Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-23
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THESE SUMMER DAYS.

After all the languOr and monOtony
of these midsummer days are commen-
sufate with the manner in which we are
disposed. There are many who find it.
difficult, even impossible, to fly the tasks
of the town, and so escape IFS scorching
walls and pavements, but it is not so
certain that this is ii great hardship in
many instances. 1t is a hardship or not
as ones mind may be conditioned to re-
ceive the inevitable as it is evolved day
by day. 4y9V .h*E EE
There is not such Il great change from
the society life of the city, to the society
life Of the watering. place, whether it be
the springs or the beach, that there
should be such a positive anxiety to get
away from the former to the latter.
Those who pack several thousand dollars
worth of clothing into ponderous trunks
and betake themselves to the fashionable
resort upon the approach OF these sum-
mer days, do not aetna II = need a change.
They have come through the whirl of
winters gaities, and there is whole
some dread of ennui as the season goes
out. They know that their neighbors Of
society are in the midst of preparations
to go sheIe orsthele -to the sea shore or
the springs, that there will be tax III mp
and confused the society pleasures
Of the winter They know, in fine, that
their society is transferred from the
town tosthe coantry irethis sheatea1 time,
and it is necessary to go with society to
retain society's good graces. There is Il
|. poor promise of rest in this; from morn
ling till night. it is one constant furry
Iiabonts iIfess, aud theLballs Inntin,iing
Eaway into the night rarely fail to tarnish
| tte ruddy glow of the cheek painted in
the morning bath. IL is tile men who
get most benefit from these places, and
theirs is slight compared with what
] they might have.
| The best of all Summer places are the
moaidaIns~ 40 anatterswhar moantai Iis
1-fOr there the air comes to you in its
| rarfied freshness and vigor; it paints
the cheek perhaps a little darkly, but it
| Brightens the eyes and gives il health
| glow to the whole system. Take your
| Alpine staff and climb in and out OF the
| difficult ways, over rocks, through the
bush. and around giant old trees; drop
yourself down from high precipices
wade the pure mountain streams, take
| lessons in botany from nature itself, ex-
pand your lungs to receive the pure all
rs it meets you in gentle greeting OF
| lloisterOusly lifts your hat and carries il
down over the fence and half way across
the meadow. :. Take your rod, put !;
lunch in your knapsack, and go out tt
fish. 1t is healthy to fish. There i.
more life and red cheeks in a two hours
sitting on the messy bank of the streau
| Watching the ecccntrfcities Of the cOrl
and line, than Il month on the balcony
of Il Long Branch hotel inspecting th'
turnouts, commenting upon the ladies
). if you are Il man, and upon their dresse
if you are not. Ii the rain overtake
YOU in the big meadow. as you go hom
from the fishing, do not hurry. 1t won
hurt your clothes, and will do you
, great deal of good. Surf-bathing is no
to be- compared to "a thoroughly goo
b soaking in midsummer showroom
OF those vigorous storms that come a.
t marching from the horizon in grea
black clOnds, looking Tor all the worl
/ like the smoke and blackness of "a grea
! battle, the imagination quickened an
! intensified by the roar and flash of tn
5 guns, aud the rumbling that goes II
: and down the valley, and calling I
t mind the ghosts of Hend:ick Hudson
= men in the Catskills.
4 There are some who cannot get niue
i. pleasure out of their snmnieiiifgs, an
: come lroinc feeling worse than If the
4 had remained in the city. They IN
It neither improved in health or in finar
s ces, and have not enjoyed one-twentiet
9 rs much rest as if they had remained i
i town.
d Iaere are. others wf,osget a greatsdei
e of enjoyment out O! every occasion, an
r need but little provOcation to happine
o and pleasure. The other day q frien
returned from the country, after OF
II months absence, in eestacies over Il
l. delights he had experienced. He hs
,e been on farm! He had gotten up wi
Il the sun in the morning, and with Il
n farm, UworInan, took his place in Il
IS fields- He went to the hay meadow vii
/ the fork and rake, and to the corn-fie