The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
A Day OF, My Dcarie.

white as snow;
Aud a welcome ';Howdy' ds!" all the green
A day Off, my dearie, for life will have
A day off. my dearie, and hand-in hand we
Where the dewdrop on the rose-ieaf Is your
lovely looking, glass.
And the rNin-Wet vlotcts blue match the
twlnkling eyes Of YOU
| a day of, my dearie- lover and lass!
day of my dearie-the hills forget the
| rho honey-bees shall lead us where the
sweetest roses grow;
And Earth shall sing and say: ut Is sum
A day Off, my dearie, for Love will have 1t
day of, my dearie: Let blossoms never
The world is sweet forever with your little
hand in mine!
| The sprlngtime smiles anew In your tender
A day Off. my dearie, and your little hand
In mine!
Atlanta Constitution.
The Exquisite Charm of Country Life
Lost by ApinG City People.
Outside the subdivided, narrow CLASH
fications of great cities, the villages and
rural towns adjacent to them ought nat
urally and legitimately to afford most
delightful opportunities for Il social life
Of exceptional charm and advantage.
Strange to say, instead of seizing upon
these and heartily enjoying freedom
which gives play to individual choice and
| taste, the jewellers in these favored places
often repudiate all that is their own by
inalienable right and endeavor to appear
as 'cititicd' as possible.
The wearying forms and rules of the
wealthiest and most formal inhabitants
regard to social habits; hospitality is reg
ulated i'll Rose lane by the laws of upper
Fifth avenue, and the cottage with two
maids for all it's service laboriously car
ries out the etiquette of an establishment
with host of servants.
There is no spontaneity, no freshness,
no expression of personal fancy or i'm
agination, but the most painful following
Of whatever may be the fad of the
hour among those who move like great
army under the command of Il leader,
says the New York Evening Post Vii
lase life cannot, in even Il remote way,
give force or charm to those details which
serve to amuse that fashionable world
of idlers who can detail some specialist
to devise some new thing for every
varying entertainment. How infinitely
more delightful would it be if the gentle
hostess in her small house gave the rein
to her own refined fancies and charmed
her guests by bit of her own delicate
arrangement at her table, or in the way
she chose to receive and entertain them.
In retreating from the splendor and
the expense of great city, we withdraw
also from its restraints, and are, or ought
10 De, set free from its conventions, at
least to such degree as to render our
intercourse with our neighbors easy and
delightful. Here we should hope to re-
tain that simplicity of life which makes
1t pleasant to exchange visits, and in no
way burden or trouble to entertain a
friend at dinner.
individuality should be very dear to
us; we should count it a thing greatly
to be desired to be frankly and candid
think and feel, and to promote what
to us seems true enjoyment and happi-
ness. Here is our compensation for
the loss of the ennobling sights and
sounds, linked with the grandeur and
strength of cosmopolitan life; we have
what the city cannot give, Il chance per-
sonally to enrich a palmer, simpler, more
truly American form of life, and, even if
persons of strongly-dehned tastes, to en-
large the sphere of pleasure among those
about us.
Imitation, convention, the correct
thing arc cruelty controlling over the
women Of our generation; our curtains
must cross at an exact angle; our front
doors must look precisely alike; the maid
who opens them, though she may have
Just been hurrying through some very
plain necessity Of life elsewhere, must
wear elaborate aprons, which she has no
time to iron properly, and be close copy
of her who appertains to city estab-
lishment, where she relieves the footman
or luxurious man servant in his hours
Of rest.
The clever lawyer returning weary
and thought-tired from hard fought
battle i'll the courts would find a genu-
inc refreshment in a neighborly visit to
his friend around the corner, if he could
be permitted to do so without assuming
evening dress, and adding another half
hours fatigue. to his days labor before
starting. Or if the friend might sit be-
side him and share his ordinary meal,
appetite might come with genial chat,
but if having a friend to dinner means
laborious preparation, increased expendi-
ture, long sitting in a hot dining room
and general departure from the things
which make for rest, the world-worn man
will continue after our largely prevalent
custom to eat hastily, in a monotonously-
for him, and nod over his cigar when the
meal is finished.
1t would seem almost a certain result
of the liberty held out by the situation
that each householder should contrive to
make his or her house express himself or
herself, and that it's order within should
tit personal needs, as garment con-
forms to individual lines.
Why must all the children be dressed
alike! Why must all the veranda chairs
and cushions take one hue? Why must
the very type in which your name is
printed on your visiting card be changed
from script to Roman letters, before you
f a;s happy about leaving one at a
That you should see and hear and
taste variety under your friends roof is
to give multiplication of enjoyments to
each of the senses involved, and make
of every social gathering and encounter
a refreshment.
Combination is a very different thing
from imitation; let us be as truly and in-
dlvidually ourselves as we can, without
offending those conventions which are
guardians both of propriety and conduct;
those helpful boundary lines which keep
us from being eccentric; and let us fos
ter whatever is for the general good;
enticing the men in the community to
join in and like social gatherings.
The detection of the masculine element
from general social intercourse is a
marked modern feature of suburban life,
but. without it I think it goes without
saying that there can be no really enjoy
able, helpful contact or mental inter-
change.
Women must find way by which their
houses are made magnetic, through open
hospitality and cordial welcome, and
cease to think that true elegance is fos-
tered by requiring city forms, or that the
diality, simplicity and that uttermost at.
tainment of perfect courtesy, forgetful.-
ness of self, must reign wherever men re-
joice to meet.
We owe it to one another to live in
small circles, that we contribute to the
life and advancement Of those about u.s.
That house is 4 hindrance to the growth