Milford chronicle., 1908-10-02
A DAY IN DELAWARE,

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Delaware is not a big State ex.
cept for Rhode Island it would be
the smallest in the Union. What
1t lacks i'll size. However, it makes
up in other ways.
It's history is creditable. It has
been first in many things and still
IS first in some. The first European
settlement in the valley of the Della
ware was made within its borders.
The first school especially for girls
IN America was established in Del
aware, there is some reason to be-
heve and the annalist Watson tells
us that as early as the latter part of.
the seventeenth century. $50 much
had the little Lewiston at our south
ern cape the prominence in female
tuition that the deputy governor
OF Pennsylvania sent his Younger
daughters there to finish their edu- !
cation,
Delaware was first among the /
states to ratify the national constitu-
ton, to make the manufacture of
gunPowder of national significance
and to give to the peach that ex-
quisite flavor which today enables
1t to dispute the claim ofthe straw
berry to be the fruit especially in
favor both with God and man.
The Delaware type is as distinct
i've as the Massachusetts or Virginia 1
type. Those who know it recog- I
nize 1t anywhere. The true Della t
Tarean has the same hatred of pre- a
tence which the New Highlander {
has the same spontaneous friendli- d
ness which you find in the Virgin Fl
ian. What he thinks he says, and L
he IS no respecter of persons. But
he IS cOnsiderate. He is all SYM e.
pathy if needed, and the sickness II
Or bereavement of one village home W
S the sickness or bereavement Of pi
very home in the community. ia
again and again in my boyhood tn
lave seen illustrated in a Della m
ware village the descriptive word as
bout DrumtOchtv SN
There 5 only one heart in Drum in
ochty, and it's sore. II
The Delawarean has, also, a lai
ense ofhumor For the intricacies ha
subtle wit he has no liking. The pc
Ories which he tells are easy to lar
Understand and to remember. They
re plain and matter-of fact, and sol
rye all the purposes of every Sta
iendly circle Best of all, the the
knows when the Joke I'm
on him. A native of Delaware sta
no married a New England of
oman was fond Of chatting his the
te about the Yankees liking for ito
even for breakfast. One ser1
'rning at breakfast in a Boston incl
te, he remarked to his wife c
here is your New Highlander pen
ing pie for breakfast. When croI
e minutes later the pie-eater i'll t
Olled across the cafe to their of
lie, and introduced himself as a Ions
g-lost cousin of the husband of t
like him brought up in Della CROP
re, the Judge admitted that gain
n such well-worn Joke as his ST
one day prove a boomerang pass
lie IS much given to hospital tire,
y There can be nowhere in goo
world if l may Judge from dred
ariences on two continents. battl
e sincere entertaining than YOU and
in Delaware. Hospitality there rich
irly Oriental and in its COM call
mess. Your host and hostess Ov
but one thing Of the coming blanc
IS, that he accept the best the Il
have to give, stay longer than Civil
AIMED to stay, come again as on tn
as possible and stay a little quain
II. nishe:
ere surely can be no region, coliee
or small, where the parting MiC
may be more certain that only to Do
things will be said about him State
he has gone. There is a sort While
of loyalty to the by sol
ry as well as personality of fourth
with whom the Delawareaq unlike
sted salt. The
awareans are simple in their streets
and frugal in their habits. quite n