Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-07-21
LETTER from BALTIMORE.
To the CuRoNrcLE:


ly, gayly smiling at the discontinue
her unexpected appearance has caused
The long warm days when all the
suns golden heat seems concentrated
on the brick wall and pavement i'm.
mediately surrounding one, are not
very conducive to success in any un-
dertaking, and especially in literary
effort, but 1t is not my intention to
make an attempt even at correspond
ence, write more from desire to
communicate with that old familiar
friend, the home paper, than that |
have anything of interest to write
What is of half the interest, when one
is away from home, longing for a
sight of the dearly-loved scenes and
dearer faces, as the home paper? Its
columns are more intensely perused,
and especially its local column is more
eagerly. devoured than any thrilling
account of robbery, murder, dynamite
explosions or attempted assassination.
The CHRONICLE was always a welcome
visitor, but now the sight of its famil-
lar face is doubly dear. The noise
the din, the hustle, the ceaseless COM
motion that makes up life in great
city, have not blotted from remem-
brance the vision of my own little
city; its picturesque hills often rise
before me in fancy and awakens a
tender regret for friendships ties
which are none the less strong, be-
cause woven by the frail fingers of
childhood in life's fresh early morning.
Well, summer has come after much
coaxing, and it seems an endless period
OF waiting, (for the season here is quite
month behind), to leave a bloom on
Natures cheek, to touch the parks in
to verdant beauty, WOO the flowers
which brighten their grassy plots into
blooming loveliness, to place sparkle
in the fountain, and to make them the
lovely resorts where it is Il happiness
to stroll in the evening, when twilight,
wrapt in her mystic veil, steals forth,
like young and timid bride with
gentle tread to meet her dark lover
and is lost in nights shadowy embrace.
After a residence OF several months
in Baltimore, find it unsurpassed, as
a city, in many respects, especially its
social qualities, for Baltimore, though
so proud and aristocratic, so naughty
and dignified, is eminently social and
hospitable. Society in Baltimore is
considered rather slow by its neighbor
cities, and would be decidedly so if
compared with any OF our western
towns. Though decidedly tony it is
non-asthetic The male BlltimOrean
seldom affects the duduesque style,
and the female certainly does not be-
long to that school of rose-lipped vir-
gins, who see the abstractedly beautiful
in the easy-go-as-yOu-please either in
manners or dress. They cannot even
be called good type of a girl of the
period. Her lips are unsullied by
slang, no strong or Independent ex-
preston ever mars Tor strengthens
her conversation, her laughter does
not break loudly on the ear, and, l
hope shall not be considered uncom-
but she is rather old
fashioned in her manners and dress.
since the colonial period,
and since the days of the celebrated
beauties, Miss Howard, Misses Eliza
beth Calvert, Isabella Pinkney White
and Madame Jerome Bonaparte, nee
Elizabeth Patterson, has enjoyed a
for feminine beauty. Even
now the Jersey Lilly declares she has
never seen any but pretty girls in the
city, yet the Baltimore
belle of to-day does not deserve the
handed down by her grand
mere. With the degeneration OF years
mas followed the degeneration of beau
", and though her complexion is good
md her eyes bright, and she Is gener-
lily stylish, her handsome foot is
large and her features
decidedly coarse. The Baltimore beau,
though not possessing the renOwn of
MS fair sisters, is remarkably dis |
,ingue, and may be called even hand
some Though not tall his figure is
good, usually slender, 1.-the and grace
.ul. He is exquisitely stylish and |
knows how to dress.
Baltimore, the city of monuments
md quaint churches, is splendidly sit
lated, and though not regularly built,
$ magnificent and beautiful in many
parts, especially in those parts that are
low being built. In the older portions
If the city many of the streets are not |
straight and all are too narrow, yet a
great many of the buildings are of I'M
,ivaled splendor. The hotels are
yrand and the private residences are
unsurpassed for magniticence of struct-
ire and beauty OF design. One of the
OF these is the newly-fin-
shed dwelling of Ross Winham, the
Vcalthiest man in Baltimore. 1t Is
,uilt of red sandstone and cost $3.50
'OO. st. Paul, Calvert and Charles
treet, running parallel, are superbly
,uilt and are each crossed by beautiful
ridges, very long and wide enough
or several carriages to drive abreast,
hey are superb stone structures and
ost immense sums. But the toniest
art OF the city is Mount Vernon
lace" around Washington's monu-
lent. 1t is from these elegant brown
tone and white marble mansions that
he aristocratic mesdames drive out in
heir bandaus with their cOat-Of-arms,
nd hveried cOachmen. Baltimore is
rowing rapidly, increasing i'll size and
opulation every day. 1t has an inn
lcnsc trade, both foreign and do
nestle, and its commercial progress
:, with the exception of New York, as
reat as any city i'll this part of the
ountry.
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