The clarion., 1885-09-23
seen FRY.
Summer Scenery Commercially and 4Es-
theticalIy Considered.


Summer scenery Commercially and 1Es-
theticalIy Considered.
This has been. OF the whole, very |
good season for scenery 1t has |
varied in price from two dollars and
half day for quiet article to five dol
lars for the broadest and best 4 re-
sort with "a full line of scenery" is. of
course, expensive; that is. one that
combines mountains, valleys. water,
hamlets, rocks, cascades, islands, wa
ter-falls. 1t is difficult to define exact
ly what scenery is in the popular mind.
but all are agreed that it is an article
one must go away from home to get.
1t seems to be the general notion that
it is a view, and with many the word
means q wide and distant prospect
The commercial gentleman who was
looking off from the platform of the
Kaaterskill House, and remarked that
it was the best place for scenery he
knew, came very close to good popu-
lar definition. With him it was large
prospect. The idle traveller is often
asked whether he is fond of scenery.
And the question is an embarrassing
one. He may never have thought of it
in that light. He is fond of beefsteak,
perhaps he does not like to confess his
love for things aesthetic The Drawer
met charming girl in the Catskills
who said that she was very fond OF
scenery, and she liked nature too.
Both scenery and nature she would go
a great ways to see, and the inference
was that they couldn't be had at home.
Perhaps scenery in her mind was asso-
ciated with hotel, and number of
! yoang gentlemen in fancy walking cos
tune And, whatever scenery is. there
is no doubt that it is vastly improved
by the presence of young ladies in gay
toilets. In fact, you may take an or
dinary landscape, or a common brook
with twenty-five cent waterfall
that is, fall that it costs quarter of
a dollar to turn on--or piece of open
woods with sunlight flickering on the
| ground and on the boles of the trees, or
| a tree-encircled lake with row-boats,
and introduce the female figure, groups
of girls in those engaging attitudes that
| nature teaches them, or pairs OF lovers
in the pretty self f-consclousness OF
Young affection, and you have what Is
/ probably the best article of scenery In
| the world. Aud yet this sort of thing
| is not that usually recognized as seen
cry.
The effect of scenery upon different
| persons is worth the students atten-
| ton. Let him take his seat before some
recognized piece of scenery" like
that from the Catskill height just spok-
en- of, and watch the effect of it upon
those who come to look at it. The fai
traveller who arrives perspiring seems
to appreciate the value of it. de re-
moves his hat and mops his forehead
and looks about with an expression oi
delight in the vastness of the prospect
His eve roves at once over all the
States of the Union in sight, he seem:
to weigh the view in his mind for it.
size, but he wastes no time on it. de
remarks that that is the scenery fo
him. and then abandons it in search o
a cooling drink. Then comes the dom
, inie scnool-master in a long-skirteC
broadcloth coat, severe man, witt
7 half a dozen of his scholars. lie wave
: : his hand over the whole view with tn
I. air of imparting information to th'
Young: that is the Hudson River, tina
e is Connecticut, that is Massachusetts
that is Vermont. we are III New 1or
l. it is gigantic lesson in geography
and the boys follow him away as 500
Il as they have learned it. There, again
is a rather battered-looking middle
), aged man reclining on the edge of tn
cilff-what does he see? A panoram
), of his life? Probably not. Fewpeopl
are given to musing on their past.
/, enjoys the repose of the landscape, tn
faint rattle of wagons, or the cIang c
1 a railway train coming up from four {
sc I'm shadows TN
immense plain, which is marked of
irregular plots of meadow and graf
and woods, the CLEAN OF the river
= monotouous picture full of variety tC
m far removed to make a distinct in
Il pression-the sort OF view that require
!: nothing but lazy mind. And thes
ie two young girls in muslin, arms aroun
n each others waists-no, not exact
70 young, but young for school-marm
TOO shy for absolute youth-saunterir
along the edge of the precipice, e
pressing genuine rapture over the pro
pect. 1t must be confessed that the
nc figures in silhouette against the 81
have an artistic value. Nobody C;
eo tell how much they really see, b
II, doubtless more than another coup
ea who have just stepped out across t
platform, and stand in an attitude
81, observation. Pretty soon, howev'
they are looking at each other, and
TX they get any view at all of the Ian
scape, it is as reflected in each othe
20. ewes. There is no landscape In
world equal to that, if the eyes s
'm pretty, that is, if they reflect we
ed Are these lovers on wedding tot
How charming the scenery is to the
to She is sitting down now on rock, pt
lid ing to pieces wild azalea. with
ess ewes downcast. and he, seated OIL
ass rock at her feet. is looking up at b
n L Talk about seeing four States at Oh
ing and hundred villages and the Huds
am River! This young gentleman sees
len whole world; and the charming {
led who has entangled him with her lo
'er- eyelashes knows it as well as be dc
we This is an appreciation of scenery t
ity goes to the neart. They never '
me forget this view all their lives. Ii
young lady is asked to describe 1t WI
she goes home, she will not be able
the make half as good a description of
gri- the fat man, but how much more
teen saw and feltl The fat man just carr
The away with him map, but this gi
ing Heaven be kind to her-has gone a'
her with piece of scenery in her h'
The that ali mankind desire, and that
and would be very poor without. We
rob- seen some travellers who say they
pest fer the seashore to scenery. This
,ays mere matter of taste. What the DIR
the er prefers is the eyes of the young
i of that have the power OF transmu
.he everything into beauty Charles 4
and leu Warner, IN Harper's Mdgassne
rob September.
hole
sell The Princess Beatrice.
20 of The Princess Beatrice is tall, IL
I, hairad slendar uirl not at all ike