The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-26
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agsdss y, Sg d going to the country
=. lend the summer ts ~ TG,!Ityy which
Tbb : ~, aO' Aiyenities oi nounial 4 yaI Y
hSall thgg .1,% within aday fido y
axe az 20 YoiE may be found inc so' TrltS The
most Oc d,ssrus Of a painter. Nature .S.d y
a,' ~ come ont and enjoy hs " I'D ,Sn or
ceps tae .. sIS,Vt tsEes along his wife and
tE9 WOOL y U1 saStbinks he Is going % hsye .
s ,soS inc Never was deluslon !gs tgs,
h. a. has as We may say ever, S ssSgSs
nc .n w. ~ look for a summer Of asus I Ws
h. and his arc all in capital aasssantsnssble,
5',. which Is hardly les R 3. NV sysn
.r S5fIIciert sum Of money. ~ I Ultimate mai,
; sunny ~ ,hcsc rarest and most lor Lulae
NJ mortals, whose business y , niI H care
hsS , .ne % y I6St be Is freed from earking
OIL INV, s,,,Ioss Of everything gong 70
. .n SS1s be- Is away Reaching his , des,
, ,uln % i NAV DO bis amazing gooa luck
In ssS sood rooms at the hotel where ne
70 70 anq iISiSSSrh himself against the July
S SS a superior table, as B9 i.lcI
l nsSSI wo1Id say, civil walters
pa Sp'' everything nice , and TIDY
T Ivy ,"re All exceptional instances
ii fortune, as every traveller knows S oNS,s
N bIs cost. But in this extreme anu p .n,
SslnDossbIe case, tho. town man, u WlIIlng
~ mi himself in the confessional, will 40
spGwledVc, after aweek or 50 o. I9e
ri,aI elysium, that he Is tired OF II ~
Ne climbed 10 mountains and seen the 10
mons sunsets. Hchas rUwed (as matter
n fact. The bostman handling the oarsD
anon tho Classiest Of lakes or rivers 8hete
srrbinr trees nearly meet In mid stream
1 ~ bsSdTiven ali over the nelghborllood,
and found artists skCtching the most eS-
Guisite gems of scenery, one Of wlilch ne
GoutrScIed for on the spot There Is
Solhipr wanting to make this town man
Sovy' 30 far as outdoor exercise, mleness,
snafng appetite, and every gradhcano9
\ ,Ss Ssnses can minister TO him. And
", before halt the month is out he .
bored, and anxious 10 return TO town. II
6e were alone in the world he would 90
a But he has burned bis ships. His
city residence Is tenantless, save when
burglars enter through the coal hole, or
MrR window, hunt for the silver (provi-
jeuIly stored elsewhere), crack o lew bot
lles Of wine, and snap up what uncon-
Ijdered triaes previous burglars have not
csrried oil. His wife and children are
decidedly notOf bis mind aboutqgoing
bsck. They revel in this country yaca-
lion. For the vile there is the relief Of
nOt having house to manage; and with
lhe fresh minds OF childhood the novelty
d The country is long wearing oil So
wterlsmilias is doomed TO endure what
Il last becomes to him the most tiresome.
d eIstenre-the being buried in the
coantry and not sympathising id its sim
plcity and its rCpOse. How can he so
.ynpathise who has for twenty or thirty
years been living in the heart Of our most
cumplex civilization, and engrossed In
ansssing the money which he is now try
1g to enjoy ina manner most abnormal
DhimSelf; For he has little or no taste
for green.tangled wildwoods or any other
Of those charms of nature which poets
write up eXtravagantly. That is the one
Thing missing, whose wants makes the
richest banQuets Of natures beauties pail
upon him at last. 1t is given to but
lev people to love nature truly and de.
votedly Artists, botanists, geologists,
hunters and fishermen are among
them; such persons never weary Of
regions where they can freely cater to
their peculiar tastes. But with ninety
nine men out of q hundred the assertion
thst they enjoy natural sCenery-beyond
the agreeable shock of a first glance at
some captivating wonder-is an amiable
AfCctstiOn. To all of those a summer,
eVelln the pleasAntest Of country retreats,
proves but burden. They would have
been much better of II they had remain
din town aud shot out into the green
fields or down 10 the sea at intervals,
never going so far away that they could
not return in two or three hours ride,
and by no means abandoning their com
lortab!e town houses TO rats and burglars.
We have been cOnjuring IN an ideal place
in the country, There is no spot, within
our knowledge, exactly answering the de-
sctipuon. AT the watering resorts and
mountain homes the hotel Accommodations
are miserable, the prices are too high, the
service the worst pOssible,and society rules
WIlharigOraSseyere asin the middle ofthe
Town season. Freedom OIL action is more
limited there than In the city, and Mrs.
Grndy a hundred times more inquisitiye
a0d CensOriOuS. Itispurely tashion-and
not Tue search for health or the love Of
NallFe-which drives tens Of thousands
OF our people to the discomforts of the
ordinary country hotel IN the summer.
II y a fashion, however, whose com.
lnands are less slavishly obeyed year by
year. Last summer thewatering. places
lid but a slim business with thisclty: and
We should be content if they make up d
SUI! poorer return Of gains next 0ciober.
ms great question Of town uS. country
s q summer home may be considered ID
laluneFable lights and treated after no
Gnu Of methods, but they all but deepen
u W. conviction that no place can compare
%lI1 New York for substantial comfort in
sao lot months. And this we toldly de,
''aFe with the mercury in the nineties!