Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-17
DAWSON.
DAWSON, KY, July s, 'S5.

INT question that arises,
Upon these bright and jolly days,
Is where is the best of places
To spend the summer holidays?'
Having been dissipating too much
during the past winter and spring
my health suffered from it, and find
ing myselfin the clutches of that terri
bic old fellow, General Debility, my
physician ordered me Immediately
to Dawson. Dawson! said in de-
risiVn, l had sooner stay at home and
die than 90 to the Springs for my
health-and in my minds eye l saw
myself sitting in row on the piazza
of the hotel exchanging symptoms
with the rest of the dyspeptic look
ing crowd-truly | thought, "Every
prospect displeases and man is vilel
than ever"
Then, too, l had been told that the
celebrated Dawson water was sim.
ply medicine, that it was mauufactur.
ed in great quantities, and was
pumped up in imitation of a well
that man was kept inside of the
spring house, who pumped it out by
the glass-full and only he knew
where or how it came.
was violently prejudiced against
the place, but Ego" they said and
finally l came-shall 1 add-was Goa.
quered.
Instead of finding a doleful, de.
jected, cadaverous looking set, l saw
bright, happy faces, sparkling eyes
heard gay laughter and pleasant sal
utations and on my arrival was takel
in, as to home. No one seemed sick
1 did not hear single complaint OF
relation of Affections.
Then the water is not manufacture
ed, was in time to see them change
the pumps, and investigated the mat
ter for myself, everyone pumps fol
himself and can get glass or bar
relfull the water is not at all unpleas
ant and now l am glad that came.
Dawson is situated Immediately
upon the Chesapeake Il Southwest.
ern r. r., and is a small village O
about two hundred houses, princi
pally hotels, some of which arr
Quinn House, the Robertson, Burnett
Summit House and Arcadia, the lat
ter is the first hotel of the place anC
with this celebrated chalybeate water
is owned by the Arcadia Company
The building is new and neatly fur
nished, with a capacity for accommo
dating over hundred guests.
Nature may have done little fol
Dawson in the way of beauty, bu
the Co. has done a great deal and il
few years they will make this ole
field blossom like rose.
The Arcadia is managed by j. w
Pritchett, assisted by his charmin.
wife. Everything that can be dOnC
for the comfort and pleasure of thei
guests is done by these most accom-
modating hosts, aided in no small
degree by their affable clerk, Mr.
Hop IIoleman. Always at place
of this kind there is one topic of gen
eral absorbing interest, the fare,
think that they set the best table o
any place of the kind that / ever Wis
tied.
Mr.. Pritchett goes three times {
week to Paducah, where he gets al
that is best IN the market, both fruit!
and vegetables the bread, coffee and
meats are well cooked and the milk
is honest unadulterated milk, which
cannot be said of all milk.
The new ballroom is completed
and we have a band of Italian harp.
ers, who discourse sweet music
morning, noon and night. While
eating, sleeping and dancing we lis.
ten to this exquisite melody, and the
music is to me one of the chief pleas
urcs Of the place, though with so
many different amusements no one
need be lonesome or dull, even the
invalids would be interested in
watching the others. Some are en-
gagged in rowing, fishing, talking,
playing croquet, and dancing, Others
read, write, sew, CROCHET and, yes
tlirt little, while all manage to
drink a great deal, Notwithstanding
the prohibition law-but then il is
drink that "Stimulates but does
not inebriate." One novel amusement
was originated this week by two am
ateur artists; a bald headed young
man of Princeton, KY, was deplor-
ing the fact of his never having been
able to get any one to paint spider
upon his head, to protect him from
the flies.
The girls asked if he really meant
it, and he not knowing that they
could and would take him at his
word, vowed that he longed for a
spider. He was astonished but could
say nothing when the paint box was
brought and Hop Holeman held him
while tarantula was painted in In
dia ink, that would have been con-
sidered prize in any geological gar
den. Now we bald headed bachelors
who are troubled by the flies, fly to
Dawson and be painted, nothing like
it, little paint, patience and var
nish will render you comfortable fol-
the summer.
Tomorrow, Mr.. Atkinson will
send up another boat, a set of Lawn
Tennis, and some riding horses, and
we will have a still greater variety
of amusements. This morning we
found that an itinerant photographer
had like thief in the night pitched
his tent among us, and he is to-day,
busy taking the photos and "tin
types" of the "pretty ones"
One feature of this summer resort
which will be yet another attraction
to ay-at-home-ladies is that there
is not much fine dressing; very few
people have an ambition to clothe
themselves in fine raiment, some
three or four times a day, when the
mercury occupies the extreme north
ern end of the thermometer
In the mornings the ladies
dress in neat ginghams, sat
teens, cool lawns and seersuckers
after dinner that ugly but exceed.
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