Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-07-22
summer Resorts and Watering Places.

III particular, ana NelI-to'uO people IN
Eeneral-hke the songsters of spring time
in their annual migrauons--tlocked To
the various noted seaside and other
fashionable resorts III quest of health,
comfort and pleasure; bat too often in
vain, for particularly IN later years, the
Lid-lloyed yet iron-handed dictates of
fashion have transformed these choice
places of Nature, and these seasons of
rest and quiet into hot,beds of fashion
able dissipation, where "Shoddyn holds
high carnival, and the seeds of envy,
vice, and false life are sown, and whe.C
real culture and refinement is elbowed
and overshadowed by the false, and COM
PEELED to seek new resorts for old-time re-
unions Of quiet and enjoyment
Indeed it has become true that such
places AS Saratoga, Newport, Long Branch,
resorts have teen literally seized end
occupied" as a rule, by those or the de-
/ ,cendants of those who became suddenly
enriched by the war,-or speculations
growing out of it--and others possessed
of too easily acquired wealth; and the
whirl and unhealthy eXcitements of so
called high life" have rendered these
heretofore favorite summer resorts too
costly and in almost every way unpro-
ductive of that health, enjoyment and
rest which had made them famous.
But there's never an i'll without n
remedy :" and of late years many of the
4 habituCS of Eastern pleasure resorts and
their successors have joined hands with
the pleasure-Seekers of the West and
South, and have found and are finding
Across the Plains and in the grand
old mountains of COLORADO a new and
vigorous life, more thorough and health
full enjoyment, a more complete and re-
cooperative rest, and stronger hold on de-
cining faculties of body and mind, than
was afforded by those other world-rc-
nowned resorts in their palmiest days
Never before in the history of this
country has the attention of its citizens
been so excited and attracted TO the
Great Western Empire, to the broad
fields, the shadowy valleys, the deep
canons and the sky-piercing SUBMITS of
those grand old hillS-Gods stepping
stones which reach from earth to Heaven
and in whose bosoms lie hidden moro
than the wealth of the nds" Never
before, and nowhere else could the
seekers after health, wealth and pleasure
Join hands in a march towards sunset
with such assurances Of success.
And, among all the delightful resorts
the homes hid away in the mountain
valleys, desirable and beautiful as any in
the shadows of the STORED ALPS, none
are becoming SO widely and iayOrahly
known, both in our own land and abroad,
as beautiful, lovely MANrrOu SPRINGS,
happily and appropriately named Gods
Springs Springs of the Gods y
Here nestled under the cool shadows
Of the mountaius-on the banks Of the
beautiful f0Rtdiae GA B1tHe-in an en-
arald, grass-covered and iioWcI-gemmed
valley, with life and health-giving
springs bubbllng up in silver ripples
from its green sod, is situated that ample,
modern and most elegant hostelIie, the
MANlTOU House., with its generous table
d'hOte, its large and comfortable rooms
wide halls and shady piazzas, bath rooms
hot, cold aud medicated waters, where
the tired and worn out traveller, the in.
valid, and the c,alltf,d man of the world
can all spend weeks Of thorough enjoy
meut, and drink in with every breath the
nygoratlHg yet balmy mountain air, and
with it renewed health md spirits, and
are thus enabled with a stronger grin To
take new mold Oh life
Nowhere else in Colorado or the West
that is SO easy and cheap of access ca
be found as desirable a home in every
sense OF the word, where all the comforts
and Injuries of the best eastern hotes
are reinforced by beautiful walks and
drives, convenient hunting and fishing
and amid the grandest Of Natures works
Here the wearied, worn-out man OF
business viii soon regain more than bis
Old-time health and yigor, and while en-
D. ing the Injuries and comforts so lib.
orally provided by the excellent host and
hostess Of the MANmou, Major and Mrs
BARKER, he can enjoy that perfect rest CT
mind and body SO long a stranger TO him
and still be in hourly telcgrapmc and
daily mail communication with his own
counting room.
Here the ladies and young people car
enjoy the most delightful drives and
rides in the Garden of the Gods over
the broad and elevated meSas, through
the grand and shady canons, or increase
their physical energies in excursions to
the summit Of famous Pixies Peak, from
where can be seen such magnificent
views as are alone worth Il trip from the
sea-board, and while away the hours OF
rest and recreation in social pleasures
in rhe ample parlors of their temporary
homo.
Here the sick and afflicted, with per
feet rest and quiet, with every comfort
about them, quuiiing tic lile-giying VA
tiers and inhaling the healing airs from
the pine-covcred hills, Will be refreshed
as with new wine" and stury-eyrd
hone soon take the place of discourage