Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-09
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Justice to
THE cool, DELICIOUS NIGHTS
Natures sweet restorer here casts her sweetest
;peils. Almost Under the very shadow of Newport
one is surprised to ana life in this seaside resort
reduced TO It's Simplest civilized form; and the
many toiitng ones who come from the hard strug-
5le Tor actual wants, as well as those who seek
escape from the exactons of fashionable and aris-
aoGratlc society, may well exclaim: "A-la-bama I"
mere we resL!" The summer institute which
Ayasslz founded furnishes intellectual pabulum
aIong the hail we saw through An open door q
young iady ana gentfeman-sole occupants Of The
room-seated side by side deeply absorbed in
scientlnc research, their chairs tilted back and
their feet resting on top OF a table! Verify, " the
world 90 move" and with It the fair SEX The
religious element is catered to here in churches OF
various denominations, besides two camp-meet-
ngS We attended services Ia one OF the latter,
whose eneampment, like wheel within a wheel,
Is situated In the heart OF the town, being indeed
the germ from which the town itself sprung The
sermon was on
GODS METHODS OF ANSWERING PRAYER.
me minister took occasion to refer In bitter terms
to the instance when, in answer to the prayers of
the people, God caused our stricken President to
rally from the very jaws OF death, as 1t were the
physician claimed 1t to have been due to
the stimulants given. Would he have had
the doctor abandon all efforts, and is 1t not tenet
or the cnurch that faith without works Is dead? In
Ihat spIiI OF charity which thinketh no i'll how
much oetter TO believe that people and physicians,
each In their respective modes, did all tn tt lay 10
nnite power toward the accomplishment OF the
same earnestly desired end! The preacher ex-
pressed also much righteous Indignation that no
religious services were held in the Presidents sick
room But did the President request it ? and was
he reluSedf His friends believe him to have been
capable or any sacrifice which he thought the
good OF Others demanded Did he then, as he lay
there IN mortal weakness, fighting the great bat
"A viii oh a
OF nation-a life which he trusted to make
SO uSeiui-di1 he choose rather to join In secret
knew Were being offered INCREASINGLY In his behalf
10y the whole Christian world? We do not find in
me tne peat!Iudes one pronounced on the perpetual
terS OF strife or those who would fain tear open
oii wounds. With so much that was pleasant
IN the little city OF cottages the cdter cannot be
tlassed: IT IS quite disagreeabie, being strongly
NhpreSn2led with iron, it is said, and to which
mllaria patients were told they should not object.
But heroic treatments out of date. No need there
lofe, TO heap up remedies. Sea air and bathing
and sound refreshing sleep should suffice. 1t
would not be surprise ii the ptneyard ceased to
pe ihlShomer In time, and wine, as in Paris,
where The water is eXecrable, should be substi-
tuted for water. The one policeman finds his office
Utmost a slhecure so strict are the morals OF the
thelr homes and furniture for nine months with a
leeilng OF entire security.
NANTUCKET
is but twenty miles off, and IT, as the legend goes
Rhode Island was given to Rhoda, the Eliz lbeth
ISLANDS 10 Elizabeth, Martha the Vineyard, and
Nantucket because she could not do anything
else, she certainly was extremely fortunate after
ALL The town of Nantucket, in the whaling days,
was one of great importance. TWAS, so to speak,
vast lighthouse, whose Illuminating power ex-
tended all around the globe. A new life Is dawn
Ing Tor IT, for 1t Is becoming great health resort
Modern progress has left it almost untouched The
quaint houses, with shingled sides and outlooks on
the roof to eSpy incoming vessels still remain On
these isles OF the sea malaria can no more exist
thln tarantIla Ia the Arctic regions;
put Is so pleasurably eliminated from the system
That qufnia In Comparison Is "nowhere"-or In
other words must hide its diminished head.
The burden gone
OUR H0MEwARD JOURNEY
proved quite as enjoyable the trip, though
had thought that impossible. 1t was varied--so
pleasantly so-a voyage Of several hours to New
Bedford; by rail to Newport; by the SOUND steamer
to New York, and terminating in a few hours Of
railroading With what bound OF Joy / recog-
nized familiar objects! had always thou cht the
Capitol beiutf ul enough to be w0r5hipped, but as
II StoOt out clear ana distinct in the evening light
ltS cnarmS had never appeared so great as on that
evening OF my return. How grand the Avenue
seemed after the narrow streets or Boston. New
YORK, Phfladelphtl and Baltimore. In a word was
In fnood TO See everything in rOSe-co0red light,
Tor though had enjoyed so much all the pleasant
places visited, tAis one had the supreme charm OF
being "HOme-SWeeJ-HOme." S. NJ. II.