The Press., 1885-07-23
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 The springs, and the hotel of which they are appurtenances, are both on the edge of a stage-road, called the upper road, be- tween, New York, Hartford and Boston and to this circumstance they appear to be indebted for many of their wealthier visitors. Among those that resort to them solely for medical relief, the spirit, or per- haps the necessity of fruRality, appears to lead to serious error. They make but a very short stay, and hope, by excessive drinking at the fountain, to render that stay equivalent to a very long one. They take their departure before they shave drank the water long enough to justify them in drinking it freely; and hence there may be reason to fear, that they go away, not only not benefited, but really injured. There are bath-houses on the premises, in which are both warm and cold baths
 There were usually from twenty to thir ty rustic inmates and when the scene was not diversified by the arrival of cits, from Boston or elsewhere, the dinner scene pre- scented only the true rustic manners. All the woman sat together, beginning at the lower end of the table; and all the men together, toward the upper and the only communication between them resulted from the necessity under which the men appeared to labour to be helped by the women. Above all things & man never seemed to think that he could make an in- cision i'll pie crust. I have seen one sit for half an hour with an empty plate, while there was meat pie before him, to which he neither helped himself, nor of fered to help any one else. Being also the last in the line of males, he had line of fI10 l. empty plates, patiently waiting till the gentlemen were served; but this had no effect upon him; to make breach in the pie-crust was impossible. Each individu- al, as soon as he had dined, carried his chair to the wall, and left the room. The women, every one when she had dined, drew away their chairs to the windows. The servants of the house, in conformity with these manners, which are the man. ners Of the country, carried away the table when they carried away the cloth, and drove away loiterers with an army oi brOOms.
 The separation of the sexes prevails, in New England, through all the intercourse of society, even where the condition of life IS many removes from the rustic. On that awful occasion, 6 teo-220rty, all the ladies occupy one side of the room, and all the gentlemen the other; and one consequence is, that the gentlemen talk politics, and the ladies listen in silence for the ladies are rarely politicians 'In monarchies, , says French writer, "the women are everything in republics, nothing"
 As to mans helping himself at table the contrary is practised to degree thai offers to the mind of a stranger the mos ludicrous picture of indolence; it is how ever, only, picture of habit. The sturdi est and grimmest wayfarer, at the poorest inn, is ill this particular waited upon like 9 bashaw, but always by female hand for, if there happens to be no female al his service, then, as the expression is, he may wait upon himself. If he asks fol breakfast or supper, it is not sufficient tc place all the long list of requisite articles upon the table, but female must attend him through his meal, to pour out his tes or coffee, and put milk and sugar into 1t She must also cut him piece of apple-p to eat after his tea-put it upon his plate and, in short, do every thing-but eat it. A good woman, giving me an account of her having gone out one evening with her neighbours, observed, that 'sFor hel part, she had not had the smallest idea oi going, till the very moment before her de. parture but, her neighbours had come, and she had before got the men their vic. tuals, and the men said how she need not stay, for they thought they could wait up. on themselves"
 The evening, at the Springs, were gen. erally spent, by the yonng women, ill sing. ing hymns, of which favourite one was called the Garden Hymn, beginning with
 ''The Lord is to his garden come," &c.
 They sing hymns because they are more familiar with the words and tunes of these than with those of songs; and because they are accustomed to sing them in parts A clergyman happening to come among us, prayers, hymns and chapters in the bi ble were required before breakfast.
 But, this society, as I have intinzAted was sometimes thrown into contrast by the arrival of persons of another mould. One day, there came a lady, who, with hel husband, was travelling to Hartford, hel place of residence. She had an ease anl polish of of~manners, such as might clain distinction, even in scenes where ease anG polish are less uncommon. She staid bu twenty -four hours. When she was gone l was told, but perhaps enormously, tha she had been called the Beauty of Connec ticut. Sickness had now taken in par the roses from her cheek.
 It was here, by some Boston guests, tha an account of His Majesty's frigate, Leop ards attack on the United States frigat, Chesapeake first reached the part of tht country in which I was. Nothing yer, distinct was to be learned upon the sub ject but the Boston reporters of the stor, only made it an occasion to testify thei confidence in the justice and even magnan imity of the British government senti ment that I had afterward the amplest DC casion to hear more widely, though per haps not more warmly expressed.
 From Stafford Springs, proposed pass ing to Providence and to Newport, and af terward to Boston. took the road lead ing through Pomfret, and into the town O Gloucester, in the territory of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, where I re mained till the next morning. In Pom fret, there is cotton-manufactory of some extent and this branch of business is said to thrive in all the neighbouring ter ritory, which was now before me; and where there are said to be at least twenty manufactures. There is one in the west ern vicinity of Providence, and three at Patucket, in the east In Smithfield. there are several, particularly one of three thousand spindles, and in which there is vested capital of hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In all, the machinery is entirely moved by water. Cotton twist is already exported, particularly to Ant werp. The staple coming to the manufac-