1911 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1081 
Town and Country Comparisons. 
I took the Little One to town the 
other day, and if the trip benefited her 
as much as it did me, I am glad that 
I did take her. I never spend a day 
in town that I am not glad there is 
a home for me in the country. The 
Little One’s actions and comments were 
quite amusing. She ambled along, quite 
unconscious that it was ever necessary 
to step quickly or carefully to avoid col¬ 
lision. She thought she was surely 
safe if she kept on the “walkin’ ” and 
did not venture alone on the„ “trottin’.” 
It was a great delight to find Old 
Santa upon a pedestal quite befitting 
(Garfield’s monument), and a peanut 
roaster was to her a “baby” thrashing 
machine. The funniest thing of all was 
the number and variety of horses, al¬ 
though the sight of a bob-tailed horse 
quite brought tears to her eyes, for, she 
questioned, “Now what he goin’ do ’bout 
switchin’ flies?” 
When the shopping was done and we 
wandered away from the business sec¬ 
tion, she gave a grateful sigh and said 
to herself, “It’s so nice and quiet here.” 
My trips to the city do not occur very 
frequently and I try to manage to make 
one call each time upon old friends. 
This time we went to see the doctor’s 
wife. The doctor is a specialist of 
some renown, now, and the establish¬ 
ment which is their home has increased 
in size and complexity as his success 
has warranted. I hesitated to stop 
only for an hour, for I have some idea 
of the demands upon her time, but I 
ventured, and her welcome was just 
as cheery as ever. She assured me 
that I had chosen a most suitable day, 
as she was really at leisure. 
Leisure? It seemed to me what I 
had called my cares were nothing com¬ 
pared to the perplexities this little 
woman has to face. She is well edu¬ 
cated and strong, and seems quite un¬ 
able to deny herself to any movement 
that interests her. She is actively in¬ 
terested in the movement for child 
welfare, makes and writes addresses on 
the subject, attends meetings and con¬ 
ventions, but she admitted that she was 
always too tired to undress her children 
at night. 
“You see those wrinkles,” she said. 
“That is the servant question. We are 
obliged to keep four now, and Doctor 
feels the expense, too. But it does not 
pay for me to economize on that line, 
for then I am always so miserably 
overworked that the whole household 
is affected.. 
“For,” she continued, “you know 
housework is to me a double tax. It 
is not alone the physical effect of hard 
work, but I labor under a rebellious 
state of mind as well.” Poor woman, 
I know what that means; it is simply 
inexperience, with consequent poor re¬ 
sults. 
Then she took me over her house. 
I saw the gas range, electric cleaner, 
electric irons, and all the devices to 
make work easier for the servants. As 
we passed through the dining room, 
with its polished mahogany and fine 
china, she turned and said, as if she 
were speaking to her old life: “But 
th ~e is not the comfort here that you 
have in the morning, with Little Sister 
baking and bringing in the hot cakes, 
and father nearly always present.” 
Then she went on: “I undertook to 
give Dot some cooking lessons, but it 
was a failure. The cook showed very 
plainly her irritation at our intrusion 
and afterward told the clrld that no 
‘lady’ bothered in the kitchen. 
“Then, there’s the Boy. He is old 
enough to work and learn that life is 
a bundle of responsibilities, but there 
is nothing suitable for him to do.” I 
do not think she would have said all 
this to others in her circle of friends, 
but I am a relic of the old days, when 
they lived in rooms and ate their meals 
from an ordinary kitchen table. Then, 
it seemed that I had found her in a 
self-critical frame of mind. 
She read me a letter from the pro¬ 
fessor’s wife in my own village, in 
which the delightful souls in our com¬ 
munity were spoken of as “so contented 
with everything, thinking the natural 
beauty which surrounds them sufficient 
excuse for their complaisance, as if 
Nature itself were of their own mak¬ 
ing. And so few of them in any de¬ 
gree understand the workings of Na¬ 
ture.” Ah, my friend, we may not 
have the time nor the inclination for 
note-taking or research, but my sun- 
bonneted girl and overalled boy are 
daily learning of life and eternity. At 
work, they learn of the moral and ma¬ 
terial effect of system and industry; at 
rest, they learn to love the twilight, 
the stillness and the hearthstone. From 
the dumb animals they learn patience 
and endurance; of the song-birds, hope 
and cheer. And in the seed-time and 
harvest are the lessons of life unfolded. 
Many of the graces acquired by more 
leisure may be lacking, but we try daily 
to acquire graciousness of heart; and 
while we may not know of their species 
or retreats, we are indeed grateful to 
the little warblers who sing their 
choicest anthems at our very doors. 
I am glad that there are so many 
women in the world fitted for a broader 
work than mine, women who have busi¬ 
ness faculty, women who may assist in 
social betterment, and in the cause of 
science. But I say it does me good to 
go to town. I find that I am not the 
only busy woman or tired woman, or 
perplexed woman in the world, and so 
many have fewer compensations than I. 
The big heater in the old living-room 
looks mighty cheerful compared to iron 
pipes, and many tilings might be a great 
deal worse. So I put the Little One in 
her bed, and turn to the pile of ac¬ 
cumulated dishes with a new zest, and 1 
decide that while the performance of 
my duties may be work, I shall not call 
it toil, and it may be still better to call 
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mixture into the buttered shells, shake 
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the top of each. Put the shells on a 
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