the
war she must cconomiZc, and the girls
have got to Wear last seasons frocnS
fixed over. Then she feels as if she
had a longing to get where she would
be free from the bondage Of servants
and able to eat her Inner as if she were
an independent woman so she travels
for hours on Il hot day over Il dusty
road only to find that advertisements do
not always picture things as they are.
and that the country home so beautifully
described doesn't compare for c%oplncSs
with her own house i'll the city. Then
she goes cavorting around, trying to find
Il resting place where there Is country
air. Thank goodness, YOU can have
plenty of that without being charged
extra for every mouthful, plenty Of
grass, mountains at the back of II. Wl-
ter not very far from ii. fresh butter
and vegetables, milk from Il cow and not
.-1 +ia. 800.
not Witnesses Of the late G.. Washing
tons will,
1t is almost unnecessary to say that
this place is never found. but every
blessed woman among us looks for it
every summer. sheds bitter tears over
the unreiiahility of printed descriptions
and then trotS off to the best place that
she can get and tries to be happy. If
there is anybody in the world who
knows Il rathet lonely and somewhat
Iorn place where they know how to make
corn bread, serve chickens fried i'll era
Wy after the Maryland fashion, make
Il cup of good coffee. and where permits
sion is accorded one to dress as one
pleascS, to read when one plcaScs. and
not to get too intimate with the family
unless one 50 desires. let her or him
write to me. | don't pretend TO say there
are not such places. | only say that
somehow or other we don't seem to find
them, and yet we don't demand much.
THE SUSPICIOUS LANDLADY.
The average country boarding-houSe
keeper takes Il dislike to the woman
from the city who has come to rest. She
objects tcrCcly to our wearing a cloth
skirt, Il shirt waist. lying i'll Il hammock
and reading. She thinks it is your duty
as ii Christian to bring along ali your
hest trockS, to show them to her, to tell
her how much they cost, and who made
them. and then when the usual fair is
gwen Sh" prefers that YOU should dress
as If you were going to the opera, for
then her special chum can whisper to
h"r: oh, | say, Marthy. amt them
city women wicked, showing their nccks
that way and their arms all bare! |
can 1t perfectly indecent, And before
the minister, too.'
And the lady who cntertains a few
guests for a consideration says in re-
~ponso: well, Well, When you have
seen as much of the world as | have
! ono" Staid nearly two weeks in NV
York City-yOu Will know that as bad as
these women look they might be worsc.'
-And YOU hear this doubtful praise. Butt
when a party go to Il farmhouse and lie
around on the grass and in hammocks
and read and play with the chickens and
lind out exactly how much intelligence Il
turkey has land if YOU devoted a
month to studying Il turkey, rs | once
did. you would know that he has Il lot
more sense than men; | will tell you why
some day. but that will be another sto-
ryb and don't wear fancy clothes and
are not ov~cr-anXious to confidc their
family affairs to the lady who. just to
he polite, has taken them in in more
senses than onc-Wcll. for such an indie
pendent crowd as this there is but little
interest, and they are counted mighty
queer.
DON'T LIKE NO CHEAP MAN"
ny tn" by, how was it eyer started:
o'll I mean Il summer boarding house.
''''li an idea. Whoever started the
81 'h'' the summer girl was cheap:
She is Il dclusion and = snarn On ,c.