The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-13

| q more DraclnS manly locat-
ed in the Northern portion of our country,
and are about equally divided between in
land and sea-shore. Inland, we have among
the more popular, Schooley's, Catskill, and
the White Mountains, Lake Mahopac, Lake
George, Clifton, Lebanon, Bedford, Sharon
and Saratoga Springs, and Niagara Falls.
On sea-shore, among others, we have Cape
May, Shrewsbury, Long Branch, the High
lands, Cape Ann, Nahant, and Newport
Some of these furnish excellent fishing, and
all equally good bathing, and fine, bracing
sea-breeze !; Newport being the more pop
ular of them all, and none the less so, since
the opening of Downing's beautiful Sea-
Girt House," as ehgibly situated as any
there, and always we'll supplied with their
best oysters, picked and in the she'll, fresh
from their well known stand, No. 5 Broad
street
Then there is another class of summer
boarding places, more numerous than the
foregoing, but which can hardly be called
watering places, yet many of them are suf-
fciently near to the seaside to furnish good
sea- bathing; the greater number, however,
are In the interior. These are to be found
among the farmers. A home secured for
month or two in summer, with good
thriving farmer, in some fine rural spot-that
would be going intothe country-and, while
it might be less fashionable, would, for that
very reason, be the more comfortable to
many, and would answer to all better the
purpose for which a resort TO country is
needed. And these truly rural homes are
better adapted to the circumstances of
large class who need recreation in the coun-
try, and are becoming more appreciated, as
well by others who have larger means to
pay more for country home, as by those
who have less, and are being sought by all.
They are the Watering Places, bathing or
no bathing, pleasant as that might be.
To those who live in the crowded city,
under the usual excitement of city-life, for
ten months in the year, these country res
orts are as indispensable and useful when u-
diciously selected as home is Those who
see little but what is artificial, whose eyes
seldom gaze on anything fresh from Gods
hand, and whose feet tread only on brick
and stone, need, for change of scene, for
relief of mind, and for health, to tear away
from the city and away to the country, to
walk at least, one month in the year, on
Gods naked earth, gaze on his beautiful foli-
age, & breathe the pure air fresh from mount
ain and glen. And where better can all this
be had and enjoyed, than at the farm
er's home Here you are in the country
not in town or city-here you may rove
through fields and climb hills and see
what God has made, almost in its prim-
| tive state.
If the working men and women of the
city can find no other motive for economy,
and the saving of their earnings; to have
the privilege of enjoying week or month
in thecountry forrest, recreation and health,
ought to be motive quite sufficient; for
they would return with mental and physical
systems refreshed, the benefits of which
would doubtless be felt through the remain
der of the year; perhaps to the detriment
of the doctor, and in that case to the bene-
| fit of the butcher. In selecting home for
ones summer vacation, it is well to study
as well, the wants of our physical system
as our own qualification. rs general
thing, we who live on the sea-board, and
inhale all the year more or less salt air,
need to resort to the interior, and breathe
in freely the fresh mountain air; and those
who live in the interior, and inhale all the
year a fresh air, would do well to resort to
the seaside and breathe in freely the brac-
ing salt-air, and plunge occasionally into
the saltwater but to those who live in
pent up cities, of filthy streets and stifed
air, change to pure air, whether fresh or
salt, is great and blessed change.
Now, among the various Watering Places,
inland and on sea-board, and all of them
easy of access by steamboat or railroad, or
| both, ,allmay choose for themselves whereso-
ever they will according to taste, health and
means, a summer home, excepting one class,
and we happen to belong to that class Very
few of these lakeside or seaside homes of
fashion and health are available by the
class to which we belong-not even the
farmers rural home have we access to.
While the white farmer, more wise, yields
to the wants and wishes of applicants, and
throws open his doors to provide them
home for brief time, and thereby puts
little extra cash in his pocket, the eolored
inhabitant of the rural district is less wise,
and refuses theapplicant, and keeps thelit
extra cash he might thereby have, out of
his pocket-an act of injustice, alike to the
applicant and himself
| But if we cannot find place to rusticate
! for a month or two in summer, wheresoever
we may choose among the farmers; and if
we have not our Lake George or Saratoga,
we have our Newport, which, however, hap
pens to be at Bridgeport. At the term
ination of one of the fashionable streets of
that city, on the South, but far enough from
the heart of the city to be the more plea
SAINT, and in full view of Long Island Sound
and every thing that passes, stands the
Douglass House, large and commodious, with
fine parlors, ample lodging-rooms and well
furnished-and what is better still, an agree
able host and hostess in Mr.. Douglass and
lady, who are ever careful to supply well
their table with the good things Of the sea
son, both from sea and land, and served up
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