The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
SUMNER RESORT ECHOES.
New York Mail and Express.

SUMNER RESORT ECHOES.
New York Mail and Express.
Concerts by the colored walters of the Watch
Hill hotels are said to be attended by the guests
in large numbers. Recreation there mnst be at
very low tide
There is one thing the springs of Sharon can
not do and that is make the bedizened danes
look as if they were fresh and blooming maids
of sweet sixteen.
Artists are at Lake George in almost the usual
numbers. They paint by day, and pass the even
ings endeavoring to make themselves agreeable
to the ladies at the hotels
OF the hundred and odd diners at table d'hote
at the celebrated Clifton House, Niagara Falls.
one day last week, forty-seven were foreigners,
twenty of whom were titled.
The dudes at Saratoga are of the most pro-
nounced and comical kind, and, in the absence Of
a circus or minstrel show, afford the children a
great deal of harmless amusement.
Races at Saratoga began last Saturday and
will be ION" until Aug. % It is guaranteed that
there will be mo less than five races each day"
This is called thoroughbred liberality"
A woman at Saratoga, when she INDUCES in
equestrian exercise, wears sky blue habit and
is followed by three huge dogs, her property.
The display is startling as that often made by
the patent medicine men.
'sWho is that fellow with the black eye. broken
nose and arm in q sling2" asks the stranger at
Newport. Tut. tut" says the native, THAT'S
Mr.. Reginald Ogllvy Algernon Smith, the
greatest poloist of EN- all.
Just what advantage to a bathing costume a
bright sash or scarf tied about the waist ID, the
women thus attired at Long Branch can best ex-
plain. The idea that 1t is worn to attract atten-
ton to the wearer gains currency
1t is an astonishing thing about the Saratoga
papers that all the people they mention as so
prominent" distinguished, etc.. at the hotels,
haas 1ofv fhaxya hay, hat
a lot of hiding there must be in winter.
Even the police at Ocean Grove are believed
to be religious, and whenever they arrest man
suspected of having partaken too freely Of ginger
ale, or DR.. Frauds cough MIXTURE they burst
out singing: IA charge to keep havem
Matters at the Isle of Shoals are fairly lively
but more people would make 1t healthier for the
hotels in financial point of view. This is
where the fiery. intellectually untamed Boston
girl is to be found in all her mental glory.
Unless August increases the business, the
White Mountain hotels will not have phenom-
enaly successful season The bulk of the pa
tronage seems to be monopoized by two or
three Of the long established and best-known
hotels.
South Poland, Me-, has named itself 'the
Saratoga of New England" It has springs that
cure everything, and good hotels, but nothing to
remedy conceit and egotsm, or TO prevent the
natives from too rapidly outgrowing their every
Balston Spa, which in our grandmother dav
was noted resort amounts to very little nova
days, and is visited by people who do not belong
to 'our set" never subscribed to Patriarchs'
ball, and think polo tie 'most confouEdedest
nonsense that ever was"
Masculine Incidence of the day is illustrated
at Lake George, where young ladies row the boat
and the athletic man lies comfortably in the
stern, with an awning over his often soft head.
But, we forget, many matrimonial engagement
has been effected in this way.
Long Island resorts are doing better, &c is
claimed than for many years past and the
boarding houses have, it is further asserted, a
class of people heretofore only contented at the
| most fashionable hotels of leading resorts. All
of which is very fine for Long Island
Bryn Mawr, where so many mice" families of
Philadelphia most do congregate at this time, is
delightful place, permeated so strongly with
| good society" that the cow bows courteously to
the milkmaid, and the chickens smile pleasantly
at their executioner. All Philadelphians who
can't go to Paris go to Bryn Mawr before they
die.
A paper edited by Vassar girls-young ladies
NAV be better-at the Atlantic Highlands n. j..
is creating quite a zephyr. 1t lacks the pro-
| fundity of the London Times's political leaders
| and the depth Of the Scientific Americans de-
! scriptions of new thumb-screw, but it is read
| able, all the same and should circulate every
where with busting sound
| Lebanon Springs, one of the Oldest and beat
| known resorts. has energetic and enterprising
hotel people this year, and modern conveniences
and comforts replace Anticipated and shabby
| features of accommodation Lebanon is healthy,
beautiful and respectable. Besides, and on this
| the natives lay great stress, it is the only sum
mer resort mentioned in Scripture.
Scandal of the sthey say" kind, is manufact
ured at Richfield in quantities to suit, and, be-
| ing gratuitous, there is a great demand for il
| among the old ladies and ancient beaus on the
| hotel piazzas. But Richfeld is not alone in this
manufacturing business. 1t ia feature of al
most all the socalled fashionable summer re
sorts
| Inferring the youth who waited upon her at 9
| White Mountain hotel was a college student, 6
| Boston lady remarked: do you discover thai
your vocation here is at all detrimental to your
collegiate courseY' He looked at her an instant
and then. handing her the bill of fare. said: Poy
or puddin', did We say, MANI 'Tis ever thus
our fondest hopes decay, and so forth.
A gentleman at the Virginia White Sulphul
| Springs remarked to Colonel Fairfax that the
| ladies played tennis very well. and, too, were
very beautiful. "Bless your heart, sir" said tht
Colonel, "this is nothing. sir to what 1t was, sir
You should have seen them play tennis. sir. be
fore the war, sir! And their beauty What
bless your heart, sir, it is nothing. Yon should
hava seem our SouthArn girls nrior to 1861 sirl