New-York tribune., 1881-09-11
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS,

BE SPENI--AN EATRAVAGANT GENEhhIiVN-
CUMULATION OF ABNORMAL FoRrUNEs-roo
UTTER FASHIONS AGE OF GAMBLING
sPECULATING ON THE FOOD AND RhMENr OF
THE WORLD.
Summer is a disturbing influence IN the iamily
scattering it and breaking up Its system ana econ
omy At Christmas and New-fears we 40 not
,eem to be commencing any new course of conduct
though we change all the almanacs and diaries; but
after going away from home two summer months
we meet again around the family board with little
anxiety not unmixed with indifference. All of us
have learned for that interval to live separately
and to some extent selfishly; new elements have
perhaps arisen, ties been made. old understand
ngs are little unsettled former dnties are resumed
monotonously. Life reappears labor, con-
straint. and not till the harness wears again
smoothly and unconscousy do begin to lean
toward each other and love the road for the sake
OF the STALL
CLOSE OF SUMMER.
At the outset of summer spring with alacrity
TO travel excursion and change at the close of
mer with our clothes seedy and our cOal-bin empty,
our carpets and our wall paper shabby and old bills
postponed awaiting the file, we return in
much the condition of first parents when
expelled from Paradise What have we gained
What larger purposes have not been interrupted 7
Are fresh for the winters mOil. OF only more
tagged than at winters endings Have the chill
dren made any progress by leaving all books aud
tasks behind them for two months. or are they not
also more gypsyfed and unsettled. Is rest without
occupation healthy to the mind, the body, or the
hearth In short, can we get nothing better out of
summer than a summer season.
The social advantages of modern summer life
furnish the argument for continuing it. "Nlce'
people have been met, the children have more
confidence, W. have seen the styles and felt tho
world and become more cosmopolitan we have
resisted the unsocial aversion 10 our felowmen in
crowds and become less shy and censorous.
Yet have we as much faith before (which is
also an element of health? Is nature better known
TO and man better acquitted Do women bloom
as spotless in the slime of lifes pond and wave
their lilyhoo6 graceful to The morns Has all we
heard been true. and If half true. we'll for
us to know itY Do we resume the tasks of life
with the same content, confidence and providence,
as when we quilted them for modern summer.
There summer, not many years ago, lived
cheaply, restfully, rehectively, far from these
superficial hosts of hotel life. Our parents sent
their children to the real country upon some
orchard-shaded farm, among the bee, hives and the
young turkeys. We learned how horses fed and
trees were grated how milk-maids MIXED and
hedges were clipped and how meal was ground at
the splatter-docked pond by the old milestone. We
hunted fOur-leafed clover with the buX girl
whose talk on only few themes, never carried an
imputation any other woman. The river was not
SO far but sometimes went there of evenings in
the hay wagon the dearborn; or it might have
been the sea, with its abandoned beaches where
so rarely walked human forms hat they seemed
magDhed in the pale air. aud the wild looms
bathing in the sea watched us Familiarity and crabs
flew to and showed furious in the beach
paddles Never since has the sea bathed our soul
with the same solemnty and deepened so our
faculty of reverence and poetry The shells were
vocal of eternity, the pebbles of hoary times, the
spores and weeds of creation, the surf of the gen.
eratiuns of man. We learned from these without
the conscious purpose of smartly telling it in talk
or an article, for we were humble, unrestess and
alone. An apple then was enough for lunch of
love where greedily break bottle OF
wine and fill our heads with the wanton spirits in
1t. AT night we were abed betimes, and he lrd the
lark sing rise bright resters" where now travel
between the ladies the piazza and the bar or
perchance the poker room. and it seems great
transition.
The stamp of feet never ceases on the soc ial
rialto of the great porch, tho band plays waltzes
ut midday out of the same old strumpet instrument,
the goes neglected for the toilet the shells
seem to be extinct, the hotel doctor is dressing
sore-headed and heart-diseased men at breakfast
hours, the children abuse each others pay schools
or two spotted couples furnish all season s
gossip for the crowd--and this is summer 1t ends
like display of fireworks, with mixed recollections
of gamblers, musicians, horse-jockeys. confidence
men, social parasites, costumes, Stockholders,
powdered hair. and people fighting for piazza
chairs, all going up into the air and memory to-
gether.
Every year it is the same; every summer, cry,
shall be our last yet again GO but praise
God" says many q summer-b beaten heart, " for the
close of this annual family spreew
FIGURES ON SUMMER.
The cost of keping whole family under the con-
ditions 1 have above described was formerly about
ten dollars week, thirty to fifty dollars the
season. Now the typical bill of the same family
is twenty dollars day, per summer
season than our parents lived upon for whole year
and educated their and daughters and kept
a carriage There is hardly any example more
vivid of the increased cost of living consequent
upon new social habit.
The first American of record to go to watering
places was Sir William Johnson the most important
man in New-York State OF in the colonies. He was
the permanent Secretary of the Interior for America
under the King. Being sonsualist and high
liver he fell ill and was carried to the ocean near
the present Pequot House, at New-London Conn.,
and also to Saratoga Springs, where he was the
first white visitor.
General Washington generally went in summer
90 he lower ranges of the Virginia Mountains
about Berkeley Springs, where he occasionally ran
horse fought chicken.
Jefferson, though his home was in a mountain
spur, built himself lodge near the Peaks of Otter
in what the wilderness of Virginia, and
travelled there usually with his own family and
read and rested and worked. lie ascribed his last
illness. an incurable dysentery, to copous use of
he Greenbrier White Sulphur Spring water
Probably the first cottage of any proportions
exclusively for use. to be erected on our
coasts, was that of Commodore Stockton, still
standing at Sea Girt, n. j.; he made the "Trip down
from Trenton in considerable style and entertained