The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-11-07
.HEsFARM AS A SUMMER RESORT.

THE FARM Asa SUMMER RESORT.
tits at this time of year that many
o person, tired Of city or, town, seeks
the quiet farm retreat where the
spring hen is assassinated before she
becomes a greatgrandmother, where
the fatted pie is butcheredth three times !
a day, and where the egg is slaughtered
while lstill in its infancy.
Many people believe that the farm,
with its droWsy solitude and it's rest !
full atmosphere, its poetic scenery and
homemade bread, its highly successful
sunsets, its lineal sausage and uncon-
ventionalities, its polite butter n its
barn-yard concerts at 2 a. NJ, offers
advantages as a summer retreat that
#:canSbe obtained nowhere else.
There are a great many people who
like the fashionable summer hotel
where everything is cooked in French
and served with a foreign accent by
a courtly and faithful gentleman who
wears a tight dress suit and loves to
bring you your soup with his in
II it. t. There are others who enjoy the
5s5moreSmodest hotel where the ceilings
and scale of prices are lower, and where
the versatile night clerk also acts IN
the capacityjo Of head waiter and cham
bermaid. And there are still others
who prefer the farm as their summer
retreat.
That the 1attergclass is, perhaps, h
smallestsof the three is hard to under
stand, sforEWhat could be more delight
full than a summer day in the country
where the breeze blows gently across
meadow and field, where the cows, low
hungrily at the pasture gate, and
where the song andthe langhterof5the
happysrsaper$i is mingled with the hur-
ried and extemporaneous remarks of
the heated plowmanas he yanks a
rail off thefenceSa and beat g stole
al and headstrong horse back q
eSfurroyw !? Fromthe moment when
theaPoland China rooster first crows
atpeep of day down to the long,
5drowsy evening when the hired girl
shoves up to the cabinet organ and
sings q few good old songs that are
soaked with pathos and punctuated
with notes aboutfon inches too high
for her voice, thessummer''s day at the
is filed with pleasure.
il is great treat to get out$in the
mornin Whensthe first pink rays Of thu
ii are hsotsathWartsthe eastern sky
as 8,0oO.O00sof our poets have Originally
and beautifully expressed it, and com
mnne yvithaS40 or50a acres ~ofSnature be
fore breakfast, It is great 10y t,
be aWakenedshortl ermidnight b.
the yell 81 the feeble-nlinded gguine;
nd the c~entralto snort OF the shoat
to get out Whilethe shadows stillpoin
fl westerly direction and sannte
DER dewysdell and mortgaged meadow
to Ill lazily under shelteringg tire
Throughout the livelone day wit
no,tIingto do bnt@think over our pas
life and shake ants ouiof nrsleeye.
A the first warm days Of sprin
when the buckwsheatc cake and the far
mel nndershirtsare laid aside and fame
begins to tnrn to thoughts of shor1
waisted shoes and recreation. b ma
Who loves 10 his family 2
She qutst ruralafastnesses < n
s sta1ionerysi IN aIldandWrisesa pres
IMP imitation to himself ndstads
OFT id he d Ii to his 18th cousi
8 his grandfather side:
Dear Cousin Henry:Although y
have notwritten To 81 since We s
turned from your home Iastssumrae
psverfhsless. we have fhoughtsofye
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