Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-23
EXPENSIVE PLEASURES

| The unprecedented health of Memphis
and the cool and bracing atmospere OF the
past month will call a sudden halt in the
tide Of refugees. We do not wish 10 excite
the envy or 10 mar the pleasure of the alb
sent, but we cannot resist the temptation 10
taunt them with the happiness, ease, CON-
fort and health enjoyed by those they have
left al home. Change il essential to the
health of people, and the desire for recrea-
ton at healthful resorts in the mountain re-
treats is growing with such rapidly
in this country that it is likely to result in
| such an extrsvagsnt expenditure Of money
as TO cause much pecuDiary embarrassment
and occasional bankruptcy. The world has
but little idea of the amount annually ex-
pended by summer pleasure-seeking. We
take the following figures from the New
York Post:
Probably no State of the Union makes so much
money out OF its natural attractions as New
Hampshire. The receipts from summer boarders
5,OO0, 900 to 100000 per annum. This interest
has gown up almost entirely within twenty
Is still rapidly increasing from year year. and is
established. not alone in the White Mountain and
Lake Winnepesauke region, and at the beach, but
in every section of the State.
These figures are startling, and the ques-
ton may we'll be asked: Where is this ex-
travagance to end? The poor are often i'm
poverished in trying 10 initiate the expensive
fashionable funerals of the rich, and since
il has become so fashionable 10 stroll over
the country in the summer, the poor will
strive TO initiate the example rather than be
ostracised from fashionable life, and the re-
suit can be readily predicted. The money
spent in New Hampshire, as shown by the
above extract, though surprisingly large, is
but a small fraction of the total. None of
the great watering places are included, nor
the special resorts Of the Southern people.
As we see, this great interest is very new; its
growth has hardly begun. The increase
TO eclipse that OF the past twenty.
The great East is getting more, crowded |
and well-to-do every year, and the summer |
resorts more Inadequate; the number OF
those who desire to make longer and |
stronger flights, and TO more entirely sepa-
rate themselves from the crowd is rapidly |
increasing. The vast region OF the South |
has hardly begun to indulge in summer
iwa rmfug siuoo. she Wal; Init it will quickly
DIN the thropg. Since recreation is desir-
,ble and demand for country air is neces-
Iary to health, and the residents of city
Tearn for retreat safe from the raysges OF
pidemics, there should be more attention
upon country homes. 1t is time
'ur people were beginning to learn that the
Expense of one summer of dissipation will
purchase land enough within few miles of
ur large cities to furnish a perma-
tent home, where every tree we plant may
ecome sacred to our children, and where,
instead of the false habits and extravazant
antics epgendered in the crowded hotels,
he free air and wholesome exercise may
lake our posterity not only healthier, but
lore stable and attached TO the homestead
ian is the present generation. Within
few miles of Memphis good land
IN be bought for a few dollars per
re, and the outlay of three or four
asons spent in the unsatisfactory pleas
70 of our ordinary summer recrea-
onr, will make a country home perfect
den. While others are singing 10 surfeit
e beauties and charms of the mountain
emery, the glorious beauties of the West
n lakes and the grandeur of the seashores
e would recommend that other most besuti-
/ of all summer resoits-the cottage-home |
the forest