New-York tribune., 1905-08-20

their morning plunge in a wash bowl or q COM
mon tin washpan, for all I know. It's Just as
say; them that puts on the most airs IN the
country has the least in their own homes"
The charge that the summer boarder some
times leaves his manners at home when bs
goes to the country is not altogether unfo1rnded
Everything becomes an object OF ridicule to a
certain class Of summer people, and the sweet
mower OF courtesy" seems never to bloom in
the garden Of their hearts They make fun"
so indiscriminately and with so little tact and
SO little regard for the feelings of others that
they deserve to be charged with having "lo man
ners at all" Every old person they see becomes
a Character a queer Old party in their
estimation and the most ordinary occurrence
becomes "awfully funny to them
Then there are Others" said the old woman
who was sitting in Judgment on the summer
noarder, who are Just nice and pleasant as
they can be They don't expect to find 'bawtAs'
an hnger bowls an meals served in half dozen
courses in the ordinary farmhouse. an they don't
forgit that it is possible for a country bred De-
son to have just much feelin' an refinement
Gs a city bred person. They don't make fun Of
your friends an neighbors nor of the pictures
in your family album nor on your walls. nor q
anything else They don't ask you to wait OF
---- do Il tlGN was IN JIe Hotel ASt0Ty,
Of EN- even amt above maxim their own beds
Them kind amt so bad"
The summer boarder who is disposed to do $,
may hrfHg a great deal of pleasure into the
oftentimes nonotonous and wcarisonle lives or
those who receive them into their homes. One
farmers wife, living far up among the Ve7-
mont hills and rarely seeing beyond them, whfls
an actual city like Boston, or even Springfield
was an unknown world to her voiced sent!-
ment not uncommon to farmers wives when she
said: My summer boarders bring to me tn,
great world to which I cannot go They bring
a happy change into my life, and I am always
glad when they come and sorrv when they 60
even though they add much to my household
duties. They leave magazines and papers am
even books, behind them. and now and then our
rural postman brings me a package Of fresh
papers and magazines from them to show that
they keep me in mind. and once in a While a
letter comes along telling me how much they
my efforts to make them comforts
bic while they were with me"
This woman's summer boarders were mani
festly of the kind that were mot so bad" ani
their manners must have come TO the conn
try with them
The city dweIler actually accustomed to ba tn
rooms and finger bowls and a fresh napkin at
each meal can often find in Gods great and
beautiful out-of-doors in the country enough TO
compensate him for the loss of these Iuxurias
when ne is guest at some old farmhouse in
which he has no right To expect such things II
he cannot he is a misft in the country and should
go elsewhere. The real lover OF nature is glld
TO put behind him all the conventionaIities OF
city life, and his two or three or four weeks on
the hills in some fair green valley are worth
more to him than all the rest of the year The
clear streams or lakes afford him 4 more en-
joyabIe bath than the most luxurious city ba h
room can give him, and the air of the real coGn-
try is not to be duplicated in the most generous
expanse of city park The hill towns of New
England, the seashore resorts, the mountain
hotels, the farmhouses all over the land are
now the mecca of the summer boarder. The
summer vacation is now of the wise pro-
visions for all. and the summer boarder is hav-
ing all too leeung experience OF the joys OF
country life