Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15

| pau, alInOugn miles away from st. p
tersburg and Moscow, and the so calle
RussIan baths" of the city aOash tub
Attached to the ladies' bath is han,
some reception room, and twenty pr
vate dressing rooms also private batl
or the same temperature of the mai
oa!n. AS pleasure bath, there is M
thing on the habitable globe comparabl
70 them, and the famous Homburg Q
BADEN Baden sink into Oinsignificancei i
comparison to the Warm Springs. /
proves to be very attractive swimmin
school for lady bathers, and MANY lear
10 swim, but more learn gymnastic feat
and Juggler's tricks, especially whe
they get or the swinging rope. and the
there is sure to be fuss and some ex
traordinary tumbling down ,somersaults
and splashing in the sparkling, translu
cant water. The most expert swimme
here thi1 season proved to be a littl
duck or fourteen summers, Miss Owens
OF Lynchburg. She had good teacheI
In Miss D, also of your city,
Some few years ago young lady dar
ed me to go in swimming with her. bu
L declined. think I hear some of YOU,
gentlemen readers exclaim, swhat /,
fool ~ but l think I was wise. I didn,
want to have all the breath "ducked'
out of me, the young Venus being of fin,
proportions and more expert sWimme
than your correspondent. 1 am alwayi
shy OF mischievous girls when they sing
''Q mother may so out to swim?''
No warm bath can be more healthful OF
more delicious; the water comes bub
bling up like effervescing champagne
about you, and instead of the beautiful
Princess Ilorahyda, you imagine thou
sahd Water-spirits dancing and sporting
about you.
Considering the attractions abroad this
year OF the Paris Exposition, all of the
Virginia watering resorts have done a
very falr husinass, particularly the
w hite sulphur and the Warm Springs.
Indeed, the Warm is crowded every sea-
son, and at some periods it's difficult to
OBTAIN place where to lay your head.
This year these Springs will be kept
open Till DECEMBER, for the accommoda-
tion or the yellow fever refugees, and at
present they are ahead of all others, the
popular little band of music being still
here. and there is Emusic in the air." OF
the most popular pieces, and
Sounds Of revelry by nightu
are heard Issuing from tho ball ROOM
The present year has been no execution
to former seasons, in regard to. the class
OF visitors who resort to the Warm for
health or pleasure. / might recite the
morning roll call, but desiring not to
throw an avalanche Of MSS. into your
Office, and cauGe your good fore
man to tear his hair, and the "devip' to
stand on his head, | will simply confine
myself to designating Senator Bayard's
family, of Delaware Senator Hoar and
family, of Massachusetts; Major General
Melgs, Quartermaster General, u. S. A.,
and family; General Benet, Chief OF
ordnance, U. s. A. and family; Gen,
John 8. Preston and family, South Caro-
lima; Gen. Jubal A. Early, Lynchburg,
va. The two latter named Generals are
still here feasting on vension steaks and
pheasants. 1 fear that Colonel John S.
Mosby, General Longstreet and my yen-
erabie friend, Hon. Alexander II. Ste
phens, will never be able to reconstruct
"Old Jubal," and it's enough 20 make a
modern Zimmerman roar to fancy them
holding 8 payer meeting over "Old
Jube" for his conversion!
Persons coming here may take the
night or morning trains and arrive al
seasonable hours. The day or morning
train, ofcourse, will afford them the best
opportunity for seeing the magnificent
scenery along route unequalled in any
country for grandeur and sublimity
Visitors leaving Lynchburg on the night
train (the only connecting one at Char
lottesville) arrive the next morning be-
fore dinner time; and those leaving Bal
timore by the morning train, via Alex
andria and Gordonsville, arrive at Mill
boro at 3:45 2. NJ, where they take Trot-
ter & Brothers "fy-aways" or four in
hand stage coach and are driven along
the Cowpasture river, past the Blowing
Cove, Bath Alum and over the Warm
Springs Mountain to this place in time
for hot supper and to "swing corners''
with the girls if you are fond of dancing.
But by all means go over the Warm
Springs mountain coming or going, and,
II possible, when you reach the ''Notchn
or gap in the road over the mountains
go up on top OF Flag Rock and you will
behold q scene you will remember as
long as you live, particularly if at sun
set. l recollect coming over here from
Millboro in the stage few years ago
and had as travelling companions
among others-two pretty young ladies
DcaTlUE
and conversation proclaimed them per
sons of good breeding, distinction and O.
extensive travel. | said nothing about
the treat in store for them, until within
q few yards of the gap, when 1 invited
them to come out and get up on top o.
the stage, which they did. AS they as
cended on the top the whole scene o.
grandeur and sublimity flashed upon
thos N =
ed outwright with delight. Their JOY
ty presented to their dilated eyes knew
no bounds, and they screamed, cheeret
and waved their handkerchiefs unit
side. Their enthusiasm fiattered my
pride for the grand Old Dominion. Ye
these Boston girls had stood on top o
snow clad Mount Washington, g4zed in
to the blue Atlantic from the Peaks o1
~ chasm of Vesuvius, without evinc
thusiasm that they did over the scene or
notch. If they were so delighted with
the notch scene, 1 mentally exclaimed
how would it be with them from the toI
VI Il IsOCh hClV ON NAA OCO, va {
clear day, clad in azure, the towering
Peaks of Otter, sirty miles distant; ths
''Bluff" in Amherst, Elliott's Knob, ir
Augusta county, and forty miles off
look over into the Valley of Virginia
and into Hampshire, Monroe and Green
brier counties, in West Virginia, taking
in at one sweep of the eye, te0elue thou
sand square miles of Goods foot-stool y
and presenting an Amphitheatre of deep
deep valleys below, mountain risins
over mountain, one stretching beyond
another, some in conical peaks, other
in soft, wavy lines, and others agaii
broken into fantastic shapes, the sun
beams here and there piercing the fly
ing, dark and golden-tinted clouds-ant
shadows below chasing each other owe
valley and peak, like billowy waves oil
Broad Atantic's teMpestuous breast.
At the sublimity and grandeur of th
majestic landscape presented to the en-
raptured gaze, the mind is lost in rever,
and the soul is led to soar aloft from ma
ture up to Natures God, in wonder an,
admiration at the wonderful and awe
inspiring works of the Master Hand!
But this letter, like all other mundan
affairs, must have an end, and no doub
YOU have wished it st "finisn long age
before I had spoiled the purity an,
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