The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-06-05
Lake Cllautauqua.

New York State is full of lakes and
chains of lakes. with high and sweet
sounding nanes-the best legacy that
the Indian has given the land-but
not one has name more attractive or
moro familiar than Lake Chsutauqua.
In Thousands Of families throughout
the country II is fast becoming the
household word. which suggesis health
and happiness, mental growth and
physical regeneration.
To some ito very name 10 . synonym
ofpurs and perfect delight in the mere
enjoymentaof nature, after being long
housed In tho city ; while to others
Lake Chautauqua means = kind Of
periodic, rursl uuiversity. where they
get supplies of enthusiasm and sus
gestions for mental cultivation, which
carry them round to the next year. To
all who have ever been there It means
rest and refreshment.
There is an increasing appreciation
Of the noed Of change Of climate as
well as relaxation aud rest. This is
especially desirable for the dwellers
in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys,
whose long summers tell on the stout
est constitutions. The consumptive
of New England must 60 10 the Sunny
South, but the resident Of Cincinnati
and this latitude must 60 North. The
true tonic to him comes down from
the Pole. Up in that region is the
labratory where is generated oxygen
and ozone and laughing gas, and, like
the fish, he must rice to respire.
Sitssted in Western New York,
about midway between the Atlantic
coast and the Mississippi River, Lake
ChautauQua is easily reached by the
Inhabitants of the large territory be.
tween these two boundaries. By the
Atlantic aud Great Wester Railroad
it is fifteen or sixteen hours from Chm
cinnati. Lying within seven miles of
Lake Erie, il gets tho fresh, free winds,
laden with moisture aud purified
from miasma aud earth taint, aud
come across the great sytem Of lakes
which make our inland ocean. The
lake is seven hundred and twenty
three feet higher than the surface OF
lake Erie-in fact, the highest navi-
gated water on the continent, being
thirteen hundred feet above the ocean !;
hence the breeze that sweeps its bosom
is alwaya salubri0us and refreshing.
The entire unconv sntionality Of life
on this lake makes one of it's great
social charms. There is gayety for
the pleasure seeker, rest for the inya-
lid, idleness for the overworked.
The bracing atmosphere OF this re-
gion works strange metamorphoses
sometimes. The belle of the ball.
room becomes the winning oar in the
race; the counting house clerk, pale
and attenuated, soon rivals the red
Indian in the hue OF his face and the
makeup of his limbs. .Dyspepsia
gives way, hay fever gives way; aud
appetite and spirits, and flesh and
health, are upon q man before he
knows it. As the physical man re-
news itself. there is sort Of making
over OF the mind, for vast numbers of
people, in the peculiar facilities afford
ed by this unique summer resort. One
may be q month at Lake Chautauqua,
and never know, from personal OBJ
servation, that there is any thing special
going on at Fair Point; but If one
puts oneself within the sphere of DR..
Vincent and his coadjutors, the mind
will begin to send out feelers in every
direction. This 10 . method of growth
alike in the vegetable and animal
Kingdom, and at Chautauqua, sky,
earth and water combine to build up
the man who Yields himself to their
influence.