The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-02
THE SUMMER BoARDER.
Depends ons the Individual How Joys
 of Country Life Are Taken.

The exodus from the city to the coun- try and to the seashore reacheS hi~'1 tide in August, and the summer board CT and summer people, in general are aboard in the land. They are putting a gfireat deal of money into circulation in the rural and seashore districts, and yet they are not regarded as an unmixed blessing in some localities Indeed, the writer has heard them characterized as ''them summer trash by at least one scornful old woman, who added that she dreaded to see them and their "dratted auttymobiles" invading the neighborhood in which she lives. She was generous enough j to, admit that some of them were not ESQ bad and summed up the whole matter by add ing: AE&
 "It depends altogethsg on who you git" .., ,,,a. tsta ,.t...r......,. ...,, One can readily understand that the stlfYflner boarder's capacity for being
 pleasant" his willingness to adapt to his environment without bein "fussy." and his regard for courtesy are all to be considered when, summing up his desirabihty as boarder The, old woman was right. It does depend on whom you "git" If the rural boarding | house keeper is to derive any pleasure in keeping summer boarders.
 There's turrible lot, O diff'rence in summer boarders,' said this rural | oracle. If some of them ever had any manners they leave them at home when | they come to the country. It rifles me so to hear them maxim fun of evry- thing they see and hear In the country, an the best you can do for them ain't | rloways good enough nor up to what they are accustomed to in their own homes. An then that has the least in ] their own homes are the ones that put on the most when they come to the country, an some O the things they complain they can't get accustomed to going without fin the country are things they never had in their own homes. I know that my sons folks had 8 couple boardin' with them last sum- mer, an they fussed all the time be- cause there want any 'bwath' in the Ihouse. an both of them talked about how much they missed their morning plunge an they didn't see how on earth us country folks ever got along without 'bwath tub an we happened to find out afterward that they lived in three little tucked up rooms in the city an that they didn't have any 'bwath of their own, an they must have taken their morning plunge in a wash bowl or a common tin washpan, for all know. It's just as I say; them that puts on the most airs in the coun- try has the least in their own homes.'
 The charge that the summer boarder sometimes leaves his manners" at home when he goes to the country is lnot altogether unfounded. Everything becames an object of ridicule to a cer- tain class of summer people, and the sweet flower 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 re- gard for the feelings of others that they deserve to be charged with having mo manners at all" Every old person they see becomes 6 character or a "queer old party" in their estimation, and the most ordinary occurrence be- comes lawfully funny to them.
 "Then there are others" said the old woman who was sitting in Judgment on the summer boarder, "who are just as nice and pleasant as they can be. They don't expect to find 'bwaths' an finger bowls an meals served in half tloz- en courses in the or'nary farmhouse. an they don't forgit that it is possible for a country bred person to city bred person. They don't make fun of your friends an neighbors, nor of the pic- lures in your family album, nor ask you to wait on 'em as If they was in the Hotel Astory, an some of 'em even ain't above maxim their own beds. Them kind ain't so bad. ,
 The summer boarder who is disposed to do so may bring a great deal of Ipleasure into the oftentimes monoton- ous and wearisome lives of those who receive them into their homes. One farmers wife, living far up among the Vermont hills and rarely seeing beyond them, while an actual city like Boston, or even Springfield, was an unknown world to her, voiced a sentiment not uncommon to farmers wives when she lsafd: My summer boarders bring to me the great world to which I cannot go. They bring a happy change into
 my life, and I am always glad when Ithey come and sorry when they go, Aeyen though they add much to my