New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-24

| ant pronunciation of that blessed word Mesopo-
| tamia' Here also may be heard at meeting houses
the peculiar nasal melody Of the negro whose voice
with its engaging witcnery prolonged beyond
white folks notes and gives It's owner notice and
| certain voodoo authority Here you may what
| you have supposed dead in this age-thc sincere
ecstasy of piety the superna trance upon the coun
! tenance, drawn from CONCENTRATIONS of God and
eternity. Religion as social element is too much
| overlooked in secular newspapers; it is still the
overpowering life of this country though scarcely
aggressive. 1t is the principal element OF American
wealth. being the main engine of thrift, temper
ance, wedlock, the census utility and education.
All those rich cotagers at Long Branch if you look
into their past, seeded in religious discipline.
Matrimony becomes the early recourse of an ahsti-
nent society, and good habits are taken faith
so much capital. Here the mechanic is still Mt Il
social premium. where the broker lawyer and
fnancicr are not unsupported. And where does
| exist higher standard of man than the carpenter
and builder even nowY He is the only author III
America whose works sell. At these moral cities the
only difference between worldly people is "A certain
| pallor of skin and general absence of fat folks.
One OF the sacrifices of real estate at Long Branch
was that of United States Senator John +. Jones,
who paid 500, 900 for piece of ground 200 feet by
GOO and more the ocean bluff in or about 1873.
| 1t is said to have cost him $4,000 in all, with
taxes improvements, etc. 1t was sold for 10000
to Mr. Cnting a year or ago. bat would now
| bring nearly its original cost.
| SOCIAL OBSERVATIONS.
The principal lesson of this rise of property the
returning tendency to country life. The village
carts, box wagons, coupes etc. in such variety
at Long Branch belong overwhelmingly to the
cottagcrS. Tho price of keeping pair of horses at
| the hotel stables is $50 month.
The Long Branch pier has been of doubtful value
to the place except as competing agency to living
freight 1t is rather injury the hotels nearest
| it, and has made property furthest away from it
| appreciate the more.
| Life in the surf is pretty but rather tanc here
owing to the attempt of so-callcd fashion to pro-
scribe bathing for the present rather vulgar.
| One would think from the very imperfect figures
and feet on the beach that fashion i'll this case
was too much Interested pcnnsylyanians and
| Western people show tC most advantage in bathing
dress, being since he decline of Conlling the only
remaining forms of " StalwartiSm." In Tcnnsy-
| vania the fine horse like proportions and German
| frames delight in parti-coorcd gaily trimmed
| dresses, of red and blue Stockings rather fall
! ing out of favor and the feet only cncaScd in
! low sandal, even that being sometimes discarded
The arms often bare, English STYLE to the arm
pit, mild protest of fine arms against sleeves in
! the draWmg-room. The beach about the West
! Ed and Rowland Hotels has been much improved
| by building and pilingS. and is as safe and
| sandy and as farslopng Cape May Concy
| Island.
Shops are springinG up even at the West End
where now there are drug. confectionery. fruit, mil
liucry and drcSSmakcrs places Hotels grow
ing in number up Monmouth Beach way. rather
| than down toward Murray Hill"
VARANpA CrT-CIItT.
Conversation here is not aggressive and there is
need of picturesque takers like the Hon. Ben amin
! Brewster. whose latest views about rs follows:
Sometimes | favor limiting by law the amount
of money Il man shall leave his SONS Twenty
thousand dollars apicc, is plenty for them. Above
| that 1t might proGtably cSchcat TO the State The
consequence would bc that rich would do good
while they live with their enormous profits. Ii is
common t. near boys educated 10y bounty To begin
! the battle Of life say. Oh. think ought TO have
been a rich mans som Look around you ut the
young women IN the hotel. In every pair of ears is
pair oi bag diamonds, the aggregate being right
here many diamonds palace contains. Yet
| nothing seems to accompany the diamonds but
novel. You STE nobody reading any thing but that
| \ young woman IN big diamonds hearing men
ton Franklin yesterday. said, 'Mr. Brewster, who
franklin lie the inventor of printing
was he noty Yes. dear said, of printing and
Of thunder and lightning She said: 'Oh. thank
YOU" and never knew il a reflections upon her.
| Now, her mother would have known who rankin
Was"
Sitting by hotel window here few days ago, a
stranger counted the ordinations " lovely" and
horrid on tie piazza outside. First, what WAS
hoIrd
| " | think Jersey is horrld"
" Brooklyn is horudW
| "Asbury Park is hordw
| "'Ihc Catskills is horridw
"Niagara Fails is horridp
"'Ihc West is horr!dn
| "Scotland is houidN
| Z" Gcrmany is horrdi'
| "Ncw England is horridr
| " philalclphla is horid'
| " Bashi illness is horrd ~
"1hc country is horrid'
| walking is hord"
| " Learned people is horridW
| d" Drawing is horrid I"
| d" Fiat heels is horrdw
"CmlS is horrid'
| " Buck hoards is horridwi
| "Canada is horIid"
| "Long Island is horridw
! "Marlhas Vineyard is horril"
| "Thc Allcghancs is houid"
| "Crabbmg Is horridW
| Next followed the list of things perfect;
"Wcst Point i, lovey.7
| " Bangs is lovely"
"Yachts are perfectly loyely.'
:" brokers are lOycly'
| BiSQuc is lovcly'
" -Four in hand is lovcly.'
| "Ihc Mascot is loycly.'
"Gray hair is lovcly.'
| Long finger nails il ovcly'
| Green stockings IS lovcly.'
"SIll mitts is l0Ncly.'
"The corn cutter is lovcly.'
| GAN black is lovcy.'
| Donkcys is lovcly'
! To this ] may add that the bicycle is horIl an
! the hicVClcr is in danger OF hciur lillcI pi,c,l.