The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-07-18
SusnlnerinE.

The editor of the New York Evening MaiI is
preparing n book, of which many copies will be
demanded, if gotten up properly. 1t should show
how short and long excursions can be made out
of New York, and ut what cost ; also, where
families can spend the summer pleasantly, how to
get there, and at what rates from two dollars n
week each, up to two hundred the rich ,an take
care of themselves but the struggling want to
know where cheap, plain, healthful and enjoyable
accommodations can be had. IL would he a good
plan for our country friends to advertise all these
things literally and truthfully in Mr.. Sweester's
book especially the prices and modes and time
OF. reaching their places. IL you want the luxury
of rest, and that Is what our citizens most need,
go to n farmhouse, several miles from u railroad
station or steamboat landing, which promises
nothing more than cleanliness and plain fare,
whose occupants make no pretensions to have de-
scended from the Great Mogul or To have been
once rich, and lost all by going security who
don't own to having any rich relations, nor to
have had as b~oarders, formerly, the Queen Of
Sheba, or Cleopatra, or Victoria Regina. If you
happen ut a farm house where they begin on
SO this line" you may be- sure that will be their
only . line" and their biggest line to the end of
the chapter, and had better /. move " right off,
bag and baggage, to other quarters, even If it rs
dark, and camp out that night i'm the corner of a
fence, a mile of. Why do our people submit 80
passively to the robbcries and impositionr of Long
Branch, Saratoga, and Cape May? What of
rest, enjoyable rect, do any such places give to a
wearied body, to an o~ver-worked brain, and a
constitution ready to break by the excessive tolls
of city life. Go, reader, where you can dress in
your commonest clothing; and you poor over
worked wife don't take that everlasting sew
ing " along with YOU resolve not to take a single
stitch during your entire absence; let your only
a. sewing apparatus consist of a ball of yarn, n
skein of silk, and two needles leave your Thin
bic at home if you sew on all the buttons, and
keep the stockings darned, that will be quite
enough. Sleep from dark until sunrise be about
ON EAf or hnrEa in rrIa nxrinn hnatfn1
swimming, botaniZing or with hammer and
microscope study the rocks and read the histories
Of the localities from ages before the flood, AZ you
can do; climb mountains, explore caves. in short,
do anything and everything winch will entertain,
instruct, or crafty yourself, or others, from
breakfast until noon, and from dinner to sun
down; 50 that when You come home to dinner
You will be as hungry rs Il bear, and bacon, cab
bage and corn-bread will taste sweet to YOU after
dinner you 60 again, that when you come home
at sun-down, you will sigh for a bed, hardly tax
ing time for a dry cracker and a cup of tea, all
that you ought TO have, and all that night you
sleep like a baby, and next morning you will feel
hungry enough to eat your wife and children,
and go happy and good natured that life would
have new charms for you. Rest from care, from
business anxiety, from dress, and the needle,
from the conventionalities Of society, these are
what city people need during summer, and they
most certainly are not to be had At the seaside or
the spa.
y grand good idea Tor all concerned would be
for the managers of the Pacific Railroad TO take
persons for half fare to the utmost limit of their
line, beyond Cheyenne this would make the
road talked about, would bring it to the atten-
ton of the public, who, when they saw the safety
and profitableness of the investment would want
more stock than ths company want to part with.
and would give excursiOnists a more correct idea
of the yastness of our country than they could
get by n years reading. At Cheyenne we could
almost shake hands with Brother Brigham and
his-by the way, wasn't 1t he, or him, with
whom Beecher iraternizes so cordially, or was it
Chaplin? We know 1t was some outsider at all
events, it would be n grand and novel excursion /;
whats the use of hanging around the Falls, and
Mammoth Cave, and the Bay of Fundy let us
get up something new under the sun, and by
next year We may be able TO "rail . it to the
Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada, and the cedars of
three thousand years ago. Meanwhile, Mr..
Sylvester, get your book out by the first of May,
50 that we may make n selection for our summer
ing. But, alas the summer Of our life is over /;
It's smiles, Its sunshine and Its joys are gone it
was not 30 a year ago it is for the little ones We
are concerned now, and the only life left to us is
in their future-may it be one of brightness, and
health and purity the happifying of the world
they live in.-HdH's Journal Of Health.