Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-08-13
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FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 10, 1878.
THE QUIET SUMMER RESOBTS.@
The summering; W the large Virginia
watering places this season has, not been
inc visitors-vis1tors.. return soon dur
iHg the CURRENCY contraction are
rather discouraging in one sense of the
word.t The proprietors are enterprising
meii and have made extensive preparations
for good. season, and their losses vex all
of us who wish them well, besides being "a
material loss to our section of the State.
But we aregglad to know thatgweA have
some compensation in the changed state
of affairs. While. the larger watering
places have been rather scantly patronized
the smaller and quieter ones, in which
the season is spent SO much more profit
ably to the visitors, have been fuller than
ever before. Striblingi Springs, Millboro
Springs, Cold Sulphur Springs, Goshen,
Mountain Top and the other summer re-
sorts in tie mountain Of lesser note have
been unusually full and, as we hear, Of most
charming society. Virginia society, since
the war seems, in fact, to be heading that
way, and those who wish to see it have to
frequent this sort of a watering place in
the summer to find it. When a Virginian
wants to see people from abroad he
goes to the large and fashionable" water
ing places in his own State to find them,
but when he wishes to see the people OF
his own State he goes to the quieter places.
The fact is Virginians don't take natural
ly to the style which is inevitable at the
great watering places. Whether it is tina,
they are a backward people, Oh a lazy PEG
pie, which last is most likely, they don'l
seem to think that going through all TIL.
dressing and other requirements Of those
resorts is paid back in the enjoyment tt
which they are deemed q necessary accom-
paniment. Society too since the war has
changed a great deal in style. and Viz
GINA mothers, are. not up with it. They
have neither the courage nor confidence to
dress up their daughters and bundle then
into the fashionable, springs arena fillet
indifferently with honest men, and advel-
turers, and, take, the chances lanc for them
They, no; longer look on, the watering
place, as the best place to get daughter
off at. 70 1t is y more dangerous experiment
than, it was before the war, and it WASH 7
too safe then. About, the worst that cal
happen to them at the more quiet noun
tain hooks is a. Irritation with some party
that is not suitable" and that never hurts
anybody. But even il it did it is something
that can't be helped; if you were to put
boys and girls in a desert cave they would
still firt. Filtration is something that
comes naturally to every clever person, to
whom it is safe, as well as to stupid ones
with whom it is dangerous. It is = gentle
excitement to the mind that like gaming
should never be played at except by, cool
heads and hearts. 1t begets, a franknesSS
that is enjoyable; a semi-c;olnlidence that
is delightful and gives q certAlnty Of q; It
tention that IS, at least desirable. The bit
ter-sweet that accompanys its, its breaking f VI
lasts nobody a. life, time. At home it is
gratuitous and unnecessary. but at thu
watering places it is almost indispensable
1t is, a ,feeting affair which no :. sch
sible man OF woman will give more
weight to than it deserves, and which
sometimes ripens, into something better
and rarely into anything worse. It is, o
should be, exclusively for summer use, be
ing SO much like the summer, and ,whel
the boys and girls get home again shoul'
be forgotten, as it deserves to be, and then f'
you see, nobody''s hurt, But then "
didn't commence this, screed to talk ;abou
Irritation. and, besides, it isn't bscp PM!
in the conductor Of, 4, sedate journal to Ell
dorse it, It ought to be treated i /. like lI, a
our minor ,yicesM77copdePmEnYedf d.. mos NO
heartily and practised with great discretion
the condemnation. to be loudest when on Oh
is caught in the act. This doesn't SCUM
like high moral platform, but, as tn
world goes, it is about rs, high as the ma
jority OF Us generally. get. What we li'
start to say IS that We are lad TO see TIL.
our quiet watering places are SO largely pa
tronized this summer, and TO add that "
are glad to hear they deserve it, 49,
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