Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-28
SUMMER VISITORS.


 This is the season of the year when the city folk look about for place in which to spend the summer vacation. We hear the mountains calling us, and the seashore extending us an invita- tion, and then others of us write to our country cousins, and in return for the brief visit they paid us last win ter we announce ourselves ready to sojourn with them indefinitely. These country cousins are rather impressed with our grandeur, and nothing they have is too good for us. The best room is thrown open for our benefit, and sunshine is allowed to pour in on the best brussels carpet and haircloth furniture. The neighbors give tea parties for us, and the wealth of the larder is spread out before us. They serve six o'clock supper, and the menu isn't at all like the meal we have been in the habit of having at that hour i'll the city. They have sauce and bis cult and spice cake and tea, and fill in the odd spaces on the table with plates of cottage cheese and cookies and fresh butter right from the churn that very morning Those of us who are fortunate enough to have this kind of a summer come back to the city re- freshed in body and spirit. The chick tes and the katydids do not make the same sort of music that we find at the summer resorts, but they lull us to sleep rather early in the night, so that we are ready to respond to the cocks crow in the early morning. But the farm wife is up about her work long before We know it is day. She has done days work before sunrise, may be, and even lazy old Sol peeps i'll at the kitchen door at her with a blush of crimson on his guilty face. Simple country living affords great rest for OverWeary nerves, and those of Us who have country cousins had better re joice in the fortunate inheritance, and leave our city latchstring on the out side of the door for them during the winter season, when they come to town to see the sights.
 The etiquette of visiting would fill a book, if it were set down in black and white. A hospitable New York wo- man who entertains good many people during the course of the year tells me there are but a few of her lists of guests who meet the requirements of the guest.
 The model guest is one who comes when she is invited and goes home at the expiration of the time specified %l the invitation. She makes her own bed, keeps order in her room and is ready when the maid announces that the meal is served. I believe, in ad- dition to these eXcellencies, that she brings her own soap and scissors and comb and brush, and that, in case she does not do this, she, at least, on de parture, refrains from appropriating any of the articles mentioned. The model guest busies herself with bit of attractive needlework, which she afterwards presents to the hostess. She makes friends with the dog and cat and she tells stories to the child ren, and admires the family baby and praises the cooking, and never forgets. a little fee to the servants. She never intrudes herself during the hosse working murs.. but settles herself in q snug corner with a book, and has the best kind of a time.' Sometimes she dusts around a little just for exercise and she claims only the privilege or being one of the family. She knows how to express appreciation iii a way that puts spurs in everyone's good en- deayors. and she goes home while everybody is very fond of her and re- gretS her.