The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-02-04
SCENERY.


e1AAsr ScaaaEy Oonmsroialiy GsA -
tbstieA1ly ConsiAarsa.
This has been, on DE whole. = verv
good season for .sscenerv.s' Il hGs
varied in price from two dollars and 8
hall day for 3 quiet article to 1--WE dol
lars for the broadcast and best. A re-
sort with "a full line of scenery Is, OF
course, expensive; that is. one that
combines mountains. valleys, water,
namIets, rocks, cascades. islands, wa.
ter-falls. 1t is difficult to define exact
~ what scenery is in the popular mind.
but all are agreed that it Is an article
one must 60 away from homo 60 get
1e seems to be the general notion that
It = view, and with many the word
means = wide and distant prospect
The commercial gentleman Who was
looking on from the platform of the
ka2teCskin House, and remarked that
It was the best place for scenery he
Knew came very close to good popu-
lar definition. With him it was q large
prospect. The idle traveller Is often
asked whether he Is fond Of scenery.
And the question is an embarrassing
one. He may never have thought of It
in that light. He is fond of beefsteat:
perhaps he does not like to confess his
love for things aesthetic. The Drawer
met = charming girl in the Catskills
who said that she was very fond of
scenery, and she liked nature too.
Both scenery and nature she would go
great ways to see, and the inference
was that they couldn't be had at home.
Perhaps scenery in her mind was asso-
ciAted with . hotel, and . number of
young gentlemen in fancy walking cos
tune. And, whatever scenery is, there
Is no doubt that it is vastly improved
BY the presence of young ladies in gay
toilets. In fact, you may take an or
binary landscape, or . common brook
with twenty-five cent waterfall
that is, fall that it costs . quarter OF
. dollar to turn on-or piece of open
woods with sunlight Pickering on the
ground and on the boles of the trees, or
q tree-encircled lake with roW-boats,
and Introduce the female figure, groups
OF girls in those engaging attitudes that
nature teaches them, or pairs of lovers
In the pretty circumstances of
young affection. and you have what is
probably the best article of scenery in
the world. And yet this sort of thing
Is not that usually recognized as seem
cry.
The effect of scenery upon different
persons is worth the students atten.
ton. Let him take his seat before some
recognized piece of SCENERY" like
that from the Catskill height Just spok.
en- OF, and watch the effect of it upon
those who come to look at it. The fat
traveller who arrives perspiring seems
TO appreciate the value of it. He re-
moves his hat and mops his forehead,
and looks about with an expression of !
delight in the Vastness of the prospect
His eye roves at once over all the |
States Of the Union in sight, he seems
TO weigh the view in his mind for its
size, but he wastes no time on it He /
that that is the scenery for /
him, and then abandonS it in search of i
; cooling drink. Then comes the dom.
ME school-master in q long-skirted
oroadcioth coat, 3 severe man, with
half dozen of his scholars. He waves
ais hand over the whole view with the
air of imparting information to the
1oung: that is the Hudson River, that
5 Connecticut, that is Massachusetts.
hat is Vermont, we are in New York !
it is gigantic lesson in geography.
md the boys follow him away as soon |
Is they have learned it. There, again,
5 a rather battered-looking middle.
Iged man reclining on the edge of the
does he see? A panorama
4 his lifeP Probably not. Few people
re given to musing on their past. He
njoys the repose Of the landscape, the
amt rattle of wagons, or the clang of
railway train coming up from four or
i've miles away, tine shadows on the
immense plain, which is marked of in
plots of meadow and grain
nd woods, the CLEAN of the river-a
picture full of variety too
AZ removed to make distinct inn
sort of view that requires
70 young girls in muslin, arms around
ach others waists-no, not exactly
Dung, but young for school-marms,
DO shy for absolute youth-sauntering
long the edge of the precipice, ex-
ressing genuine rapture over the pros
ect It must be confessed that their
CURES in silhouette against the sky
ave an artistic value. Nobody can
sn how much they really see, but
oubtless moro than another couple
rho have just stepped out across the
lstform, and stand in an attitude of
Pretty soon, however,
1ey are looking at each other, and II
hey get any view at all of the land
cape, it is as reflected in each others
yes. There is no landscape in the
'orld equal TO that, if the eyes are
retty, that is, if they reflect we'll
re these lovers on q wedding tour?
low charming the scenery is to theml
he is sitting down now on rock. pull
lg to pieces a wild azalea, with her
yes downcast, and he, seated on
ock at her feet. is looking up at her.
ak about seeing four States at once
nd hundred villages and the Hudson
liver! This young gentleman sees the
hole world; and The charming girl
'ho has entangled him with her long
yelashes knows it as well as he does.
his is an appreciation of scenery that
oes to the heart. They never will
oung lady is asked to describe it when
be goes home, she will not be able to
rake half as good description of it as
le fat man, but how much more she
sw and felti The fat man just carried
way with him q map, but this girl .
LeaVen be kind to her-has gone away :
18th q piece of scenery in her heart
lat all mankind desire, and that life
Ould be very poor without. We have
zen some travellers who say they pre-
II the seashore to scenery. This is .
lere matter of taste. What the Draw. !
: prefers is the eyes Of the young lady l
lat have the power of transmitting /
into Charles DHd-
q Warner, i's HGrper'S Magazine :
Attendants at the Harrisburg Insane
.ospital, where Miss Addle Brinkle
as confined nearly thirty years for ex-
and for buying goods she
Duld not pay for, are now asserting {
1eir belief that she was undoubtedly
lsane, because she talked continuously '
bout dress and fashions and put on
irs" in the presence of gentlemen. Il
1ese peculiarities be signs of insanity
ow many lunatics are at largee-la-
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