The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-08-01
NO. II
Letter From the White.
GREENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
July Goth. 1878.

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July Goth, 1878.
Correspondence VIRGINIAN.]
There are no guides through the great
blue forests of our grand country, and vet
no Swiss views or paintings can surpass
the glory OF the mountain, pass, river and
ravine that keep US spelbound, gazing rap
turously, while the mists, and clouds, and
sky, form an exquisite background to every
varied scene, as the train sweeps along ex-
ulting in the wild grotesqueness OF its route,
and startling the traveller by the sublimity
OF each unrivalled panorama. And now we
are at the wonderful White , and any idea
that description of it could convey would
be totally inadequate to euen shadow its per-
lection. Only rich and wild dream of the
beautiful, or the picture of Paradise our
fancy painted when under the influence of
some thrilling melody, could give slight i'm
agery to what the beau monde is pleased to
call the White. 1t is just the place for the
world weary to find infinite rest just the
Eldarado for the pleasure seekers to drink
The sparkling elixir of life from every pos
StoAS SuP VI haPPiLCoS, Just CitC Cly Sfuiil loI
the day-dreamer with its tangled woods %nl
rich virgin growth of wild trees, their huge
boughs, all moss-draped, the glimpses OF
green distance caught between the branches,
the stiffness, and freshness. and loneliness.
Then the moonlight nights giving wierd fam
tastic beauty to the place with its wide
stretch of green sward shaded by hemlock
and pine; its tiny castles that seem intended
only for Nymph, or Naad-a vision so fair
that it is volume of lovely thoughts with
rapture Of music over it to ms Ike the rhyme
and rhythm of divine poetry 1t is even the
best place for tired business man, where
he can hold converse with the world out be-
yond and not have the care. and heat, tur-
MOL and glare OF city life, and can be in the
vortex of elegant society, or lead the
life of Bohemian. To Northern peo-
pie, it is just the modern idea of the an
cient Eden. 70 Southerners it needs but
the name of Paradise.
Now before the rush aid excitement of
the immense crowd, the place is especially
lovely. There are couples strolling over the
lawns; others, enraptured by the magnii
cent music, are INDUCING In the poetry OF
motion, and revealing in the ''wee sma"
hours that are pulsing with harmony i; the
invalids are resting in their ''cabins'' with
just the echo of the melody for lullaby.
Never before has the White seemed so at
tractive, every thing is just in the most per-
feet order, and there is the most delightful
titan tiop from III tho attochnac
The courtesy of Major E. with his thor
oughbred ''old SCHOOL, manners, so imbncs
one with the idea of culture. that we are
satisfied with the choice of our visiting place,
and it Is especially charming when we rec
ognize old Major w always in the vanguard,
with elegant hospitality, and his delicacy as
a connoisseur OF lovely women. Mr.. E. P.
and S. have a ready response to each query
and helping hand for fun. We are sufficient
ly repaid for any fatigue when we meet the
bright laughing face of Major r. ard hear
his CHEEKY voice IN welcome. Colonel Pey-
ton deserves the gratitude of his friends for
his energetic labor in making this the most
delightful resort in our country veritable
Arcadia. l.. B.