The sun., 1882-08-20
CHIT CHAT IN THE MOUNTAINS.
Bits OF Conversation Heard Mt n summer He.
.Ori-lLer OpInIom OF FInt..

sOrt-Her Opinion of Flats.
TANNERsvtLLE IN THE CNrsKtLIs, Aug, Il.
Still another railroad il now pouring womcn
| and children into those dcop valleys. The pro.
portion Of men to women here has lowered 10
about one in six. The women walk with one
| another. dance with one another take one an
other out riding and treat each other to candy
and ice cream. Yesterday l made my way to n
pretty little bower by the side of brook to
study my German lesson. heard through the
foliage OF a clump OF bushes at my side those
words in tones OF liquid melody:
oh. how dear you arc | could eat you all
UP to pieces. And l will lsmackl. will will
tsmackl unless you soemnly promise never to
| love anybody more than you love me-"
| With desire partly to save some young man
from being eaten up. and partly to SEQ who was
the ravenous young woman, coughcd There
was silence and then a noise Of scamperinQ, Al
n turn OF the path below / saw the fugitives-
the Hudson street young lady in short skirts
who told me she liked her novels as soft as
she could get en-" and another 15-year-old
girl from the east side. They have been wrapped
UP in each other for two weeks. Ono connded
to me at the dinner table that she thought love
altogether quito sickening." and both one
evening informed me seriously that boys are
simply too horrld for anything" / have boys
of my own. but sympathizcd with her. for the
remark was prompted by the fact that young
city shaver OF IA had that day shyly presented
a neatly wrapped parcel to ono Of the little
girls. She. after popping under the wrapper
and perceiving an elegant bon-bon box, had
accepted the gift and gone with 1t and four OF
her companions to her ROOM. moment later
blood curdling shriekS rang through the house.
The boys peculiar sense OF humor had led him
to do up toad in an empty box. But the boys
are too busy with donr pistols to waste much
tl1np NJ the nOtpS. one oil the stage drivers
told me, yesterday that in the intense heat dodg.
Tho ladies' spcnd most of their time in the
narlors. 1t is the correct thing to dress three
times day, therefore the published statement
do at Long Branch, where some dress five OF
seven tim, times day, Is wholly false II is said
Branch. and " lady does not really get the bene-
fit OF the air there as she does in spending her
entire Tin time in the parors here In The after
One has new crochet stitch. another q new
device in knitting. and others odd patterns in
embroidery or lace making. Each one reaches
all the others, so. that a young woman who
brings one trick of the needle may carry away
that intcrieres with a free interchange OF views
and exneriences. the married ladies' prefer
The other night the talk turned upon French
flats, and believe discoyered why so many
thousands are willing to iill the 800 So and 81
where the mir and water compose the main diet
and the scenery serves for dessert. The truth
has lived in what is called whole house and
has come to have children and inhabit u fiat
would willingly pnt up with any moderate
ordinary house again, and enjoying the rest
and comfort accompanying the change. One
" Eighteen OF the 20 married women who arc
in this hotel live in flats in the city, and SO do
boarding houses around here. My experience
is, in most respects. that OF the others with
whom have spoken.
iG n and ct II n ra
%ensins NJ @ With viii New New York York asts sold my HSRk kus-
dumb waiter, speaking tube, 9nd, an ash re-
ceiver; My husbands family, had always oc-
farming people WITH foar spare n my IN the
old homestead. Ny husband and l lived in
Brooklyn and Jersey City, with plenty, of room
| his head that he ought to live in the city and
began to covet u door opener and dumb
waiter l got what wanted on Lexington ave-
nuo. near Fifteth street. We pay more money
than we ever paid ior whole house. and have
as whes hg
are caught and Gagged We had TO sign what
the landlord called lease: but what call the
| twenty-nine articles of faith:
mo lettering in the halls standing on the soop,
canary, parrot other bird dog. other beast;
out OF back windows nothing but white eurtains In
or walls s no 10 ne Be H' oa
| or on stairs, and so on.
The landlord might have added no privacy.
living in one H room There is no place for chill;
like that of tho children. seems equally loud in
lighted To air them is impossible. There is
no, yarl and the children must be kept on The
bath, room is too ,near, the living rooms. The
| smells Of the kitchen become the perfume OF
the pgror TRSrs is no place to hsS e to for 9qs;
the hall room must shut off the air from the
others and compel them to 20 from one part Of
have seen flats that are a triHe better ar
ranged | have found no one who, has seen
su "TSs large %s nni bcS Tn
! the biggest room. Moreover. they are tenement
! houses and everything you ever heard against
best flats, The comfort Of knowing as do this
minute hi1 that 4 l 60 uR stairs ana ne down the
hold won't march to and fro, through my roomi
the uuarrcinGs aud cries Of the, servants in all
tho other he's. and, of tho, errand hoys from the
| and better yet. that my children are at pay ~
the grass under the trees, getting health and
strength instead Of learning evil in the citys
| something never Eot in New York Next May
! I,ll haye house il have to 20 to Hunters
TIG,mcn bowl, ,rlay billiards drink beer and
Thn Thoy M III S MSn cy q 'S in hc hm} p 81 9GIS tb
night is is GciightIui, ,WRenever the clerk Of t6s
to say: What was TINT? \ mosuuito5 Pshnw!
great curiosity up here" Mr.. Moscr, a New
| York grain dealer brought some trout to The
hotel the other day. He said he caught them
! two and a half miles from here, ! am told that
an old hotel proprietor who has been twenty
| years in the mountain walked long distance
TO see them, md Il farmer from tho foot Of
| Round Top said he saw some nsh that looked
! just like them in Fulton Market the last time
| he was in the city.
Is She n Model Woman or Is She n Fooli