The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-11

Rodgers having to depend for its boldcst re.
lief upon the glazing background of red
/ brick wall but such is life and business.
I Yesterday commenced the long.talked OF
Sacngerfest. We have not seen the inside OF
! the new Music Hall, and can give only an in.
different description Of the appearance of the
i city. There are flags everywhere; ones only
wonder Is where so many flags came from
! the lead, and float from every available place
where II flag can be hung; these alternate IN
many places with the merchant flag of the
Fathcrand, which looks solid and phIcgmatic
enough The city hall looks as though a
flock OF small birds had alighted upon it in
the quantity OF minute flags with which it is
bcdcckcd. There are German notices pend
ant across many of the streets, and German
faces broadening INTO smiles everywhere. All
hope, it Is supposed, TO profit by this influx Of
VISITORS even wary Hans Iummel, who adj
vcrtscs lager beer cheaper by the barrel than
any other vcndcr IN the city, and even offers
to make trades of the same for property out Of
town, expecting, perhaps, some thirsty Esau
will Inc willing 70 rive away his brtbright for
Il glass of beer.
The people of Detroit have been surtctcd,
one might say, if such thing were possible
with excursions tins summcr.-dally cXcur-
sions, weekly excursions, hourly excursions
With small means and much leisure one NAV
drink the cup Of happiness to the dregs in our
city. The lovely Detroit river laughs nvit-
irgly wherever brick walls part or streets open
the way TO It's bright bosom: steamers run up
and down. steamers run back and forth, and
who can resist an hour on tleir open decks?
"Thc world forgetting" though the trip may
not be more than two miles long, still it Is SUI
ficicnt to blow few cobwebs from the BRAIN
We enioycd moonlight excursion on the riv-
cr Il few evenings since. Moonlight? 1t was
no, even STARLIGHT but darkness which might
he "rnlt" However, il was advertised as a
MOONLIGHT excursion. and rs such we accepted
II. believing whatever was "in print" must be
true the excursion went off mcrrily. though
in spite of the moons absence, with chatting
lirting, and countless other accessories neccs
sarv 10 ,hc perfection of an evening on the wa
fer Thny danced of course. everybody dances
ON ilc wafer in the egeuinr whenever there
is tbr shadow of a chapce,-even Sunday
schools when they 90 not happcn to be of the
s,rictest sect and this was En,sconalIan sol
they danced and danced clidcs and onadrilIes
ouodrllIes and gIides in endless variety. but
glides mos, OF all. What would our grand. |
mothers. who knew nothing more intoxicating
than the stately measures of the minuet have
Thought had they been suddenly translated 10 |
tins nineteenth century steamer deck. where
the thunderings of Sinai @. "Pentecost" Dr)
would have little effect upon these GOOD bows
and girls Of eighteen and twenty when the
most entrancInr music WAS woolnr them to
nerl their con,hbrjum IN the dIstractinc
mazes Of a fashionable dance The Glide
seems a graceful enourh niece of mechanism
when graceful creatures follow IFS intricate
winnings trained and per(ectcd in the poetry
of motion. But o. mos, Iamentable SIGHT,
when two who are DIVING to embrace one ar
other to the rbythm,c pulsation of the viol or
bassoon and with no knowIedpe Of dancinc
cvrate ,broupb the room like "stronge birds
upoh ioiciSh ooast' vi pats III d IShtcu
room. Shade of the first perfect thought of
The Creator christened woman" What