The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-22
SUMNER RESORT ECHOES.
New York Mail and Express.


Church fairs are in order all along the summer
resort line. Success at selling ten-cent pin-cush
ions for So Is as gratifying as ever
Cottage people at Saratoga have reception
days." for which cards are issued There never
was better summer to make apples swim.
Jarley's wax-works, progressive euchre. tab
leaux theatricals and masQuerades are now In
order at q furious rate at nearly all summer re-
sorts.
A Hindoo who sought to lecture at Asbury
Park on the failure Of Christianity was taken to
the station and given five minutes to depart. He
left reminders some Indian oaths.
They had shock of earthquake on Mt. Wash.
ington last week, the summit of which was
white with driving snow. These are the freaks
of nature" to which the correspondent does not
refer.
Progressive euchre has broken out again at
the summer hotels. The funny part of the
game is that the real BOBBY never gets the
BOBBY prize. This is where the dudes sorrow
begins.
Adirondack hotel-keepers would fain preserve
the unconventionaliIy of the place, SO long its
charm. and they discourage fine feathers in social
birds. and do not in any way cater to society
people"
'Are you familiar with Huxleyp said Miss
Susan Culture of Boston, to Miss Rapid, OF New
York, at the Isle of Shoals. ''Oh yes" she said,
familiar enough. Pa has his photograph stuck
Remarkably fine drives are one of the delights
of Say brook, Conn. and many of them are under
noble old elms for miles and miles. The views
from the Fenwick Hall are very beautiful, and
cover the sound for great distance.
These are pleasant days at the White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia. goodly company has gath
ered festivity is constant the weather delight
full, and the people go about smiling and saying
one to another, ut is good to be here"
What used to be known as Round Mountain,
in the White Mountains, is now newly christ
ened Mount Cleveland by the owner. who must
be "Dimmykrar and have at least half an
eye to the main chance. There is en- obsery-
atory on the summit, and views may be had for
a consideration.
Hotels at Bar Harbor set VIGOROUSLY bad
tables. One boniface, when asked why he did
not give his people better meals said: why
should II My house is full" This idea is, un-
happily very general among the proprietors OF
watering place hotels.
Women dress for breakfast at Saratoga hotels
as if they were going to garden party or ws1
ding breakfast just soon as they had swal-
lowed the poor stuff they call coffee. They do
not appear ever to have read or heard anything
about the eternal fitness of things.
Still further reductions in prices for the bal
ance OF the season are announced at Leading
summer hotels. This is wise. Half loaf IS
better than no homo made bread at all, and II
hotel is to be skept open until October" it might
as we'll have somebody in it besides the pro-
prietors family and the servants.
An accident occurred at one of the Catskll ho
tells the other day. An old lady fell head over
heels downstairs and broke her elbow. She
said, when they picked her up. that she wouldn't
have cared if she had not been late to see the
stage come in from the train with the new arriv
ais. That is where her real suffering began.
A new souvenir sold at Niagara this season is
tiny model of the Maid of the Mist, in olive
wood, on the side of which is what Trollope said
of the FALLS "Of all the sights on this earth of
ours, which tourists travel to see, am inclined
to give the palm to Niagara. know of no other
one thing so beautiful. so glorious and go pow
erful."
This is the way the Boston girl at the resorts
''tries" the New York maiden soon after intro
duction: s.Have you read Professor Dense on
The Inner Circle of the Mind as Deviating from
Concentration of Thought" Dear, no" says
our Gotham girl, ''ife is too short; have your
And then it is agreed they shall not speak as
| they pass by.
It was moonlight at Bar Harbor, and they
were all on the beach, "Smash. smash, oh, sea,
| and Pardon me-" said the Boston woman,
| nterrupting the Chicago girl who was quoting,
| pardon me- that is miscitation." rs itF said
the other, swell, you can wrap it up and take 1t
home with you!' These are the affairs that lead
| to formal bows.
| Boston papers gravely announce that there is
| more style and less comfort and satisfaction al
| Bar Harbor than there used to be. The discoS-
| cry is late Thousands found this out long ago.
| Bar Harbor was at it's best when board was $40 q
| week, when unconventionality reigned and there
| were no audacious society women to scandalize
| the neighborhood.