The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-16
A TRAMP DISCOVERS A FARM
CAMP.
Girls Clad Like Rosalind in the Forest
Move q Plano In Preparation for
the sunday Hymns Jerseyltes Love.

Vfis tad Like itOsal1n0 IN the fOrest
Move q Plano In Preparation for
the Sunday Hymns Jerseyites Love
To THE EpiTon OF THE SuN-Str: The
tramp Is sometimes domesticated. To
make n success Of the experiment is
much like a wife's task in educating a
husband: he must be caught young
when his muscles are supple. before his
bones are set. To bring an old tramp
under the spell OF a roof Is a Sisyphean
job.
When settled temporarily In New
Jersey on the confines Of a fashionable
town I expected TO stay indoors for q
while. But the mere contlguity of the
conventional lifs made me restless.
was really afraid that would slip a
| cog and be arrested for speeding a tin
Lizzy. SO I took to the open road
again to get the toxic OF quality out
of my blood. And I made a discovery.
Out on a Union county highway at a
point overlooking the pleasant reaches
Of valley. and with blue perspective
OF hills. saw q sign: Union County
| rbrm camp.
To the general run OF tramps the
mere dream Of q farm suggests labor,
and Weary William will start from the
! soundest slumber and take precipitate
| flight.
I, however, was wide awake when ]
went UP the long and winding road
that led from the highway to q farm
house. II might. ! argued as I started
| in from the road. furnish some unusual
experience.
A tramp-the ordinary kind--errs
when he reckons that all farmers are
inhospitable. for. he must recollert. to-
day there are farmerettes who are
| fsrners-an UNEMPLOYED and unex-
plotted field for q resourceful tramp
When / got to the top OF the hill
| found an ancient domicile big enough
for a hotel. But 1t wasn't a hotel OF
, the ordinary summer vacation kind.
could see that, for there were no easy
chairs on the piasxas with idllng chaps
In fannels and chic girls in middies
Instead there was an empty porch. For
tennis court there was a stand OF
| buckwheat and a vegetable garden
quite appropriate appendices to a farm.
house. When I got over the brow OF
tho hill a bevy Of girls spied mo and
there went up a tuneful chorus:
"a man! What shall we do with
him."
| I went up TO them hat in hand--it
Is discreet to be polite, they won't lei
you be gallant-to a couple OF doser
nut brown farmerettes with suant
muscles.
Anything you WISH" said suomis.
sively, for I was conscious that the day
Of the lordly man was passing.
"'well. we're moving a plano. -Four
men said It couldn't be done; but well
show them"
The last four words came IN chorus
like college refrain.
what are you going to do with the
piano, have a dancer" I asked limo
Gently. forgetting the inappropriatenesi
OF time.
A staid one--the generalissimo-
looked at me frigidly.
mo: play hymns. We don't dance
on Sunday"
! She spoke with virtuous preciseneos
Then she struggled to remove the boil
| that held tho two plates OF a dool
hinge in place.
| Let US sec X we can't get II through
the doorway without taking the dool
on" suggested. I threw the door back
to the limit we got it through. Their
a peach-Jersey grown and deliciousl,
ripe-with blue eyes and vivacious man.
ner struck the keynote for refrain
with:
Nothing like having a man around
Wei was honored to be included ir
the company of those girls--had TO take
| that piano from a wing to tho MAR
building-down one night Of steps from
one piazza, across a stretch OF gravelled
pathway, up flight Of steps to an
other piazza and into room with ar
.open fireplace in which a cheerful firt
OF wood logs was burning--last Sunday
was raw and wet.
J Those farmerettes. hindered by one
man. lifted that piano as IL 1t were g
bundle of withes. When they finally
landed It in front OF the cheerful oper
fire the vivacious one gave the cue fol
another deep lunged chorus from q
bunch Of girls who had been expanding
them to the service Of the country ir
hot fields. where there were no TENN:
racquets and no nets:
| Were some piano movers And foul
men said It couldn't be done"'
| Now It isn't my trick to give these
ladies away-they all have proud par
snts that one day will do that to thu
Joy Of some happy men-so won't say
Just where the Union County Farm
Camp is located. I'll let some char
who has a high powered car that hi
can't manage find that out for him
self He'll DO sure to find there some
trim girls dressed like Rosdlind in thu
Forest OF Arden--but without th'
doublet--with a coil of yellow or brown
or auburn hair under chic cap. who
can teach him how. And any ono o.
them will look as good-but no better
in chiffon and lace!
| FINpLAY SAcKETr.
| SUMMIT, ". j., September IL.
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