New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-02

storms alilSej and every day the IN
hacIkneyed eye finds changes in the same land
scape. But Nature must come to us-she
flies If we pursue her. The best lessons
which she gives to the best minds
never get written out and are never printed
in books. Each new recognition of natural
beauty is n new gift of bountiful Providence
it has no yesterdays and it may have no to-
mOrrows. Every man or woman of educated
eve has memories of distinct revelations, of
special sunriSes, of first glimpses Of novel
beauties, which 80 took captive the soul that
they have become a possession forever aud
need no memorandum. All wisdom is ready
to wait and especially the wisdom which re-
CARDS the beautiful as the cOstllest sOlace Of
our weary lives.
Of course, about this half nOmad C Summer
life of which our people are so fond, this So
jouIning in great caravanserie3 full OF TAR
women and men brave or otherwise, but always
bold to bear the Parthian glances Of beauty,
there Is a certain degree of listlcssness, good
deal Of flirting and other foolery mear-
choly display of our minor and sometimes OF
our major vices there is needless waste
Of time, of money, and OF moral earnest
ness, which is what we can least afford to
lose. But then, under like circumstances, the
mischief would go on in town as it goes
on at Newport or at Saratoga The fine birds
in their fine feathers would be no wiser at
home than they are abroad. They are the most
prominent of the guests which throng
the Summer hotels, and give Us the fine colors
of the picture and the high, ford notes Of
the music. On the other hand, if we look for
them at the Summer resorts, we shall be sur
prsed to find how many good folk, with no
nonsense about them, are really resting with
a kind of sleepy might and main. They dance
not; they do not play carls; they are
mostly past the power of flirting, and many
of them are hOpelessly married. They go to
the Springs to the mountains, TO the Ocean-side
simply to do nothng-the most profitable
business, sometimes, in which we can engage;
and they do nothing with a great deal of
assiduous ingenuity They have left behind
them ledgers and merchandise and the cares
of the household; and running away from
anxieties petty or potent they are tasting the
bliss of idleness. Being Americans, it is good
for them. 1t viii give them nerves and
stomachs, and God willing, greater length Of
days It will secure energy and easy activity
in the labOrs which are yet before
them. It will improve the digestion,
and consequently it will improve the
temper There is great deal of this respect
able, sensible lazness under all the fuss and
hustle, the dressing and the undressing, the
frivohty and the fashion of crowded Sum
mer hotel 1t is n retreat for Master and Miss
to cOduet in, but for all that wise Matertamllias
and prudent PaterfamiIas, who neither dance
nor dice, are getting solid chunks Of good out
of it. And this, we suspect, is true in general
of what the novelists call fashionable life.
No matter how many silly, brilliant but
terflies may futter through It's frivolous
phases, there is always great company there
of drowsy, drony, honest beetles, and sensible
men and women enough to leaven the whole
lamp of natural and artificial idiots. And why
should we groan and smite our fOreheads be-
cause all our fellow creatures are not wise
Who cares always to be encOunterinS the
learned, the philosophical, the stoical the
cynical, the boOkish! Pray, is there not
a time for everything-for thinking as
deeply as we can, and for indulging in
a good, solitary season OF shallowness
Human happiness is not so common thing
that we can afford to miss good chances of
Selling it. Rest is so necessary that we must
not find fault with it, though it should seem
to degenerate into Incidence. So merry
Summer to all seekers of quiet, to all run
Always from tasks which may have become
torture, to the i'll who go in quest of health
and strength, to the sad who would leave be-
hind them at least the scene of suffcring At
the longest the cool, delicious days of October
are not far off, when once more we shall
breathe the air of Paradise and catch in the
parti-colored forest glimpse of its sumptuous
glores Welcome the Summer of relaxation
the Autumn of refrigeration, and the Winter