Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-08-01

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family, and you are sure to find upor
the pier old Roberts'-we use the adj
jective with respect-'Capt. Higgins,
Capt. Roderick,' or some other of tn,
Tritons who ages ago came up out o.
the sea and planted their tridents as
sign-boards to show forth to ali corners
that there was to be had entertainment,
for man, woman, and what not-nol
unlike Balzac's 'Maison Vauouer,
Pension bourgeoise des deux sexes ct
autres.'
From the moment Of landing until
you take your departure for Other
lands you begin to comprehend the
limited space in which human being
may sleep and perform the ablutions
which society expects of its members
of morning.
But where in the world am / TO put
my trunk exclaims the gentle Mrs.
G-. There is no bureau, nor wash.
stand, nor anything. And, mercy on
our bones. this bed is filled with
sticks?'
Patience, my dear answers Mr..
c.. 'iou see we are a little out OF
the world, and must take things as we
find them.
Proceeding upon this theory. as
there are no bells to ring, and no SER
wants to answer if there were a thou
sand, we appropriate wash stand and
bureau which stand in neighboring
unoccupied room.
But, doctor, expostulates the per-
picked Triton, as, some davs after
ward, when the theft is discovered. he
rubs his tanned and hardened visage.
i got that ere stand and bureau for
Mr. Scratchgravel, the great Boston
banker
i am sorry for Scratchgravcl,
worthy Neptune; but when YOU wrote
me could have room No. ). YOU GER
tainly did not mean TO give me the
floor and bare walls only
No. doctor; but YOU see, Mr..
Scratchgravel, the Boston banker. is
comm next week. and
The remainder Of the sentence wa.
lost TO my ear but il may be said that.
after much pondering on the part Of
the landlord, he sent to Boston or Port
land for one more wash-stand and bu-
reau.
The beds, however. remained as
hard and lumpy As ever. with this NOR
sci Of satisfaction, that corn husks
viii, after while, fit themselves 10
your body, and, though not a downy
couch, you must bear with it until the
Mount Desert landlords overcome their
preJudlces against hair mattresses. or
until some civilized hotel. keeper ar
rIves there, and starts healthy com
petition.
As these pages are written for che
Information aud amusement of the
public, and especially of those who
may wish 10 visit Mount Desert, it be.
comes a solemn duty to say som ethin.
about the food offered YOU 10 eat.
When one sits down to "A Mount DE,
ert table, the memories OF Parker's
beeisteak, or Dclmoaico's P3ulet u
fESpdgnol, to say nothing Of the Ink
uries of the home table. come throny-
ing suInptuously before him to Danish
whatever little appetite remains. When
people COOK anu eat food ol this
wrctched description, there must be
something wrong in their moral condl-
ton. l am aware this condemnation
a regards food applies equally to 9TH
er parts Of the country-to the White
Mountains and the far West. The un-
fortunate creatures who cook at these
places will make bread with about
equal quantities of flour and salcratus !:
they insist upon calling beans coffee.
and 50 on. At Mount Desert very lit
Tie meat Is furnished the hungry So
Journer, but he is permitted to feast
and fast upon fish. This diet j. pet
haps satisfying TO the intellectual Bo,-
tonian, who seeks that food which slim
uihtes and adds To the brain: bnt the
more scnsuous New Yorker, Or the
rearing tearing half horse and half ali
gator Of the West, must have beef.
fowl, ami mutton.
One day we begged of our landlord
10 send 10 Boston or somewhere and
get barrel of corned beef.
We'll now, that is an idce.' he re-
sponded, while he shifted one leo over
the other and turned his head. ~ he
lay stretched at full length on The
store-room counter. That's an idcc
Will it keep:
The beef: Not long, for your hun
cry guests will eat it up.'
IhIs was all we got of the corned
beef although the question was again
and again brought before the clouded
mind of the landlord and some of Us,
who could not live on beans, fish. and
saieratus bread alone, sent up To the
Falmouth House in Portland for other
supplies.
Perhaps this is solemn, not to say
despairing. aspect of the commissariat
question; but the fact must remain
that the food furnished at most-I will
not say all-of the hotels or boarding
houses at Mount Desert is highly un-
satisfactory; and if ever there was a
Christian missionary work needed,
here and throughout this conntrv. it is
upon this matter of the quantity, q ual-
ity, and the most healthful way Of
food.
But the crowds Of people who every
summer flock to Mount Desert are will
ing TO overlook, in measure. the short
comings OF the table. The bounteous
least which nature spreads before them
the incentive to pass all day in the
open air either in lcagtheYed pedes-
tfian expeditions, III sailing or rowin.
upon the waters of the beautiful bay
gives them an appetite equal to any sit
uatlon. Mount Desert is not fashion,
able resort, while il is more frcoucnted
than an. OF the watering g-places-under
winch title do not class Long Branch.
which i nothing but "A parasite to the
city OF New York. The people who
tne summer Oh the rough, rocky island
OF Mount Desert leave their big trunks
athome. The ladies wear wide
mats and picturesque costumes of rcd