The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-17
= nc Watering Places.
OCEANIC HOUSE, Convey ISLAND, I
July 8, l84S.

OCkANlC HOUSE, SoNEf ISI-AND,
July 8, 184S.
1t is no rifing matter, believe me, to become the
hstorographer OF {, sli, nabe watering place the
first season of its existence. In fact young water
ing places (what an deaD are like young IN tidens:
they must be frowned upon and caressed, humored
and crosses, scolded and relted, all IN the same
breath.
Wherefore /, Fitzherbert Montaban Shandy,
in view OF all the difficulties by which I am sur
rounded, in view OF rebellious subjects and scon-
full peers, IN view of the Jealouses, oddities,
prices and whims of old men and young men, old
women and-no, that is pebeian-there is no such
thing as an old woman in fashionable lfe-but in
spite of the women generally, and of little boys
and little girls, and nurses and Wallets, and of eve
ny other creature-always excepting our glorious
French cook, whose rule in his own department is
supreme-but in view OF and in spite OF everything
and everybody else, am about TO shadow forth as
an honest correspondent should, picture of" what
passeth here" Be not deceived. l shall not tell
you that the lovely Mics H. with pouung lip, or
the enchanting Miss L., with plnk eye, or the
delectable Miss Ampersand, with Grecian con
tour arefhe admired of all admirers, and lead the
fashionable flock wherever they choose. For the
life of me, l cannot conceive how any one writing
for The Herald can fall into such bunders. 1t is
classes, not individuals, that you editor wish to
see truly delneated 1t is life, not petty clrcum-
stance, that you wish pictured in your columns.
And herein consists the great secret of the sue
cess of the Heraid, whose end both at first and
now, was and is to hold las twere, the Mirror up
nature, to show the very age and body Of the time,
a one-sided view of life and the world; and as two
wrongs make not right, SO two journals which
labor pervers-ly uphold different opinions, repre-
sent not the public opinion, the great voice of the
people. And that Is the reason why SO many edl-
fn nj ynn ris off
their journals ten feet into the mud before they get
fairly under way
Well then, you have my plan for the campaign,
and as it Is based upon the plan, by which your
journal is conducted, feel confident, IN advance,
that shall prove the most fortunate of all your
correspondents.
shall furnish you with a dagueneotype of life at
the Oceanic ,Folly-wlsdom and madness-philo-
sOphy, French cookery and salt water baths-a
storm old Ocean, and a tempest in a teapot
you shall have them all LIE voila!
SHANSY.
N B.-I perceive that your printers devil spells
my name " Handy" Faugh the Handys are
plebeian get; John Handys grandmother BACKED
the boots of Fitzhercst Montalban Shandy's great
grandfather. Enough
MAHopAC LAKE, July G, l848
If you wish to get nd of the heat, dust, smoke,
and noise of the city, where one has good oppor-
tunity to become familiar with WEAKNESS, lever,
and fret-where men sit and hear each other
groan-
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies
Where but to think is to be full Of sorrow,
And leaden-eyed despars
Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow
Just take the cars on the Harlem road for Croton
Falls, and then direct your course for Lake Maho-
pac In three four hours you have left the
world all behind you, and are in mountain para
disc, in the midst of enchanting lakes, among
green islands, famed by pure cool breezes
Heavens, how exhilirated you are The air Is so
fresh and bracing that opacannot help opening his
mouth, as though he we staring at the "ele-
phant,'' IN order to drink much as possible of
1t at once. AS Burns says
What, tho like commoners of air,
We wander out, we know not where,
But either house hall
Yet natures charms, the hills and woods
The sweeping vales and foaming floods,
Are free alike to ALL"
There is no place in the State where the atmos-
phere IS purer and cooler in summer-no place
where the scenery is wilder and more romantic.
The little lake, over which ever blows cool breezes
ch.ckered at all times with sail and row boats,
beauified with two fairy like islands, sunny spots
of greenery,' is nor surpassed In beauty.
This season, more than before, the place wears
the appearance of fashionable resort. We have
met here some OF the wealthiest and best families
from the city, who much charmed with the
scenery and healthy air that they have resolved to
stay through the whole season. The quiet and
absen of all rowdyism, show that better class
of persons has been attracted by It's superior ad :
vantsges as watering place. MUNcHENPRIEND.