Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-23
LONDON LETTER.

~ lew SuOEt Weeks ulOlo VI IESIlcSS |
pleasuring, and we shall be face to
face with the end of the London sea-
son and the inevitable London au-
tumn holiday. When the Universe
ties have met on the famous cricket
grounds at Lords and Elton has been
beaten or has defeated Harrow, we
will surely see the beginning of the
end. All that can be has been done.
What with racing and coaching, ex-
hibitions and flower shows, promen-
AIDES and parks, society will soon
confess that it has exhausted its pow
er of enjoyment, and will be secretly
longing for rest, or, if not that, ex-
element in some other form. The
smart dresses already show signs of
the fatigue of a busy season. Horse
exercise can no longer supply the
lost roses on healthy cheeks, and
late hours have to be remedied by
tonics. The longest day has come
and gone, already the summer nights
have more darkness in them than
they had week ago; of cold quar-
tiers of lamb, yellow bananas and
monster strawberries, there has been
a suficiency tending to safety; and
on all sides there appears to be a
secret hunger for sea breezes and the
mountain air. We can count on our
our fingers the last throbs of the
feverish pulse of society. Henley
will come with its regatta; the time
for pleasuring and picnics, camping
out by the river, and padding indo-
lently in dreamy fashion upon
noiseless stream than, more for the
sake of sea air than anything else,
Brighton and Bognor, Littlehampton
and Worthing will be invaded by
those who attended the races at
Goodwood Park next come the re-
gattas, at Cowes and Ryde; and
lastly "Finis" and the end of the
social chapter. The house of COM
mons may linger on, kept back until
it has completed its tasks, but moth
ing will detain the gay world IN Lon
don when the long vacation has set
in, when hospitality is exhausted,
and the learned professions have shut
up their books, and "'sported their
oaks" 1t is not too early then, to
cast the eye carelessly over the holi-
day haunts and to speculate on the
probability of fine weather outside
the limits of these delightful islands.
AS each autumn approaches, it be-
comes more and more clear that the
restless spirit of the tourist is almost
uncomfortable. People do far more
in month now than once on a time
they ever dreamed of doing. The
old beaten paths of Switzerland, the
Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee, the
Cathedral towns of Belgium and
France are voted slow and old-fash-
toned. There is no knowing what an
energetic constitution cannot do dur
ing a month or six weeks. 1t is use
less to say that New York is simply
unbearable in July and August, for
the determined sight-seer will now-a-
days put himself on board an Allan
tic steamer and risk sunstroke for
the sake of the sea voyage and the
change that each new country gives.
Quite immaterial is it that the sum-
mer is not the most fitting time to
visit Italy, when it is to thousands
the only possible opportu nifty for
viewing Venice, idling at Naples, OF
exploring Pompeii. The En- glish-
man abroad is; as rule, content to
take the rough with the smooth, on
the sole con dition that the weather is
fine enough to enable him to get
about. The canals at Venice ma
be evil-smelllng the Hotel Doomed
at Pompeii swarming with flies; the
streets at Naples as hot as an oven
the Prater at Vienna the only COO
spot, except the covered courtyards
of the delightful hotels; CONSTANT
nople and Cairo may be breeding
| with pestilence, and the Eastern cities
over-ruu with fy-bitten dogs; there
may be so little water on the Danub
that travellers are weary of changing
steamers until they get to the Iro1
Gates; but none of these condition
will he found to hinder the touries
who pursues knowledge and earns ex
perience in the most delightful man
ner in which they can be obtained.