Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-24
From the Springfield Republican. Fifth Avenue JapOniCas among the
 Green Mountains.

among the Green Mountains, a smiling emerald valley. completely surrounded by hills, and bearing no slight resemb> lance to birds nest on large scale, in the cent'e of which, like great white egg. lies Hyde's Hotel. I,suppose you great newspaper men who wield the great Organ (ish't that what you call it 9l of the P'ess. who prate of Nations veal and woe, the exports. imports. Nebraska and the state of the money ma, kets think it en'i'ely beneath your dignity to med. de with. or even to listen to trivial af> fairs. What then will you think Of me if l commence talking to you of some of our little family matters? We'll. you must know that sister Faith and I have como up here into the wilds of Vermont 10 do little of the rural. to propitiate the Goddess of Health, and 10 c, am into our poor little noddles the contents of some round dozen of books. We've lea'ned one quotation already, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" !" l think it's pretty, rather. don't you ? I've been trying to get chance 10 say i. for ever SO long. There's handsome gentleman sits opposite us at table. and I'd like him to think that l know Shakes pe"'e, but I somehow can't manage to bring it in apropos of ham and eggs.
 Oh this is most lovely place Ot's romantic to rave about scenery. isn't it ? The woods are such a vivid green. all around us stretch fields of waving golden grain. in the distance clearly defined against the sky, rise, deeply. darkly. beautifully blue" (lbat's another quo,a. ,ion,) the bold peaks of the Adirondack mountains. And such sunsets Las, evening, there were sucl, lovely pink and lilac clouds. just the colors of my last new silk from Stewards! The sun set most gloriou>ly, the sky was one gorge> ous mass of brilliant tints of gold and crimson, forming such fairy light cloud palaces, fleeling as those delightful Cha teaux en Espagne Chats F,eDch,) ) which when l've nothing else to do. I so dearly love to build. Nature here puts on her most exquisite attire. and by every wi,ch> ing variety of hill. dale and woodland, makes us all worship at her sh.ine.- There now--haven'L done up the see, nery nicely
 We didn't want tc come up here bit, but one day, as we'd almost got Pa ,o promise to lake us to Newport who mus, needs come in but Uncle Jack. Faith and l were real sorry, for he's so green. he wears queer, loose clothes. and has such great brown hands; he talks abou, crops and cows, and says "golly" and all sorts of odd words. I'm always asha> med to have any body come in. and find him at our house. As i'll luck would have it, Ma says, "1'm quite troubled about the girls, they don't seem very strong. we are thinking about sending them to the sea side" "Oh. nonsenseF' said Uncle Jack, "there's nothing like mountain air! You'd better send 'em up into Vermont,-there's a nice hotel not many miles from my farm. where wife goes every summer with the child rrn. for a little change and to see folks ; you'd better send them up there" In vain we begged and implored Ma with tears in our eyes, not to bury US alive, with all our pretty new dresses up in the Green Mountains. She said Uncle Jack was man of good. strong common sense.
 | hate common sensible men !; it was an excellent idea, and she shonld certain ly have us go back with him." When Ma once puts her foot down. she never takes it up again. so there was no use in our fretting although we were very much disinclined to waste our sweetness on the deser. air. q think that's original. but I'm not quite certain.) As there was nothing for us to submit. we turned our attention to those lovely Flats. open. wo' ked stockings. embroidered skirts and a'I sorts of rustic things. .-one's dress must be held up in the country. you know. UDcle Jack said, If we would only listen to reason, throw aside all those kickshaws. and get ourselves stout shoes, short skir;ed ginghsm frocks, and suns bonnets. we should do much better. ."-- Did any one ever hear such hea,henish ideas ? We talked seriously Of clipping, thinking i, would be a pleasing ex:ile. rneni, and far preferable to tanning our complexiona, losipg our tempe's and dy. ing of ennui up ia Veimont,-but Fed Shallow b,ains (a dear romantic fellow, just the one to elope wiihj had gone to Europe and Fig Augustus PolkeveI mol, e on whom Faith had lavished her young affections. was at Cape May. We heard before we left that he was engaged to ,he heiess. Bell Triplighily. Then Faith said "she never could abide him. but l know better. Her hearts love had been thrown away on an unworthy ob- jec',-and well might she say win the poet, :" How sharper than serpen,'s tooth it is 10 have a lhankless child. ' That isn't exactly what meant, but I don't doubt you get the idea.
 We'll. hete we are away down East.