The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-05

comfortable every way to remain in their
own homes where they may hs<e their
own fare prepared according to their
own fancy, retire or get up at such
hoursa they please, dress for dinner, or sit
down to that meal or supper or breakfast
in such deshabille as suits their pleasure
or convenience, enjoy spacious closets
and bureau drawers, and airy sleeping
rooms, instead of living in trunks, in
boxes of rooms that compel the occupant
to go outside to turn round. 1t would,
as we observed above, be folly to argue
against this peculiarly American custom,
therefore we shall not undertake it. But
since fashionable folks have to 60 some
where to be. fashionable and genteel,
we may, perhaps, without rashness dis
cuss the question of where people shall
go to. All along the Atlantic coast pop
ular resorts are springing into favor, and
thousands visit them every season for
sea-bathing and the other pleasures they
afford. Cape May, Atlantic City, Long
Branch, Newport, Nahapt and the thou,
sand and one places of minor import,
ance that have each their friends and
frequenters. Tens if not hundreds
of thousands of people pay exorbitant
prices at most of these for what
generally are wretched accommodations
and very poor service, and still they &c
and pay and we presume are happy.
Some Of these places have nothing unless
possibly their sea bathing, and the crowd
of fashionables to draw these things, and
still they are filled every season with still
larger and larger crowds. Some of these
with their desolate reaches of sand, when
the burning rays of the sun of July and
August lies from 10 till 4 o'clock as hot
and fierch as in the Desert of Sahara, are
anything but comfortable or even tolera
BILE for this portion of the day and theil
drear treeless, shrubless, herbless wastes
are the very picture of destitution, but
people 60 there and fry part Of the
twenty-four hours for the comfortable
breezes and the murmur and GOODNESS Of
the sea during the remainder. Why
should the great Central and Western
States be compelled to rush away to the
coast for their summer pleasure? Why
might we not have them nearer home? and
for that matter why can not we
set about popularizing some Of the
picturesque surroundings within a few
hours ride from Cincinnati. where citi.
zens may send their wives and children
to rest and recuperate among the hills
and trees and pure country air, and yet
not so far away but that they may join
them over Sunday. To the eastward at
and beyond Georgetown we strike re.
gion as picturesque as New England, the
hills are as beautiful, the streams are
as crystalline and the air is as pure
In other directions we find the same
Along the Ohio, if that stream coul(
be depended on for summer navigation
we might open dozen delightful sum
mer resorts that would be accessible
within few hours and at trifing cost, il
some one would set about it in earnest.
Why should not company be formed to
provide accommodations and popularize
some of these undeveloped resorts that
lie in all directions about the city, where
all the advantages Of getting out of town
may be enjoyed by families that need
the change and yet not be wholly beyond
the reach of the protection and society Of
the head of the house when compelled to
remain here by the demands of business'