, 1874-10-18
Still Another English Water
ing-P1ace.
Character Of the Observation-Disclosures
Of Babies.
Vulsarity and Roorishness Of a De-
CentIy-Dressed Crowd.


Speefol Corr<tpo71dence gf The Chicago Tribune.
MAnaArR, Sept 20, 1s74.-To Americana,
whose habit it ia to lee away from the sea and
the mountains with the early youth OF the
autumn, hastening citywa1ds aud bome"atds
for the opening Of the public schools the frat
week OF September, letter from an Enshsn
Watering place at this date may seem to come" a
day after the Fair"
But it must be remembered that
THE "sEAsoN"
at English summer-res lasts longer than the
tasLiorably-idyllic seasoo does with us. Here
September breath il infinitely more sweet. and
touches the world with marvelously moro
Of tenderness, than on our western
side OF the sea; here the tToet-A'ng,
with his courtiy retinue Of wind, aud rain, and
autumnal blight comes more icisurely, and
comes moro gently, than he comes to tho eyEles
in the New-Eng1and mountains, or to the popu-
lar resorts aud secluded hooks on our sunset
side Of the glitteriug waters, wEero our people
secx to h,do themselves from the too terVld
pycseuce of the American summer. In England
there 10 not the trauscsndently- lovely period
when summer-almost dead-reyivea to
flush OF color Tint puts to pallld Shame
the glory and radiance OF her primo
tho period when Tyrian dyes fail OF
their splonlor beside our forests; when Italian
skies grow dim compared with the turquoise
lusre OF our leavela, when C!a1de-l1ko at
1nospheres ensphero eyerv v1ex OF land or sen.
when every bit Of landscape and glmpse OF far
reaching vista glows with gorg>ousness Of
hue and tint that proves Nature to work IN
Tisian- Like noods.-tLe peerless period that VIC
call our Indian summer. But. not having TIKI
radiant seasoo, the English climate makes
CERTAIN FA1n CO: -cEss1oSs.
Of later frostB, Of longer vivid green upon
swatd and foliage, Of softer influence IN the
air far on to October. At this present
writing the leaves Of tho trees have not
lost a single tint Of their color, and
scarcely ono has fallen upon the green
yc, dure below. The mornings and evenings are
cool,-not with the crisp, braclng yigor Of chlll
that builds us up in America after the tiaccd aud
neryeless prostration which so often comes In
tie wake OF our intense summer, but with
moist. penetrating coolness. TINT impercoptibly
decpens. u,oment by moment into brilliant
and grateful warmth. like thst Of the sweet
scented, exhilazating noous Of our Indian sum
mer.
For This reason, therefore, as also for thu one
that the English people, with all their &c tting,
have not vet got the wisdom Of our Republican
idea OF popular education. and therefore need
not leave the seaei1e that johnny, and Bobby,
and their sisters may work with fresh viSor III
their seed-time in the public schools. ths, season
at the English wa:cring-places lengthers some-
times even to tho end OF October. All along
the coast, where We have wandered. from one
populous ard fashionable resort to s4cother in
the last two weeks, we have seen tho
MERar CARNIVAL OF FASHION AND dATtTY
~ irsrr4 Rn1f4 Il lno
hut;er and tlaunt with as brave zest as il these
chill mornings and evenings were not bei:in@
each other to weave the summers winding
sheet; snowy equipages dash through the
streets. bearing to and fro artistic creations OF
form and color in dainty costume, as If to-day
were the very blossoru-tme Of the feason. and
not the dying beauty OF the rear children rot
upon the sands with us fresh glee rs II the
world were newborn, and all lts ROYALTY OF love-
Iiness created newly for to-day; e7en the bath
ins % men n and women ply their business, not as
briskly us week or two ago,-for, after all. 1t
must be that many Of the summers butterflies
have fowu although 70 many are s.lll left,-but
still with profit; and the bathers plunge and
sport in tho foamv pillows, ard find tile water
warmer aud the bath moro delightful than when
the bathing machines we're first sent into the
waves, in July.
Americans who have never visited England
always wonder why fashionable London should
maLo its annual hcgira to
BRIGHTON
70 late in tho yeaT. Brighton Is the queen OF
English wate ingr laces. but it does not hold its
court till November, when with Us the bitter
winds are daehing the early SHOWS through the
streets. when the Ekles leaden. and the hoarsa
bi,lows dash and fret upon our rocE-bouud New
England coast. and fird those granite r.cks
desolate in their utter solitude, as IT human life
had never breathed npon them. In November
ve think more Ct our furnaces and Of our gas
bills than We do Of sentimental eaunterings By
moon1it sea; more of our buckThea. cakes and
hot STEAKS than ne do OF pleasant drives for
miles beside cleaning s.lvery , % ocean; an
new winter-eaimcnts than VIC do Of
pretty coque,rics cn hotel-ba1conieB in the filmy
tulIes and vaporous tissues OF evening 6ress.
Brighten. facing the south, holds the warmth
and brilliaucy OF early autumn till Christmas. 1t
ia almost without foliage of any kind; so the
mournfu1 reraemt1ances Of q dead summer, the
dry and colorless leaves, never Etrew its patbR.
Sunehine cnfolds it, and soft sea-zephyrs caress
it. London is hidden in fog, and is oppressive.
not only to eyes aad lungs, but to spirits; go
Brighton rules the fashionable world like
reenaut empress till even Brighton's suueblne
grows pale, and the merry CEristmas-chimes
toll the kneu OF its "season."
MAnGATE-
the watcrlng-p1ace whence write, seems veri-
tab1e tNin-sister Of its Deiehbor, Nams gate.
They are both uron the little Isle Of Thanct.-
Marcate apout miles north Of it's siEt ter-town.
Thoy are sisters. not in Typographical consan-
guinity-for Margate's cliffs are more varied
and pctu, esque, itB ange Of inland scenery more
extensive anu interesting; it's jetty more famous
than any feature Of Ramsgate architecture lts
byways more ancient and Interesting; nnd its
out -look upon the water unobstructcd By aught
more than whitc-wDged vcssel OF q smoking
steamer betwcen 1t and the Arctic Seas. Margatc
and Ranssato resemble each other in tho general
etyle # their dwcI1inga,@s01 er cent Of at1 tue
houst in both -wns, caring, IN gf neral appear
ancc ludubltable proof OF being lodgi.g-louses,
trt,i third n fourth buEnekE-riaC1