The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-20
Of to the Country
But 1t Was Not as Pleasant
as Citizen Expected

ouO-Ddtu OAS HOIHIuS q week OF more
ago and noticed that there was the
/ balminess Of the gentle springtime on
the air that fioated in through the bed
room window, he shifted twice in sue
! cession and thought things He went
to the front window and sized up the
/ trees and watched a squad of birds
putting up a nest under the rain spout
ing on the house next door.
: BY the time Mrs. Citizen had the
toast buttered and the stop watch
pulled on the eggs, Citizen, morning
paper in hand, came back to
the dining room after his ma
tutional ration, Ohistling with the
air of man who has come to deci-
sion about something or other.
Well" remarked Citizen. as he
reached across the table for the sugar
bowl. Il s'pose we can be all packed
and out of here by day after to-mor-
row without any trouble-might even
make it tomorrow
Mrs. Citizen stopped punching at
the holes in the salt cellar with her
fork and looked up with a perplexed
stare. And where are we going?'
she inqired, curiously.
Where are we going?" repeated
Citizen. Yes, where are we going?
HUH I suppose now that summer is
here Wen run down to Florida to
spend month or so. Either there or
take rooms at some river hotel in Gin
cinnati for the heated term Where
are we goingi Good, sensible. peril
nent question that. Well, just by way
of supplying some brand new informa-
ton to you, l might say that we own
a little cottage out in the country not
far from the shore of Lake Erie-this
large body Of fresh water to the north
of us, y'knOw. And III refresh your
memory fUrther-we've been spending
our summers out there now for the
last six years.
"Of course it never occurred to you"
continued Citizen. that we would be
going out there again this summer
wasn't to be expected that you would
figure that out But we are And what
l want to get at now is how long it'll
take you to get your la-zer-ee and
other buds gathered together so we
en- get out there just as soon as pos
sible. If you cant pack EN- up in
the next day or so yourself better
hire somebody to come in and do it,
because I'm getting an awful hankering
for the country thing myself The
ALMIGHTY Davor intended rospIyiDd 70
live in a city with this kind of wealth
er going on"
But isn't it a little early to be
going to the country" suggested
Mrs. Citizen interrogatively. Aren't
you afraid it might be a little
too cold?"
Citizen bestowed a half plying
glance upon her before he replied. OF
course" says he, there's nc such
thing as fires out in the country. Very
poor, l suppose. to sit in front of a
nice big wood fire in an open CRATE if
it happens to get little cold some
evening You'd rather sit by a steam
radiator, hey? l wouldn't doubt it
Well you can stay in town and
breathe the smoke and SCOT if you
want TO. but I'm serving notice on you
that I'm going out where the fresh
air comes from and I'm going pretty
quick. too"
Mrs. Citizen didn't say much to all
this, because she had learned to go
ahead and MUNICH at what was on her
plate without listening to the end of
the dialogue. Anyway, when her atten-
ton was called to it. the country did
sound rather inviting So she hustled
around the fat for the next day or
two getting packed, and by the end
of the week the Citizens had mOsied
out to their summer cottage.
The air was right skittish that first
night, and the firewood didn't burn
just smoked Citizen looked almost IN
happy during the interim between get
ting part of his clothes OFF and getting
the rest of them off and climbing into
bed. But he was optimistic. This
weather won't. last" ne declared.
The next morning he washed his
face by drawing two fingers of each /
nanQ rapidly over Ine Cneek DOneS, F
while his legs vibrated like the strings
on a harp. That night he sat along
side of a discouraged looking lamp
with his light oVercoat around him
trying to read a new magazine and
of morris chairs and 80
electroliers and steam
heat and other things at that moment
contained in his fiat back in town.
In the morning Citizen frowned as
he rubbed his hand over his chin and
found that he could no longer post
pone moving his facial foliage He
his cute little safety razor
and set to work. The water
was cOld-O, so coldl
Right at this juncture," says Git
tenn, turning around and glaring at his
wife, I'm going to remark that I've
had just about enough of this Back
home there's hot water in the bath
water at that. And
here I am out here in cold storage
trying to shave when I'd have a bet
ter chance 10 break my head off in the
form of icicles. What was your game