The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-17

woman, having stopped to folly in the
way of leaving everything too late, is
searching for a summer place. She reads
guidebooks and sends to all the railroads
for those pamphlets that describe cheap
and nasty farmhouses. She answers adj
vertisements by the hundreds and she is
willing to take everybody,s advice as 10
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 a positive
contempt for a big hotel, but nothing
will induce her to go into Il boarding
house. The kind of place she wants is,
in reality the one which is next door 10
absolutely the ideal.
In the first place. it must be near
enough to the city for the father Of the
tribe to come ont Friday evening and
remain until Monday morning. Then IT
must be too far from the city for ali
ones poor relations to come down ana
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 lake. be-
cause she would like the boys to learn
the difference between an eel and rat
tlesnake. and yet she would like to be
far enough from the lake to prevent
there being Il funeral in the family. She |
wishes the boys To learn to swim, but
she has a sort of idea that in learning
this accomplishment they should begin
in the bathtub. She doesn't know that
the little tikes have been swimming this
many a day, and that they learned in
what might be called a practical fashion
that is TO say. the biggest boy threw
the littlest one in the water and warned
him if he didn't swim to shore he would
not only drown, but get Il thrashng.
THOSE DECEPTIVE ADVERTISE
MENTS.
Then she would like an aristocratic
neighborhood neighborhood where
there are some nice young fellows who
are likely to inherit some good old du-
cats-but it must be the sort of place
where aristocracy and shabbness go
hand in hand. since on account of the
war she must economic, and the girls
have got to Wear last seasons frocas
fixed over. Then she feels as il she
had longing to get where she would
be free from the bondage of servants
and able to eat her dinner rs if she were
an independent woman. So she travels
for hours on hot day over dusty
road only to find that advertisements do
not always picture things ;is they are.
and that the country home SO beautifully
described doesn't compare for GOODNESS
with her own house in the city. Then
she goes cavorting around, trying TO lind
a resting place where there is country
air. Thank goodness, YOU can have
plenty of. that without being charged
extra for every moulhful. plenty of
grass, mountains at. the back of it. wa
ter not very far frem 1t, fresh butter
and vegetables. milk from a COW and not
from a tin can. and chickens that were
not witnesses of the late G. Washing
toms will.
1t is almost unnecessary to say that
this place is never found, but every
blessed woman among us looks for 1T
every summer, sheds bitter tears over
the unreliabiity of printed descriptions
and then trots off to the best place that
she can get and tries to be happy. Ii
there is anybody in the world who
knows rather lonely and somewhat
lorn place where they know how to make
corn bread, serve chickens fried in gra-
Wy after the Maryland fashion, make
cup of good coffee. and where permis-
sion is accorded one to dress as one
pleases, to read when one pleases, and
not to get too intimate with the family
unless one so desires. let her or him
Write 10 lie. uofi pItitiid w ohs ihRit
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 clearinghouse
keeper takes a dislike to the woman
from the city who has come to rest. She
objects fiercely to your wearing cloth
skirt, n shirt waist, lying III hammock
and reading. She thinks it is your duty
as a Christian to bring along ali your
best frocks. to show them to her, to tell
her how much they cost. and who made
them, and then when the usual fair is
given she prefers that you should dress
as if you were going to the opera. for
then her special chum can whisper to
her: "Oh, / say, Marthy, amt them
city women wicked. showing their necks
that way and their arms all bare! L
call it perfectly indecent! And before
the minister. tool"
And the lady who entertans few
guests for a consideration says in re-
Spouse: "Wel, Well. When you have
seen as much Of the world as / have
] once staid nearly two weeks in Nav
York City-y0u will know that as bad as
these women look they might he worse"
And you hear this doubtful praise. But
al
around on the grass and in hammocks
and read and play with the chickens and
find out exactly how much intelligence n
turkey has land if you devoted
month to studying n turkey. as / once
did, you would know that he has lot
more sense than men; will tell you why
some day. but that will be another sto-
ry) and don't wear fancy clothes ana
are not Over-anXiOuS to conhde thelr
family affairs to the lady who, just to
be polite. has taken them in III more
senses than one-wel. 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"
BY the by, how was it ever started
l don't mean a summer boarding house.
l mean an idea. Whoever started the
idea that the summer girl was cheap:
She is a delusion and II snare. On ac-
count of the boys all being off to the war,