The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-06-12


Of young ladies', when tho season ar.
rives for keeping the boys in hot wa
ter about them. they manage to find
life pretty comfortable thank you. or
course II they should miss big cir.
Gus, that would be tragedy, but
mighty few Of them but what don't
see II. or course n girl that Is trail
ing along about ~ or IA years old, Ia
sort OF slde-tracked, as It were. but
when she gets to 10 and on to the
sweet &c" period, look out for her.
She is coming fast, and II will not DO
any time at all when she will be rid.
ing around in red wheeled buggy
with some boy, with her hair flying
and her cheeks US red as n winter ap-
pie. and she will be getting yalen.
tines. and going to tlshfrys, and at
tending camp meetings, and seeing
the circus, AMI going on Saturday aft.
ernoons to the band concert in town,
and eating ice cream and drinking ice
cream soda, and playing the organ
Sunday nights, and attending the
dances, and being at the "boXsocials,"
and all the other social doings
She is vastly interested in ribbons
and side.combs and hats and dresses
and gloves ard becoming shoes, and
candy and perfumcry and fellows. and
all that sCrt OF thiCg And when some
fellow gets TO be 81 and goes In and
-,
the paper from "Our Libertyvile Cor.
respondent" about her Rud this fellow
getting married, well you can wager
that old Uncle Discomfort will not
reach her for awhile yet. But no viii
get her. all right. in time. You re-
member about Eve, don't you? Moth
ing to do in Eden week In and week
out, and yet Eve had TO 10 out and
swing on tho gate with the blue
racer just because things got monot-
onous.
For our own individual sources OF
discomfort in the country, they were
subtle and rather more in the way OF
an intangible desire to be nearer the
fame OF the candle Of civilization. II a
particularly nnc play was on at the
thcators We used 10 attend. we missed
It. If there was some picture ut
the art galleries where We once at
tended, and that picture was really
worth seeing. II was something of
disappointment not to be able to como
in and see IT. Two hundred miles or
so Is quite a distance from tho mad
dening crowds ignoble strife" and
car fare was something OF an item,
too, The daily paper from the city.
which reached us the same day of It's
appearance. recorded some things
which we missed and many things
which we were glad TO escape. But
the music, the theaters, the pictures,
the old book stores, the best OF what
the city afforded. we missed that OF
course One cannot have ones rural
cake and eat the cake OF urban bak.
ing at the same time; at least, not
from a distance Of 200 miles
And then. too. there we're a few peo-
pie with whom we would have liked
to cross palms with occasionally from
the city we had left. We missed these
fellows.
And gradually, after all our de-
light In the wild and untrammeled
scenery about us, the changing glories
OF the seasons, the really idylliC
charm OF much OF the life that we
to us that there were places where al!
this could be had in the same degree
we were enjoying II and at the same
time be near to the cities for US 10
run In whenever we wished to see
or hear what was so essential TO oar
city.sharpened tastes and fancIcs.
or course, the hunting and fsbing
which | had 80 far away from the
city could not be duplicated close to
any western city. ] could not expect
to shoot ducks across the fence from
my door.yard, or flush quail from my
garden, jack.snipe could not be ex-
pected to come into the fields Just
across the way, nor squirrels to play
auOuN III Hulilbtlo al hlOhuh Us II
was evident that II we made a change
in our plans and left our present To-
cation to settle down in the country
near some city. | would have to hang
up the fiddle and bow SO far as hunt
ing and fishing was concerned, at
least to a great extent.
The mere fact OF not seeing the
best acting, or the best pictures, or
in not hearing the best music. was
not so essential deprivation as the
tantalizing fact that we were whore
II was almost impossible to get In for
that purpose. II We had been near
enough to run In by taking an hour to
going ant the same time for return
ing. we would have felt that we could
come or so as we chose. But 10 feel
that something really worth ones
while, from an intellectual standpoint.
is on the tapis, and that you are let
out" from enjoying 1t whether or no,
that is the sting that battles conscious
ness, the worm that never dies. Quite
possibly, II we had been in the city,
we should have neglected to go TO a
number OF these events; quite prob
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