The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-11-18
The Fat Traveller, SchOOlmaster, Middle
Aged Man, Young Girls and Lovers.
ICatskiII Correspondence

Aged Man, Young Girls and Lovers.
lCatskilI Correspondence.
The effect of scenery upon different per
sons is worth the students attention. Let
him take his seat before some recognized
piece of scenery, like that from the
upon those who come to look at it.
The fat traveller who arrives perspiring
seems to appreciate the value of it, lie
removes his hat and mops his forehead,
and looks about with an expression of de-
light in the vastness of the prospect His
eye roves at once over all the states of the
l MON in sight, he seems to weigh the
view in his mind for its size, but he
wastes no time on it He remarks that
that is the scenery for him, and then
abandOns it in search of a cooling drink
Then comes the dominic school
master in n long skirted brOadcloth coat,
a severe man, with half a dozen of his
whole view with the air of imparting in
formation to the young; that is the
Hudson river that is Connecticut, that is
Massachusetts, that is Vermont we are
in New York-it is a gigantic lesson in
geography, and the boys follow him
away as soon as they have learned it.
There, again, is a rather battered
looking middle aged man reclining on the
edge of the cliff-what does he see? a
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Few people are giving to musing on their
past. He enjoys the repose of the land
scape, the faint rattle of wagons or the
clang of the railway train coming up
from four or five miles away, the shadow
of the immense plain, which is marked off
in irregular plats of meadow. and grain,
and woods, the CLEAN of the rivera
monOtonous picture full of variety too
far removed to make distinct impression
Hlo of ryiox hot
but lazy mind
And those two young girls in muslin.
arms around each others waists-no not
exactly young, but young for school
marms too shy for absolute youth
sauntering along the edge of the precipice,
expressing genuine rapture over the pros
pect 1t must be confessed that their fig
ures in silhouette against the sky have an
artistic value. Nobody can tell how much
they really see, but doubtless more than
another couple who have just stepped out
across the platform and stand in an atti-
tude of observation. Pretty soon, how
ever, they are looking at each other, and,
If they get any view at all Of the land
scape, it is as reflected in each others
eyes. There is no landscape in the world
equal to that. if the eyes are pretty-that
is. if they reflect well.
Are those lovers on a wedding tour?
How charming the scenery is to them
She is sitting down now on a rock, pull
ing to pieces wild azalea, with her eyes
downcast, and he, seated on a rock at her
feet, is looking up at her. Talk about
seeing four states at once, and a hundred
villages, and the Hudson river This
young gentleman sees the whole world;
and the charming girl who has entangled
him with her long eyelashes knows it as
well as he does This is an appreciation
of scenery that goes to the heart. They
never will forget this view all their lives.
If the young lady is asked to describe it
when she goes home she will not be able
to make half as good description of it
saw and felt! The fat man carried away
with him map. but this girl-Heaven be
kind to her!-has gone away with a piece
of scenery in her heart that all mankind
desire. and that life would be very poor
without