New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-15
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
.,.,,Nr AMONG THE CATsKILLs.


HERALD OF ENTERPRIsE-A LEGEND OF HE
TOO THE UrT,R AND THE CoNsUMMATE-
s.trDA THE FAIR AND PRANCHEEsI THE BRAVE
THE PICTURED ROCKS or THE cArskiLIs-
"REMINISCENCES or RIP VAN wINKIE
Having been up in the Catskills during the week
q, ;,a.cd me 10 sec how the dressmaker bosses our
fimcs Ladies' starting ont 10 hunt country boaru
went ia tight fitting black greuadine Silks scttlhg
IN the arms like an elastic stocking, and with qua
nond solitaires in their ears big as grains oil c"in
aud with kid gloves butoncd up half way to inc
elbow hut exposing the plumpncss of the arm DC
%.een the glove and the lace and with mar pas
+erod dawn the forehead, and French hceied Doo's
like a tom totum under their insteps mus ureSseu
like an eel in an eelskin, the said eel having swan
lowed n bullfrog. they thanked God That Iadles
eould glow but not pcrspre. Aud so they proceeueu
into the wild solitary mountains dressed exactly
as upon Broadway. even to the httc gold serpeh's
wound around their kid wristiets: two thousand
dollars worth of icwelry and dressmakcr doing tho
GRAND of q blackberry picker. As L saw 'he"
scrambling up drtheaps. walking through uhilh-
;sbcd plastering and shayings smiling IN the agony
of heat and cxertion, and at last coming home
wretehed enough to cry, said to my teiIe s97T VINO
knows great deal about society as she Iikes Idsn-
ion plates and paints old pots:
.Marvantba. why do they dress so foolishf'
..Johuny" SAYS she. they dresses for womeh'-lot
each other, my prodigal boy! And women audcu
Earyantha, is tyrants to women" hey uon
dress for men, then. one bit Maryantha NO
There il hardly n man out of the drygoods uauc
who knows 1.-THE difference between pophh ana
bomhazine But women, out of mems ignorance ny
AZ IN. world of dress and compel each other 10
rarade in IT, They considers it proof OF their nus
fands prosperity Hence. SLOPPY and hali-cas'
society. my john is always full dressed ana PES TO
market to the circus and to the poughleld III ola-
monds and fnery."
"Maryantha" | exclaimed. " in the words OF
Nathan TO David, you're another? Tell me Why
Won ceased 10 be Mary Ann and became suddenly as
it were MaryanthaT Was 1t not IN SiaVish ii''''"-
ton ana fear of other womenT
"Bv no meansw snapped my belle sGur was
,ust;fed bv the decorative art! IT'S medieval
nomenclature and revival. Amy is now Amarahth
and Mary AVN is Maryantha. ave call 1t the pre-
nominal Renaissance Johnny! You wonldh.t nave
the illustrious name of Bouquet spelled bucket
would your
aWcll.p said l. they say the Bucket Shops is
almost az respectable as the Regular Board now
That is where get OF all my sun-iiowcr bouquets
which see the same afternoon slapped on lhe sue
of some Amarantha in the Park. bigger than ler
hat and louder than her parasol." 20 pshaw'' ex-
claimed the lady, "men would have women Ike
their dogs and pigs to be whistlcd for and own no
names at ALL If YOU don't shake up and have some
STYLE about you the posy business viii be picked up
by some moro stunning vagrant. Art iurnituro arr
millinery and art shoe cobbng Will lead TO ART
nosecays and art free lunches. Come out, Old Car
thagenian for the Renaissance
All right. Mary Ann said |, forgetting myself
If there are any sense in OVERRIDING anything aud II
DAVIS here is your Sanucl-here am l
cATsKuL TArrLE.
The Catslil Mountains which the Old Dutch
NV
Okiln of TINT name owe to their elevation and near
ness to WORK and TO Washington lrvmgs tale
of Rim Van Wrinkle almost their entire popularity
Without forests without underground. without
wild animals or numerous birds, or useini OF pecu-
liar minerals or caverns, or lakes, or interesting
native people with few trout or other hsh ana win
little discovcrabe solitude, they vet are the favor
ite mountains of New Workers, and become our sum
mer Brooklyn or lodging camp. There arc nearer
mountains in New-Jersey, but the New-fork Ideaiist
likes not Jersey and regards the Catskills as MS
own Switzerland. The fare is cheap TO go up there
and the highway is the cool Hudson, on which ply
rrobablv moro passenger steamers than on any rVer
IN the world except the Mississippi One dollar
will take the BroOklynite or NEWCOMER 10 any
point on the river. all baggage Included, either 10
Rondout. Saugerties or Catskil Village. % to l54
miles for n cent or less mile. Thence the noun
tains are distant ten to forty miles according 70
humped all together like your cats, whose unevent-
full lives they now suggest. One railroad only runs
into them from the Hudson side. and 1t Is beng
branched to enclose the group the south and west
and also probe il to the centre. The narrow gauge
railroad will be finished to Hunter by July, avoid
ing the staging up the mountain front. But the
METROPOLITAN mountain bird is canary and II
matters little TO him whether he is up on tho noun
tain OF down in the oaields at the base so he can
sing and look at the cat and say to himself: Am
high upi Hows this for picturesque VIII l
sneak to myself when | get back to tho city On
guess notw As the Boston woman flies to North
Conway and small villages on the base of the White
Mountains.-which she calls the Whtcmount Tins,
ne IL they were kind Of pie-tins.-sO the medium
,netropolitan in search of the grand and narrowing,
rrouebes around the bottoms and through the hay
fields and up the gulches of the Catshlis, ana says
~ himself: " Oh natur. how you do come out in
your fxin's aud require nothing but elevator to
distinguish yoursefp
A CHIcKEN-BoSE OP CONTENTION.
The aristocratic hotels. two or three in number,
which prove their superiority by charging several
dollars a day, nearly monopolize the view of the
Uudson Valley from the Catskill shelf, where as
the china image on mantelpiece looks down upon a
dark parlor with more or less inanmatcness, tho
bronze and china people in full dress gaze at the
dark cool fissure o. the river and wonder what 1t
means by looking 50, and how they must talk about
it, IL is legend in the Catsbill Mountains not as
old as Rip Van Wrinkle that viewing the white zone
OF the river stretching around the granite and forest
vesture of the plain, aud from the altitude of two
thousand feet in that purifying air, hotel pro-
prietor and his guest differed on the matter OF
chicken.
No. it was not an eagle, but a chicken. and the
abriling" of the same. Tho guest said the chicken
was improperly briled" "You build hotel Your
self, then' said the proud and scornful host, and