The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-08-05

As Others See u.

EDS JoURNAL:-Believing as ] do that
there are few OF all the many readers of the
Journal who reside in Marietta, but what
have at some time experienced the same
feelings as did the poet Burns, when he
composed these lines;
Would some power the gift to gle us,
To see ourselves as others see us,
| ask room in its columns for the follow
ing extract from letter for friend in the
Northwest. Yours Truly, H. P. G.
Speaking of the sharp contrasts between
northern Georgia and the far west, nowhere
does the difference stand out in holder
relief than when we compare the two eli
mates.
just now everything here is in its glory,
and it is not easy to imagine that five months
hence we shall be staring the dismal fact in
the face that the long cold nights and the
snow are indeed upon us, and it behooves
us to gather our forces together as best we
may, to ward off the merciless attacks Of the
Ice King
With the memory of our last winter fresh
in our minds, when we exchanged the biting
zero weather of the Northwest for the de-
lightful climate of the Georgia highlands,
we feel there insn't the slightest need of a
charmed fountain in Marietta, the drinking
Of whose waters win insure traveller S
speedy return for there is in the air itself a
sweetness and healing, which once tasted,
will never be forgotten: and which even now
is waited to us with deliciously confused
memories OF winter life in the open air, of
picturesque walks and drives a wonderful
absence of the disagreeable, and in its stead,
very present sense of content and enjoy
ment.
Yes, hereafter winter in the sunny
South means for us, not the sands of Flori-
da, but the cool, delightful middle climate
found in and around Marietta, Georgia
where a touch of frost comes now and then,
and where the winter months merge so grad
ually into spring, we can hardly tell after
wards if we have spent wonderfully pleas
ant autumn or lived long, enchanted
spring.
Everything you tell me of the many i'm
provements being made in your town gives
me much pleasure. Already its natural ia
ciities are SO superior, and in the last few
years ii has made such rapid strides in
popularity, have no doubt the day is near
at hand when it will be the fayorite winter
health resort of the South.
The fact that it is SO comparatively easy
of access from North, East, and West, that
it possesses all the advantages Of pure coun-
try air and living, and at the same time is
only twenty miles distant from all that At
lanta offers in the way of amusements sight
seeing and shopping, is in itself an induce
ment of no small value to many who dislike
to plunge into wilderness, and get too far
from the worlds people" even in search OF
health.
One more consideration Is not to be over
looked. Apart from the beauty and health
fulness of its situation, the social influence
of the place is marked characteristic, as
everyone will acknowledge who compares
| Marietta with other towns Of its size in the
South The Northern visitor is here given
a truly hospitable southern welcome, at
once feels himself at home, and instead of a
winter of mere hotel or clearinghouse ac-
Quaintance, he experiences for the time be-
ing, all the pleasures of citizenship. An
indsecribably home feeling pervades the at,
moSphere.
Blessings on fair little Marietta To
everything that is said in her praise we add
AkkttPE'AaA t6b, H6AA SAITH"