Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11

i wv country for anOtner square
meal said the country store
keeper as the Rambler stopped to rest.
| You've had so much breakfast food and
grape fruit and potted tit-bits, dairy
room lunches Of SKINNED milk and manu-
featured pie and dinners of bouillon and
lettuce salad that you've got lean in the
TANKS since you--Wefes down this way
last,
Then, calling to somebody in the kitch-
en-. the country storekeeper shouted: "Oh.
Mary! set the table and give this city
fellow a couple Of pounds of home-cured
pork. mess of turnip greens. half a
dozen fried eggs, a batch OF hot biscuits
made out of flour that was wheat and
a platter Of butter that was churned out
Of cows milk
This was the line Of talk with which
the country storekeeper greeted the Ram
bier at cross-road in old Prince
Georges. 1t was one of those general
country stores, at the junction OF roads,
with long. well worn porch in front, a
hitching rail for horses and we'll and
water trough. The front and side OF the
store were pasted over with signs adj
vertising stock feed, poultry food, to-
bacco, horse liniment, starch. bluing and
the like. Inside was the mingled frag-
rance of vinegar. harness, ginger snaps.
dry goods, perfumed soap, boots ana
shoes. molasses and kerosene.
I'm always glad to see city man
come into the country. | believe in the
practice of benevolence. Nobody needs
benevolence so much as a city fellow. He
never gets 1t in the city. 1 also believe in
giving education lift and although a
city man is unpromising material am
glad to have him look around in the
country, where, if the city has not alto
gether ruined him and shriveled up his
; brains, he may find something to think
about except moving pictures, base ball
and the spring fashions in neckties and
purple socks.
| Another reason I extend a welcome to
city fellows is that / subscribe 80 cents
a year regularly for missions for the up
lift of the heather, and like to do some
personal work In that line myself. 1t
gives me keen idea of what a tough
job missionary workers are up against.
| If you'd eat more of that kind of grub.
get up i'm the morning and go, to bed at
night cut out cigarettes and read less
fiction about microbes and sanitation You
wouldn't have to have policeman on
! every corner to protect you and you
wouldn't have to have the tailor stuff so
much raw cotton in the shoulders of your
coat. You'd have more chest and less
cheek. You city folks are great people
for charging all your indiscretions and all
the results of your unnatural ways OF
living to flies, mosquitoes and germs. If
you lived right you wouldn't have to be
always talking about sanitation and
prophylaxis and therapy and goodness
knows what not.
How do you people expect to live
to ripe old age when you go to the
theater every night, sit up until 10 O'Clock,
hang around pool parlors. smoke ciga-
rettes, sit in an Office several hours
every day, ride on the street cars every
time you want to go a mile or so. sleep
with the windows up and with the night
, air pouring into your room. and then per-
| haps take a bath in the morning
Some of you city fellows boast, ac-
| tually boast, of taking cold plunge
every morning. OF course, most Of you
are fbbing about 1t. but it proves the
shamelessness OF city people that they
/ are willing to admit such a condition as
| would require bath every day. A good
| aEi-round wash every Saturday night, In
mally clean man needs When q man
washes oftener than this he makes him.
self an object OF suspicion in my eyes.
II used to like to go to Washington
when everybody knew everybody else and
| especially the family living next door,
| when the business man left the store
and went home to dinner, when the
/ street car driver had time to talk with
i the passengers. when the citizens went
/ on picnics and held strawberry and ice
cream festivals. and when II you went
! to see a man on a little matter of bust
ness you didn't have to give your family
\ history and the inside reasons for your
! visit to the head messenger and then &c
/ the chief Office boy. and then to the chiei
clerk and then to the private secretary
| and when at length getting to the mar
| you wanted to do business with. comins
| face to face with such signs GIN his desl
as. This Is My Busy Day. BE Brief,
Cut 1t Short and Talk Only Business,
i while the man you. are trying to dc
husinIss with il opening telegramS, die.