Show from the new york commercial advertiser I 1 COUNTRY COUSINS love of kindred is a passion in my breast there la is not a drop of inhospitable bitable blood in her veins when my relations or her s come from the country to visit us u she sets about abou their entertainment with a heart for the work ina in a word she devo devotes tes herself to their comfort and happiness with an alacrity so an successful that judging from the prolonged stay some home of them make with us I 1 have suspected that they find pleasanter plea santer rooms nicer beds bedia better provender and at least one ona warmer heart t than han they do under their own roofs sometimes when an uncle joe or a louisa and a sixteenth cousin at that with her three children has made us a visit of some two or three weeks duration and the proposed period of their stay with us has come to an end I 1 have thought it would be just as well to let them slide gracefully off home begging them of course to come very s soon 0 on a again gain and to be sure and not hurr hurry y off so the next time i this in my opinion would be desirable because e aside from the expenses incidental to ta ane entertainment of BO much company L t have generally found that ten days or a fortnight of time affords ample opportunity to exhaust all the lite ordinary topics topic of conversation your friends have told you all that they know and you have told them all that you know and probably a good deal more consequently the long evenings hang heavily and halt the time you hardly know what to talk about f such consia considerations rations hf however wever or indeed any others as reasons why our guests may be permitted to depart never enter my cifes mind on the contrary if she can persuade cousin louisa with her three children if she has ten of them it would make no difference ftp 0 siy with t ua another week she he is as happy as roost most folks are when their country visitors are all nicely packed up and nd ticketed ford for home As she would run to tell me the oad glad tidings I 1 oh what do you think my dear I 1 have per persuaded cousin louisn louisa and aunt boily to stay another week with us her eyes would gli glisten and andade ahe would manifest all ali the glee that I 1 have known keown i thoughtless inconsiderate children to show under the same circumstances I 1 I 1 for several years after we were married she W would now and then express the wish that we were rich knowing her unselfish and benevolent nature I 1 was at first surprised at this apparent dissatisfaction with the allotments of providence vi especially as we wre wore surrounded with many comforts so one day I 1 asked her bif if she thought it was I 1 right to indulge such wishes when n multitudes who were equally deserving and more so than ourselves were not nea nearly aly sa so well OV off t i s I 1 why huab husband a nd how you mistake m met she r replied what 1 want t money for is to i s make others happy particularly our own dear relations now suppose you had a great fortune left you yon what do you think I 1 should like you to with it well first I 1 should want you to build a large double house in some pleasant street et up town mind it should be a double houge house housewirth with rooms each side of tle the hall and three s tories stories high then I 1 should wani want it handsomely furnished from the on sub b cellar to the garret and when the various conveniences were argart arranged ged arid and I 1 e everything very thing in prime i odie wish to td 9 give ive a pressing api invitation itsik to to idl iiii your country relations and ana amiee 1 be to come om and d make u us s a good 1 9 1 biN Vt ij I 1 nV Chat be de 1 ig i ali tg mim 1 hebeart hei eart warming I 1 40 L ae aroi e 9 x w duh deaf they all love to come nud see gee us and aad wlben we had lota 1018 im ay iy no hurry to get pr there in w your jour cousin cousin now mrs mra a a avi widow deiv with fd r children to Q care for I 1 should I 1 not much mi rid hagl aien tiem to stay with us all the life time it would ma make aci teem fiem such a nice comfortable home you khow that is if we ive had the house I 1 W am 11 speaking of then ihen mi my poor dear uncle tobias with that dreadful rheu mitiz matiz as he calls it 1 I should so like to have him constantly with us in order that I 1 could look after him and comfort him when he gets low spirited thus mrs lovel loel my spout spouse e rattled on and I 1 confess that I 1 found it difficult to co conceal aceal the admiration I 1 felt for her kind feind hearte adne m but of 0 I 1 course course I 1 J knew it would never answer for us ua lo 10 6 think anke on this subject unless I 1 was willing I 1 to be eaten out of house and home hoine so assuming some home sharpness of tone I 1 remarked I 1 truly I 1 I 1 you have an exuberant fey fancy mrs lovel suppose noisy nair I 1 had bad all this forture it I 1 speak of do you think I 1 should co consent antio to turn tiara my house into a hotel I 1 too wound wish to extend all proper hospitality to our friends but sometimes I 1 confess I 1 loveto love to be alone J set some value on privacy and quiet seclusion t As to thel widow i believe she is dis bantly connected with mi my mother ny by mar marriage something like hr her third or fourth cousins cousan w wife ej wid aid I 1 suspect yo you 1 u could more readily rea dily prove relationship tion kion ship with your dear uncle tobias by the way e of f old od father adam than by any other process but you are equal to the southern negroes in unc undoing leing abunting aun ting and cou our distant I 1 ions and I 1 tell you wife it costs something to feed such a host of folks as you ar are e constantly coaxing to visit us ah dont talk so dear husband I 1 know you are only in fun you would feel as bad as I 1 should it you found our good old uncles and junnies aunties were becoming so shy of us what can be more pleasant than to enjoy their visits with us as they do and suppose some of them are not very near relations we must try and make them feel near and seem near to us and they should live as near to 10 us as as possible eel especially ally if they happen to be in indigent circumstances I 1 gave her up as incorrigible when the first faint whispering of crystal palace pleasantly tingled the ears of this coif community it muttered thunder in mine my prophetic soul foresaw the irruptive hordes fram fearn the north and from the south from the east and from the west which like the frogs of egypt would overwhelm us and 4 all our 49 houses uses I 1 pictured to my iny mind with dismay the p prospective ros active increase of my family by an additional dozen or score of f country friends to board and to lodge I 1 well remember the perturbation of spirit with which from i day to day in looking over the retail price current of provisions I 1 noticed the gradual tendency upwards well knowing that the maximum would not be reached until the palace had received its finishing stroke and all the world and his wife had arrived in town to take a look those dismal forebodings have been more than verified but I 1 will not anticipate when it ishad had become fully established that we wre wore to have a crystal palace that it would be filled with elegant productions of the arts and that tha t our whole general country cousins and other relatives were expected to come and take a mi nute inspection then it was my sli spouse ouse on hos bitable thoughts intent constituted herself and our hired girl patsey a committee of two to devise ways ways and means my cifes influence over patsey was huoh that in the matter tion for kindred they had become birdi birds ofa of a feather when th j p thirty indulge te melting a decease thir cousin by the s 0 lr stepson step son 4 t L wa sigh geo oserthe the decol recollections lee of some saihe precious scrape grace of a ti tim m who wig was a cousin to the gentleman that married lier her aunt bridgets sister in laws second daughter at tipperary land and macam says patsey dont that make tim and me oune cousins troth he was a brave lad ad it dome do me soule good to have tim come to mariky Mer iky with such sympathy anu and such valuable aid na Pat faass willing heart and brawny arm aria could give I 1 believe the first excavating shovel full of earth was thrown up to make room for the foundation of the palace before i a commence ment had been made in my do of a series series of alterations and arrangements of which I 1 had no idea the house was susceptible it is here proper to state that my wife and myself clara and sam my two children patsey the girl and a small black boy very black tor to run tau of errands whose name also alo happens to be san sam and whom for distinctions sake I 1 we call white sam are the several members of our household I 1 six in all our house is a modern two story brick one well calculated for the accommodation of ourselves and a few select relatives arid and friends but if col bellum should appear nt at our door some p pleasant lea ant afternoon and could demonstrate to my wife that all his men were w ere some kith and kin to us she would find room it in our little box to give every mothers son of them a tolerable nights lodging aye a good supper to boot for many ma y weeks previous to the influx of stra strangers agers to the great exhibition were the ardent thoughts and busy hands of mrs lovell employed in making preparations for her expected guests new sheets new table cloths claths new pillow cases and new towels were made by the dozen carpenters were employed in the attic to make the four bedrooms into eight the back room of the second story was most ingeniously converted into three pretty fair sleeping apartments by the aid of fancy screens the work of my cifes own hands the i lay lar r I 1 had to 10 execute would many a time have excited my had they not come so near emptying my pockets one morning it would be no now mr lovell dont nt forget to send u up p that half dozen new wash hand stands I 1 another morning the request was to bring up a dozen pairs of mens slippers low priced I 1 and large size 9 slippers I 1 exclaimed what in the name of C crispin fI do you want to do with slippers why husband you know very well that country gentleman bring jio nothing thing with them but their thick heavy boots and it will be so ignate gra te ful fill bothem to them irk in the evenin evening g after a hard days walk over the pavement ment to ibe be able to t relieve their feet vat but dont forget to have hav them ethern large sizes I 1 r I 1 laughed but I 1 bought the slippers I 1 then again I 1 ba had 4 to buy fajr dozen azen pipes ipp and six pounds turkish so that the oldest af pf the Vou country I 1 co congers codgers S r might make the themselves ms laps perfectly aly at t home by fumi gating say my fl furniture arni fure and giving foul offense offence to my fay ol factories but in for a penny in n for a 1 at our house we go dead against eve grything that has a demoralizing tendency but hospitality is so go much agn an uppermost law in my cifes code bode that one morning she took trie me aside and ver very y pr privately i bately asked me if I 1 thought it would he wrong ng toi lor us to b buy ay a pack apack of cards I 1 looked at her here with an air of j amazement which she tightly righta interpreted r 11 i I 1 oh cohwell well dear dont buy them the 9 but you know aunt benson and cousin filberts s son inlaw in law are always telling how they lik like to play 1 ay whist and I 1 thought it would gratify them so but no master perhaps we had better f M not have I 1 the cards 4 S I 1 I 1 I 1 j il 1 I 1 I 1 i you I 1 lard are rights right jirs rs awell in your coap I 1 u aio n the theres 0 captain aa I 1 I 1 too 5 likes ik j bi bis glass ass bof ahot hot brandy arid and water just bp before f I 1 bed apie agi e ali aph aa I 1 nothing would wit bull old yelverton Tel verton i ton aag aha hs 16 aoby ba i son jefferson MT erson who vao will bore tie with s toni tong odley ahan to be furn furnished saied every evening wit with iwo two sherry ebb ble blei bleis i ala s apiece tebe to lobe ebli 1 ant batt 7 ull tell you I 1 wife I 1 an once for all aall they shall not make il gambli ba house se oira I 1 my premises anid U you will i insist fort Hon T oe house with ciempa company ny khey ahal chaum at least t while u under roy my roof lean decent ond and sober goiter lives iveah any dear don t f talk on so now n NV in in this thi Is way and then so disparagingly glyck of good old amri yelverton nr your mothr mothers own second pot husband you forget haw how kind he J w v it as to C 1 1 hp jip madeus made us I 1 his last vis viall it arid d I 1 I 1 am sure husband that young mr X nad is not 1201 A booby let ne see pow now if you afi should go into a nice calculation I 1 wi think you will find that he is as nearly related mated to you is as third or Irot fourth irth coti cousin sin ind and if ich li suh sustains lains that relation tb you 0 of f course ad he does tome to roe I 1 I 1 lr I 1 f I 1 my ot f affinity find consanguinity kl re too nuch forme form e I 1 burat burs tinto antii la tighter at length le nath th the Crystal cr stal police palace days clime for t three weeks after its io enius pening bota not a single ingle indi vidu alfrom thi the i counti country vp aar our door and I 1 began to felicitate myself on the poi possible isible eitor ei tor ahad I 1 had made in ny expectations but so soon on the pleasant dream was ended t one night div my dwelling i py my eyes fill on four regular country r trunks 1 and three carpel bags arched along through ali the entry on an examination J found abud some efthem marked jama james Bo bowling iding anc others janies bowling jr ofha of he name I 1 hii had n 0 o rem remembrance ep I 1 b a ce whatever I 1 a and p reeling but pleaseant ant I 1 passed a I 1 A the 0 parlor 8 jai doors and into the ire back basement iou found id m my wife tip tio to heril her elbows bow mixing I 1 biscuits while patsey was skinning it a large smoking him ham ahil which ah shi she had just taken from the pot oi ij F pi J t mrs lovell the mischief aret are these hse ifa bollings Bow rijn lings was my first salutation avell ell nw new dear daar ill fe tell 11 ll y you oi but you must noi not scold ion you see when mrs and I 1 I 1 were at cousin Se last summer the bollings Bow lings were often in and one afternoon we went a ald aid id took tegwith tea with them and of course you know I 1 had to io in invite hiie them to co come M e and see us it is 13 true they are not relatives and I 1 had no idea they woud come and make a regular atop with us but here they are eight precious souls in all hungry as hears bears f for or they say they have had no inner einner and we shall have to do the best beat we can with them for cousin Se sake I 1 I 1 felt appalled liere here were strangers enough to start a small boarding house who had no claim whatever upon us and there remained prospective spec tive visits from all the blessed relatives of the family famili besides when spouse had bad got her first batch of biscuits in the oven I 1 had to follow her into the parlor for an introduction old mr dowling bowling old mrs bowling miss emeline bowling miss adeline bowling miss mias caroline bowling bo w lifie mr james bowling jr and his hij two little children were all shaken altaker heartily by the hand for the honor of the family and more especially for cousin sen Se cals sake as my wife expressed it but if the bowlin bollings Bow lings I 1 as could have seen my heart they would have sloped before they had their suppers pers I 1 I 1 by the way as wife had to get up a regular cooked supper for them it was half past ten at night before we finished our meal and as a consequence a splitting headache 4 was wa 8 my companion for the whole next day three days after cousin seneca selkirk and wife pulled up accompanied toy by it a mr buckey a western gentleman who 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