Show CUPOLA B Y B ON about this time of year the man in the city gets tle ito country fever lever he lie Is of the noise and grind and hia his alre astles are in the verdant valley valleys where the swallows homeward fly where the silvery nightingale khants her re refrain fraino where the loundry folks call each other dill bill and hank and swap chew ing tobacco and yarns tor for pastime several times a day he Is reminded that god made the country and man made the town he lie lit 1 unlike the lit tie girl upstairs who was told not to bo afraid of the thunder as god was with her her reply has ottin been told papa let me come down and sleep bleep with mamma and you come up and stay star with god avilles the man in the metropolis Is will ing the countryman should come to the city and see the elshrs si slits hear bear the noise and bo be impressed but what he wants Is to escape to the quietude of the rural districts and bo be with god and gods handiwork awhile he lie Is nauseated with metropolitan scene and find customs he ile yearns to get out into the pure air preserves where he can drink buttermilk and study tho the locomotion of the new now calf bacon says god almighty first planted a garden and the city man yearns to follow la in his ills footsteps footit epe he ile believes with cowper that rural gounds sounds as well as rural eights sights exhilarate tho the spirit and he longa longs to hear the low of the brown eyed clover breathed heifer the chorus of the frogs and the farmer lad calling to the hogs he fie would be somewhere where he his does not have to t tip ill the waiter and hae baie his tro sors creased keats in la su substance b stance says that to one who has been long in city pent it is 1 sweet to look 1001 into a country sk the open face faco of heaven and breathe a prayer there the meadowlark meadow lark aslant on his waving 9 perch calls to his male mate the rich odors of plowed fields arise mingled with the perfume of the wild violet and plum blossoms Is it not enough to fidget tho the toller toiler in a stifling office where an odor of at fried tried ham liters filters la to from a harbby restaurant to be dispelled only by the aroma of a cigarette which the office imp Is 1 smoking in the hall for several weeks 0 wo o have been living in a flutter over grand opera we wish devoutly that we could love grand opera for itself alone but we can t L no more can the devil in our office the flurry reached him a A fortnight ago and saturday night he h parted with enough substance wrung from a week weeks communion with inky rollers to gala gain admission to heaven further than this he be was evidently not transported aa as he be confided in the boss bosa this morning that he couldn t understand a word of it he ile liked the fine clothes cf of the singers ho he was visibly impressed with the glad silks and the conventional black and mud white of the audience and he eudea ored to get got enthusiastic over the tu ture re leel tu ture rela re la lal I 1 of the star F performer er former in vocal attitudes but he t get the hang bang of the plot 11 I 1 what t el ell he asks what tell t ca was they in anyhow no york bowery or fitt avaloo ava noo N when hen we told him it wai was italian he was angry at belas being bunched again what tell with apologies to sir townsend the town man who remained out until three a clock in the morning on the grounds that his wife coulden couldn rit t be any madder than she would if it he went home at I 1 a m and then got mixed up tip filth with the cuckoo clock has been outdone an Engil engiishman who was very fond fona of egis and who had bad traveled all over the co continent u tinen t boasted that he could get an egg for breakfast in whatever coun try he found himself upon his arrival in china he endeavored to make known his desire for the customary cua tomary egg the wily celestial pretended not to understand the traveler shaped an no egg ath his bands hands crack ed ell an imaginary egg with his knife clucked with imminent danger of being served with an ancient egg but to to no purpose finally thoroughly disgusted he be loft tt tho the table stooped to the floor and strutting about drooped his wings and cucut cu cut tut cut c docketed until he had all the celee celes tiala in the eating house grinning with merriment he fie got his egg 15 1 tied red hair says ay an authority denotes purity of thought and intensity of feeling another asks what docs does the white horr horse indicate why this fling at mans friend our milk white stel stadt ild milton tolls tells us in paradise tee lost that death rides on a white horse the coffer scoffer bould should becaro |