New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-10
Summer Travel.

be pastoral Grave elderly couples discuss
in solemn family council the various advan-
tages of Niagara, of the White Mountains,
of the Canada tour, of the sea-coast-even
Of the Sulphur Springs and Sharon, beloved
| of BoStonians. The sons and daughters in
the conclaye have no minds to make up
Fashion is Fate for Young America of both
sexes and Saratoga in July and Newport in
August are foregone conclusions Happy
mortals, who can thus eschew Wall-St. and
Pearl-st.-can even shake off, although lin
! geringly, the dust of the Avenue, to shake
on, dancingly, the dust of Marvin's and of the
Ocean House. In a state of society less
fast and intense than ours, people @ into
the country to be quiet and to enjoy the
things of the country. Young America, on
the contrary, with entire originality, merely
escapes from the City, where unpleasantly
necessary duties preclude the possibility of
dancing more than all night, to that Elysian
leisure of the Springs or the sea-cOaSt, where
| there may be mGtlnees daHSdntcS and heS
dansGntes, and hops, and balls, and I'M
promptus, and, in fact, illimitable and end
less dancing. The heels carry it against
the head. Papa and Mamma may canvass
any trip they fancy, but Papa sadly needs
the waters and Mamma absolutely requires
salt air.
These are the movements of the fashion
able world, as certainly to be found in GER
tain places at certain times as Benedict
upon his stand at 8 o'clock precisely. But
the great throng of Summer travellers
tarries only a little at both the focuses of
fashion and is happy fit happens at Saratoga
for the July fancy ball and at Newport for
that of August. The tide of travel sets to-
ward Niagara, and the grand tour is COM
pleted by stepping over the line into Canada
and returning by the White Mountains and
down the valley of the Connecticut. Tren-
ton Falls are satellite of Niagara They
wait, gracefully garnished with romantic
foliage, in the ante-chamber and murmur
family of the Monarch Poets sometimes
find them more beautiful They seem to
them feminine measured with the Niagaran
might
We hear pleasant reports of the little lakes
in the interior of New York, and a wander
ing Briton would strike 4 genuine VEN Of
England in the Boston atmosphere of Shar-
on Close az hand, too, are the coasts of
New-Jersey and the shores Of the sound.
Fairfield is quiet rural place 1t has a
spacious house, well kept, very good bath
ing and a country for rides and rambles, not
striking, but sequesteed and Characteristic.
The steam suddenly shrieking through the
repose of those counties has as yet hardly
awakened them. They look languidly upon
the locomotive. The whipping post still
stands upon the Fairfield green. At the
White Mountains there are visions Of new
hotels. California will be coming up pres
emily to breathe little cool air, and they
are not prejudiced against Californian
gold in the shrewd Granite State. But
North or South or West or East it matters
little, we must all 90 out of town. We all
delight so in the country. We are 50 fond
of trees and brooks and fields We know
so much about them. We see them so well
during the choice dinners at the Saratoga
Lake and in the fine sandy reaches adjolning,
and in the cool silence OF the ball-dlning-
room at the Ocean. We pity sincerely those
unhappy Londoners whose season culmi-
mates in July, and who have nothing but the
parks TO remind them of rurality. They are
spacious 10 be sure, entirely retired and full of
country atmosphere and feeling, bur they are
still the city. We are all going TO be COM
Portable in the genuine country Item, a
room tep by five Item, one chair. ITEM,
one bureau. Item, one table with irregular
legs. We are going to recruit ourselves in
true country style after the winter dls>ipa-
tons. item, billiards and bowling. ITEM,
luleps, cobbers and nogs Item, a dress
dinner Of 300. Item, dusty drive Item.
polkas, redowas and schouishes, till morn
ing doth appear"
To those who wish TO breathe one long
breath OF pure country air, and who have
only a few DAYS TO devote to 1t, we can re-
commend from the pleasantest remem-
brance, run upon the Erie Railroad 10
Lake Erie They can fancy as they dart
through the Indian Reservation, that they
see things as Daniel Boone and Leather
Stocking saw them, real red Isdlans in gen.
ulne yellow moccasins; and as they scale
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