Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-29

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retreat. Here you zee saurians IN
their beloved mud. seals on THAR rocks,
beavers keeping house comfortably,
nominating conventions OF monkeys
Dorsas societies and Browning clubs OF
parrots, and more snakes than were ever
dreamed of out Of an inebriats asylum.
No. not even in the dog-days need
strangers In London fear to be without
the appliances OF civilization and the
consultations OF religion. Dress-makers.
druggists. doctors--both OF medicine ana
divinity and undertakers are
there still ready TO execute their orders
with cheerful slacrity. Visitors can sim
take the coaching excursions TO varions
interesting places. The choice 10 q little
embarrassing. bat all routes promise well.
With = ccntentcd spirit and little
philosophy one can be jolly going almost
anywhere over there in fine weather IL
one has pleasant party and drag
some folks haven't
We know but two English seaside re-
sorts-Brighton and Margate--both very
populsr but differing widely in cbarac-
ter. We once spent two weeks IN
Brighton comfortably but very
stupidly. We had no friends with us,
and as for q chance acquaintance with
any one on the piers or esplanade 1t was
not to be thought OF. Crowds were there
OF the stiffest, staidest, most unsympa-
thetic people imaginable.
They move on forever in Brighton
on their ieet--good, generous, service
able ieet--or in Bath chairs. Sometimes
NO met whole families-pater, mater,
brave sons, fair dsughters-promensding
as silent aud joyless rs Blimber board
ing-school Sometimes they paused
near us, very near, but seemed infinitely
far away IS they fixed on us true
British stare, blank yet stern, which
seemed TO say, 81 don't see you, you
know. and i don't like your looks" All,
Max 0'Kell, bravest, wittiest, and most
charming OF satirists, how well you I'M
derstand and paint this sort OF people
Brighton is q properer place than it
was in the time OF the naughty Prince
Regent, but not sololly rs when under
his rollicking regime. The only rollick-
ers here now are the waves. 1t was
generslly too rough for comfortable bath
ing, and rash young people who went
out for q sail, brave and boasifnl, usually
came back silent and subdued. having
suffered sea change into something
limp and strange.
SEA AIR.
When last sumner we wanted little
sea air, and society friends advised rs
not TO 80 to Margate. because it was so
noisy place, 40 affected by common
people bent on having a good time, We
said "Wby, it's Just the place for US "
It was not that We particularly wanted TO
amuse ourselves, but we wanted to see q
few English holiday-takers really Jolly.
So we went to Margate. We did not
stop in the lower town, however, where
toe cockneys "most do copgregate, and
where are the iolliest doings." but went
to the airler, cleaner. and, L
must confess, more aristocratic up
per town, It was from the bluffs
the Fort-that we watched those dread
full "cOmmon people" enjoying them-
selves. with their wives and children or
sweethearts. They we're noisy, rough,
| often NuIkhT III ElhuNtt bAN NASeo' ~ y
filed the air with laughter, music hall
SONGS, and the popping of ginger-beer
corks: they strewed the beach with
melon rinds and that superfuous letter,
H-but at n distance l enjoyed their
frolics, rough but real-almost their
horse-laughs and horse-play. l liked to
see them "let 60.
Perhaps it vas because our quarters
we're rather narrow, though neat snd
pleasant, but certain it is our household
IN Ethelbert Gardens, on the hill, was
singularly harmonious and friendly. No
where in an English hotel or pension had
We ever found so refined, intelligent,
and agreeable a set OF people as those
we met under the modest roof OF Tenn
pie House.
Here we spent four weeks delightfully."-,
almost every breath being q delight, the
fragrance Of the ozone which abonnds
on the cliffs being more grateful to us
than "all the perfumes of Arabia. "
Here also was much promenading, but
people walked like animated creatures,
not like automatons, and they did not
snuff an American afar of and snort,
aha They were liberal, social
beings 49, cosmopolitan - very human.
Perhaps it was the ozone.
GRAoE GREENWOOD.