The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-08-23
HOW CHAPEL HILL
Is Sought by Visitors who Love a Quiet
Place for Summer ImprOvement.
Special Correspondence Of The C.rontclc

Place Tor Summer Improvement.
Special Correspondence Of The Cgrontclc.
| CHAPEL HILL, Aug. 21.-It is conceded
| by nearly every one who visits Chapel
| Hill that it cannot be surpassed in beauty
| by any town III the State. 1t has about
800 quite, peaceful inhabitants, who care
nothing for vulgar show. or frivolous
fashion. They are plain and kind and
| hoSpitable. When strangers come here
in the summer, they show them the col
lege campus, our crowning glory, and
carry them through the laboratories and
museum, and show them the society halls
and libraries. The latter contains the
finest collection of oil portraits to be
| found anywhere in the State. You see
here the portraits of old Revolutionary
! patriots, such as Nathaniel Macon and
VIM. Richardson Davie, with their long
hair and ruffied shirts; you can see the
portrait of Capt Johnston Blakely, gal
liant naval officer of the war Of 1912; and
then you can gaze in admiration on the
fine faces and forms of those two chival-
rous sons of old Carolina-Bryan Grimes
and Johnston Pettigrew. You wander
these old pictures and buildings until you
almost imagine yourself living in the long
ago.
Chapel Hill, as everybody knows, can
not boast of mineral waters; but its free
stone water is the best and purest to be
found anywhere. This has been tested by
chemical analysis. The air is pure,
fruits and vegetables plentiful, quiet
nights for sleep, and abundance Of good
books and charming companions These
are items not to be despised. But we
need more commodious and convenient
hotel and boarding house accommoda-
tions. Organized amuselnents are also
badly needed. When these defects are
supplied, there is no re;Sson why Chapel
Hill should not become a popular sum
NOR resort.
That the advantages of our place are
beginning to be appreciated, the follow
ing list of summer visitors we'll shows
Mrs. DIR. Chas. Duffie, Mrs. Mary Moore,
Mrs. Jones, Miss Jennie Windley, Miss
Gertrude Carraway, New Berne; Mrs.
S c. Waddell, Miss Annie Waddell,
Selma Mrs s. G. Burkhead and family,
New Berne; Mrs. Jos. G.. Brown, Raleigh
Mrs. DR.. Gloss, Miss Annie Blacknall,
Mrs Geo. Tinker, Mrs. Geo. W. Wood
ward and family, Durham; Miss Mamie
Manning, Baltimore; Miss H. E. Brader,
Philadelphia Miss Annie Goodloe, War
renton; Mr.. Richard Burkhead. New
Berne; Mrs. R. s. McRae Raleigh Miss
DIduc, UcOISld, Miss VtOISlc w Ills,
Orange county, Va. Miss Cornelia Philips,
and family, Charleston, S. c.; Miss
Maggie Stewart, Clinton, N c.; Mrs Dr.
r. H. Lewis, Raleigh.
DIR. Nenable, of the University, is also
summering here, in attendance upon his
scientific pea-patch, l. e., observing the
growth of peas under the influence Of
grass and shade. Though the Professor
is buOyant as to the proceeds, the owner
of the land is wondering whence his
fourth is to come. X.
How to Grow Old.
Do you desire to live to good old age {?
If you do, avoid ildleness and seeek
agreeable occupation. Ericsson, the in
ventor, is now eighty-one, and works
sixteen hours a day. Sophocles wrote
over the age of ninety. Goethe died. pen
Ranke has just published another volume
of his Universal History. He will be
eighty-nine in December. Carlyle and En-
ersOn were vigorous at the age of three score
and ten. Oliver Wendell Holiness now
on the verge Of seventy-fve, is still ight
and clipper Longfellow did good work
shortly before his death at seventy-fve,
and Whittier is now seventy-seven. Victor
Hugo is still prodigy, though past the
age of eighty-two Voltaire died at
eighty-four Thierry and Michelet at sew
entysix, Mignet and Guizot at eighty-sev-
Ell. George Bancroft is now eigty-fou
Franklin lived to be eighty-four. Pal
merston was prime minister when he was
eighty-one, and Gladstone is now nearly
seventy-fve. All of these great men
have been hard workers.