The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-01-25

comes soothing, velvetY and a5ree-
able. By some these waters are re-
garded as the actual Fountain of
Youth; the universal solvent, the
elixir Of life; the certain panacea for
all the ills to which flesh is heir, and
the half-stifled bather almost expects
to hold sweet converse with the
Shades OF Galen and Hippocrates, of
Chiron and Apollo, of Aesculapius
and Hygeia and all the rest Of them.
Five minutes is the usual time to
remain in this natural teapot. You
can have cold shower bath upon
emerging, if you like. The water
constantly boi!s up under your feet,
in moderate quantities. and is carried
off by an overflow pipe at the top Of
the wal so that the water is always
fresh and clean. This Spring has
long been purse Of Fortnnatus to
its lucky owners, who claim for it
marvellous curative properties, hold
ing that it is not the parboiling alone
that "ministers to the mind diseas-
sorro w"-makes the lame to jump
and the halt to dance e-nut that the
nappv mingling Of certain occult
chemicals effects these wonderful
transformations.
Although quiet invalid reDoses
here and there about the pretty lawn,
by far the largest number Of the six
or seven handred sojourners here are
robust, gay. and happy revelers s,seek-
ing novelty. pleasure and some way
to kill time. The ladies, as is usual
at these places, predoninatein in num-
bers, over the opposite sex, and seem
to live rather listiess life during
the day, but like the mocking bird
and the nightingale come out strong
after the day is done. Night brings
out our Southern women, as we'll as
the stars, to the best advantage
The ball roO.l mig htly presents gay
and festive scene. where time killing
is carried on after the most approved
fashion until the midnight constella-
lions look down in wonder from their
momenuary resting place in the
Zenith.
The fe ninine toilet at these Springs
is not carried to tn at painful degree
Of elegance to that elaborate super
huity of ruffies and furbelows, that
furnish the pens of correspondents
at Eastern watering places an endless
topic. However, the ladies dress
very tastefully, and always look as
fresh and charming as the beautiful
surroundings of this pleasant resort.
The next gavest place after the
ballroom is the dining-room during
meals. About two hundred are seat
ed at olce, AMI, as it takes provok-
ingly long time to get waited on, you
have ample opportunity to exercise
your power of observation. and study
human nature.
just under the dininy-room seems
to be another attractive rends zvous
the most popular of all, if one may
judge from the constant stream Of
fellows passing down, care fully re-
moving their qnids on entering and
wlping their lips as they reappear.
Sitting near this nv sterious entrance,
from time to time strange. soothing.
clinking and jingling liquid like mel
Ody is borne upon ones ears,and the
lazed listener catches fragments OF
some such cabalistic sentences as
these Sugar and nutmeg in mine,
please:' - II want mine sour with
plenty of ice - mo, 1 thank you, too
ilot-peach and honey will do me;
did you say mint juleps for six p
:'>ome moonshine, crooked, if von
have it, Did any body say apple
jack o.
And so they coutinue to ring the
changes in this heathen dialect till
the unsophisticated hearer thinks he
IS dreaming along with Rip Van
Wrinkle in the Ear off Katskills.
Numerous points of interest in the
vicinity, good roads. and the best OF
saddle horses tempt frequent horse
back ri les. The object most visited
is ''Paint Rock,'' a rugged cliff one
hundred and fifty feet high.six miles
from the Springs. It is propably
called Paint Rock" because there
is no paint on it. Of course this
place has Lovers Leap''-no well
regulated resort would be without
one.
AS much as we might desire to
write, for our pen IS just getting linn
ber, there must be limit; and this
letter has already reached the limit
we could ask you to insert, therefore
we must stop, but we ask you to bear
only for one or two generalities. as
we have finished Zone day among the
Mountains" A few words in refer
ence to the general mountain table.
AS general thing they groan with
goodthings that would have quite won
the heart Of DR.. johnson and set + al
staff singing peans Of joy. The Noun
tain honey, pure and undefiled with
glucose ;the ambrosial tter.innocent
of margarine, the thick cream. whose
golden currents are interrupted by
''evii communications; the tea and
coffee, which are nectars SURPRISING
those handed around the Olympian
table bv Canymede the pies such as