New-York tribune., 1876-07-28
orr or rOBN ~ JULY.

OUT or TOBN ~ July.
These last two scorchinc weeks in July have
driven people out of the city literally by hordes.
The maintains, sea beaches, and cheaper farm
resorts swarm with them. The usual lull IN
retail business, in all city social life, tins year
opuroachcs stagnation. The inmates of large,
comfortable houses in town sleep m closets,
eat in crowds, and put up with al KINDS oi
pcrsonal diScomfoIts in their months retreat.
After all. what do they gain 10y il! Ii IS well
worth while 10 ask them what they 90 into
the wilderness to see. In word does 1t pay
to drop business, sacrifice certain amount oi
income. and q larger portion Of ready money
and ccmlor; to take this annual holiday {!
The American, while he cares less for the
almighty dollar in itself than man OF any
other nation, and is less likely to hoard IT,
does choose, rs rule, to estimate pretty
sharply the amount and quality of the good 1t
buy, for him. 1t is time he gaurcd the value
of this Summer holiday, which has almost be-
come a national custom.
There is a large majority of pleasure seek
crs ciowding the hotels and cars thi, morning
To whom it certainly is not worth the money
il costs, There Is the fat fashionable matrdn
ont of town because IL i, the fashion To be ont
of town. The air she bYcathcs in her close
chamber or oycrhcatcd ballroom il not rs
clean ~, that of the house she left behind. The
moral atmosphere is more vulgar and poison
Gus. Her daughters, bellies of Two seasons, VINO
danced the color out of their silow faces last
Winter, dance the flesh of thei. bones under
garipg gas-lghtS, the Thermometer at % a..
The majority of Young girl, 20 home from
their so-call,d rest at f. a.honabic resorts more
sallow. iadcd, and unalluIing than the Spring
found th,m. Then there is their father or
brother who runs down on Saturdays from the
Office or store. who sit, in full dress staring at
the su!f or woods, while hr wakes hot over the
action Of governors of tI" StJcl, Exchange or
thc smiukagc IN w00icns. Among men and
women, gossip, meaningless iiriaton, the
soIdid current Of thought ana worry, remain
absolutely unchanged. The ladies coming
back from their intercourse with mountain
or sea can tell You. facts concerning the
dress or love affairs of people n little
higher than they III the social scale The
men are more apt to have picked up IN
formation concerning the different qualities of
oysters or trout But there has not been II
Il'th III l' Iilltdl Etitl anu f'''H''l' VI VIZ
wear which weighs 50 heavily on Americans as
to make GS nervous wrecks 1t middle age. If
men and women want To rest any member OF
their bodies, especially the BRAN, they must
give il Il totally different occupation from that
which has worn it out. Let the girls row OF
SWIM instead of walt2ing, and the young men
wade into the Suri or mountain streams III
search of mackcrcl or trout, instead Of stand
ing in pla:oOns about the ballroom doors or
before the bar. Fish, ferns, changes of sea
and cloud, doubtless seem TO this class of
human being, patty objects enough; but let
them supply their gigantic intc!!ects with
thoughts for while, and they will
return with increased bodily and mental
strength 10 the making OF matches or the sale
of cotton. Such an effort demands no real love
of Nature, which is not to be expected from
these human beings any more than relish for
Beethoven in useful house dog.
We doubt If even many Of the classes who
profess a keen appreciation OF Nature take
time 10 receive the true meaning Of her mes
sagcs. They sit, sketch -bQSI III hand, and jot
down peculiar Cil, of solitary trees on wind
blown nights, or can give you off hand the
the sunset, or they beat their brains for apt
adcctiycs to cmbody the effect and throw off
Il sonnet for next months magazine. 1t is
not easy for the American TO sit still and re-
cciyc the mighty meanings of sea and parchcd
fields and misty mountain into his soul-mean-
ings which come, as the revelations OF Brahma
to the dcvUut lindoo, only through long pa
ticncc and quiet. The meanings wait for us
to-day as when the Master took Ills disciples
out into the wilderness on among the corn and
running brooks. The green corn waves in the
sun, the brown tidal creeks creep through the
marshes, the sea tells its eternal story, "On
every hight there dwells rcposc.' Let all Of
us who may go out and listen rcyercnt and
silent to the many voices, not one of which is
without its sgniicaion. There is no need that
we should try to daub them on our little can
vases OF cachle them in feeble rhymes. Let