The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-08-12
Romance AT the Ohio white suI.
phur.

James Fitz James has at last been at
the White Sulphur. He remained at Sar-
atoga until Angelina Arabella Araminta
Spriggins had worn, consecutively all Of
her flty-nine dresses, and had received
and rejected a proposal in each, and then,
tired Of the monotony Of dressing and un-
dressing, eating, drinking, smoking, smirk-
ing, simpering, simmering, ct cetera, his
feeble mind was busily employed in de-
Gliding upon where 10 90 next. He thought
Of Newport, but Charles Augustus Flum-
max, who has a heavier, blacker mustache
a much smaller foot and a larger purse,
was there, and II would not do for the
north star TO sail within the effulgence of
such brilliant moon. On the whole, IL
was better not 10 be MoON-struck. Then
the Falls occurred TO him, but, confound
il, thought James Fitz james, ESQ, one
doesn't wish to be obliged TO climb rocks
and walk scores of rods 10 get sight of a
great deal too much water for making
mint juleps or for any other practical use,
even If il does fall tumultuously and pro-
miscuously over precipice. So the Falls
were disposed of.
Jumes Fltz james, Esq. takes Harper's
Weekly-who don'tl And in a recent
number, in looking over the list Of water
ing places, his eye caught "The Ohio
White Sulphur Springs, Delaware eoun.
.s,-. Ohio The siRht of the sipnifcRni
words Tor some unaccountbaie reason
THRILLED him. Doubtless, that he, it is
some out-of-the-world place, where they
have pork and potatoes for breakfast and
potatoes and pork for dinner, and a little
of both, warmed up, for supper, but then
% glorious thought such sumner as
Fitz james would create a sensation such
as the 'illimitable west never experienced
and at avery little cost Ofcourse, those
barbarians out west don't know how ia
charge.
The small portion of Mr.. Fitz James
usually called "mind," was made up. All
of his little ct ceteras of dress and person
al traps were duly boxed and trunked
and he was soon on his way to the White
Sulphur, with his heart and mouth open
TO new impressions.
Ultimately he reached the station on
the Delaware road. Strange to say, al.
though a crowd of persons were on the
platform, they did not greet him with
cheers, and sadder still, they made no -e-
mark about the elegance of his trousers
One small boy made sort of subrosa re.
mark about his "bob-tail," but il was any.
thing but complimentary, and Fitz James
resolved to forget it as soon as possible
To be sure he was treated courteously
but no better than "rough old cock, you
know, who sat beside him. and who, "my
stahs had never been 20 Saratogah Vol
knowl perfect barbarianl" One has only
TO imagine himself in such a position Il
realize the intense agony which our here
suffered.
The carriages proceeded over the nice
/ y grayelsd road from the depot TO the
Springs, and as Mr.. Fitz james saw the
glorious fields and forests which stretch il
delightful expanses on every side, he wal
constrained 70 "declah," "'pon honor,
there was nothing like it in the East
Arriving at the hotels, his eyes opened
with wonder. Newport or Saratoga new
er had revealed 10 him 90 much natura
and artistic beauty. The brilliant foliag,
Of the surrounding forests presented I
beautiful contrast TO the bright new
! "green blinded" hotel, mansions aud cot
tages, aTayed in excellent taste upon thu
grounds, and the rippling, sparkling rive
at the foot of the slope. Very gently, il
his sleeve, did he declare that il wa
ahead ofanything he had seen, andwhen
as the omnibusses drove up before th'
hotel, he saw the manly forms Of the male
sojourleTs, and the fair faces and dashinl
eyes Of the female visitors, his hopes o
making sensation failed him and his
heart sunk within him. He found there
was a fashionable world, outside Of th,
old regime at the East, and a wonderful
improvement in all that is manly ant
beautiful and refined and intelligent Rn'
accomplished, and he found, too, that il
this new world something more was re-
quired than "whiskersn and elegant otrow
sers" and a carefully folded "neok-tie,
and so finding, his heart sank again unit
it nearly. reached his diaphragm.
But our readers must not suppose tina
Fitz James was not properly attended to
for such was not the case. He was pro
vided with one Of the "few, only-femain
ing" rooms. Then began his life at th'
White Sulphur. Oh, how he slept Sucl
sleep would refresh the godsl Oh, how h
atei He never saw food ''as was food
before. We are afraid he ate too much
nevertheless, he bowled OFF the effects
down on the river bank in a delightfully."-
cool building put up for the purpose, ans
a0on had room for more. "
But for the romance-White Sulphur
beauty was ahead os the style "at the
East" The fairy creatures that tfiPPe'