New-York tribune., 1903-07-19
A SIMPLE SIMMER

There is a type of summer life. fast disap-
pearing, which is purely American and is quite
without parallel on the other side, namely. that
OF people Of culture position and means eecting
to spend a simple summer as boarders in a sea
side or mountain farmhouse, where fare and SER
vice are Of the crudest the only essentials being
plenty of the former and clean. roony quarters
twenty or thirty years ago this a general
custom Cottage life, as it was called was then
comparatively unknown az the smaller resorts
where the hotels and boarding houses held all of
the visitors, so that it wonder that those
who disliked crowds and enforced intimacy should
select for their families out of the way
farmhouse, where the accommod alton, primitive
t2oASh II might be, insured a comparative amount
rd, nI prlyacys But II was very queer SAID the
Llsuess OF a charmfngly artistic cottage 1T \.
fif4een % naTe spent our summers = here for
farmbonea TI we poardeq IT d. oe "I1aT i7
come do frnm ng oso is m and e2 WIn5e 1
and take possession of the clean, bare bedrooms
room, with its hard chairs and coarsely set table,
all clean. of course. but primitive! Mrs. White
gave UP an our habits and adapted ourselves 20
@ ner not plehtIuI midday dinner soLaewnat scaaty
even now. The White Firls-two red haired dam
conversation4waited on us at table and did our
rooms and would come out and join US on the
Il remember Sally 4. who had had a season in
one sumner me and II oiTir s q of the WINES and
her consternation on receiving note from young
country house and rashly invited 10 visit her
when ne came TO Boston. saying ne was about TO
make the tour of America and proposed coming
to see her. Let him come advised when she
to in great perpleXity asking what she
could do 'Englishmen Of rank are always simple
[ daresay he will enjoy the experience hugely
and be your friend for Ife'-a prophecy which
turned out truer than thought as Sally is now
Lady NJ. But that all came off later at that time
it only the question OF an announcement visit
Sally's mother, who was always wondering plala,
lively every summer how we endured II. announced
that her nerves could not stand the ordeal of re-
ceiving strange Englshman at the Whites and
that she should remain in her room during his
weeks end visit. The rest Of us, however. en-
joyed the of the situation, and as for Sally,
she behaved charmingIy. Well he came, and it
all went off splendidly. You see, have one
great advantage in America-there is no sense OF
anachronism in anything American may do 10
the English mind. We are entirely without prece-
dent far they concerned, and may DO
just what we choose, Lord NJ appeared to md md
way of living perfectly natural, enjoyed with
boyfsh appetite Mrs Whites pies pork and beans
and sweet corn made friends with the Misses
White, who admired him excessively. and talked
intelligent!y about English crops and farming to
Farmer White, who admitted he had good stuff in
him. although he a lord; in short, the visit
a success and Mrs. B. had to admit after he
left that it would have been a great pity to put
him off account of the Whites menage, par
tcularly she had the satisfaction OF giving hlIn
a perfectly we'll conducted cCnversa tional dinner
party at her house in BeacOn-st. the next winter