Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-18
Correspondence of the Herald.l
From Newport.
SEPTEMBER AT NEWPORT, AND THE JOYS
IT AFFORDS THE soJoURNEE THERE.
NEWPORT, r. l., Sept. ID.

NEWPORT, r. l., Sept. 13.
September is becoming a favorite
month with pleasure seekers, and each
year witnesses an increasing number of
visitors at all the principal places of
fashionable resort. The White Hills,
Niagara and Saratoga, have hardly had
parallel September to this present
month, and the hotels will probably be
delayed in closing somewhat beyond the
usual time of closing. OF course New
port takes the lead in this matter of fall
| seasons. Don't leave an elegant house
Just because it has become the style for
hotel boarders to pack their trunks the
first day of autumn. But rather most
of the cottagers remain till the first of
October, enjoying the delicious air and
heightening beauties oft autumn by day
and of at night gathering round the
evening lamp to indulge their social
proclivities trifie.
The most delightful drive l ever took
in Newport occurred yesterday morn
ing. The air was Just bright enough to
make the herses feel "fust rate" as the
driver said, and away we went, the
wheels spinning down the avenue like
domesticated pegtops. Above us arched
the great elms and naples, whose decay
ing foliage wet with the melting frost
glistened in the most approved style.
From the distance there came to us the
countless laughter of the many rippled
ocean, with an occasional loud ''haw,
haw,' as some extraordinary wave roll
ed in. The mist was rolling itself up
and rapidly retreating before the beams
of the rising sun. We were in excellant
spirits, feeling just like the horses ''fust
rate" Here we stopped to admire a
fine load of recently harvested corn,
again to relieve an OK of big pumpkin
through which he had run his clumsy
foot and which was hanging around his
knee like sore leg, and still again we
halted to crave cup of fresh apple
| juice which is quite plentiful commod-
| ity in Rhode Island. | know it is wick
| ed to drink new cider but the tempta-
| ton was too great.
We came back from the ride feeling
| like new men. That odious, jaundice
look which settles around one after a
few days of indoor labor, that miser-
able, jaundice feeling which nine meals
of fried potatoes and the like beget, that
feeling of languor just as if one doesn't
care if the world stops wagging any
time, all these things were forgotten.
We astonished John, the waiter, by eat
ing good square meal; then we aston
| ished our wives who were forced to ex-
claim that we looked as young as ever
| finally we astonished ourselves by the
avidity with which we seized upon our
various work and the rapidity with
which it progressed. Now is the time
for the richest of all things Newport So
ciety. For the next six weeks there will
be no end of parties and literary circles
and private terpsichorean exhibitions.
1t is a real satisfaction TO be in Q town
where there is something so genuine as
Newport society. One sees so much of 4
slioddy aristocracy everywhere, with
clothes and greenbacks and nothing be-
hind them, it is a great treat to come
here for here are the most cultivated
people of the land, from New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and everywhere
else, men and women who have attained
to reputation in art and literature, and
in all manner of public lives who have
been accustomed 10 society all their
days and are capable of behaving with
propriety and even excellence anywhere
In the fashionable world. TIBER.