The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-21

Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD
IN THE ADIRoNDACKs, September 10.
Not at any of the fashionable hotels, not
where sad-faced invalids go UP and dreadful
looking cofiins come down, but in the very heart
of the Adirondacks, where one is BEAUTIFULLY
tired at o'clock and ready for the fray at :,
do l abide. The house is highly priced, though
il cannot be called palatial. 1t consists of one
large room built of good sturdy logs, having an
enormous fireplace, and the beds built into the
wall like so many shelves. When the owner
goes up he takes the mattresses and blankets and
all the belongings necessary for mountain out
ing and when he comes away he can turn the
kev on the house. certain that there is nothing to
steal. for the natives, few and far between are
not likely to want the bunk-like beds.
The eating is primitive, and so are the appe-
tites. To eat the fish you have caught or the
game that you have shotis Thousand times more
delightful than the best dinner that ever came
from the market. There is one woman in the
marty who knows how to make bread, and as
there is not the slightest danger of indigestion
in this wonderful air, she has been put to work,
so that she wishes she had never gone to cook
ing school: for we have Maryland biscuits for
hrenkfast hot loaf bread for dinner, and puffy
d for & s4ppf % the SaV s g can
fish, in way, and everybody can't shoot' so tns
small fascinating voices OF womanknd peg ana
plead to go fishing, and' as usuai' Vue uesHe Is
granted to them.
HOW THE ADIRONDACK GIRL DRESSES.
How does the Adirondack girl look? Well,
being an athlete, and having gone up there 10
have a good time, she wears, first, a suit of
annes that covers her from ankles 10 ReeR @ anu tb
down her arms as far as her wrists; tis then sne
warmest of quilted SILK skirts; over tRls us Is d
heavy flannel gown MADE qul,e snort; aor t;ht Sue
fitting sealskin jacket to keep her from getting
the intercostal rheumatism. Her 1 gloves are are
warm but loose-htting and her shoes are heel,,
less and almost shapeless. She wears cap, and
has in her pocket big silk handkerchief to tie
Friyois do not count; anything lace-trimmed is
scorned and she was the mistress OF coqueIry
6roHEn S kerebef that she tied about her
head when the fire was all aglow ana everybody
sat around telling w9ndTous stores esded U seter
much Thought, that fishing is good thing Tor
women. You watch your line bop D, ana oio o0p,
through the clear water you see the lsh dancing
around the bait, and you have got to keep quiet,
else you will loose your chance OF making tne me
biggest catch of the season. That's What all
women want and sometimes it's gotten by keep
ing Quiet.
WHERE GOING TO BED Is a CEREMONY.
Going to bed is a ceremonial involving much
time A beautiful curtain of red calico is swung
across the room and it is requested that the gen.
tlemen will please sit with their backs to it, AS
they are gentlemen. they do. linen comes the
getting into red flannel gowns, putting on stock
tbe hostess. with shawls over her gown. goes out
and comes back attended by one maid bearing a
have about them the aroma of masculinity, and
come with the compliments OF the gentlemen,
maam." Oh, they are not / all very & snd he
rest are hot, if somewhat weak. puncnes. Inen
the go to bed have 1evef tb seen 2pst
sion they don't change their clothes until the
next morning. hear them kicking ing tben fne1r
sighing in the night. If they weren't such good
fellows this signing which hath a prolonged
whistling sound, might De consIrueu ihlo eoiiie-
thing less romantic.
A YOUNG MANS MOUNTAIN DREAM
Occasionally there was scare, but never much
of one. One night young man 1ell OUT ol AL
upper bunk because he was dead trea, ana got TO
dreaming very hard, and thought he was being
pursued by bear who wanted TO mug MN. Al
the girls rushed out in their red flannel night
gowns to see what was the matter, and plctur-
esque group formed itself aQpoI % roms Img ideas Of
this Young man was discussed by people mufhed
in shawls. They thought how queer IL was me ne
should dream he was hugging bear, intll rev
minutes later on he was discovered hugging a
girl who was radiant in red nightgown, seal
skin coat Turkish slippers over her Woollen
stnckin1s and a general air of satisfaction and
future punishment peryading her. me en- @chaperone
mars hnnks but to save her soul she couldn't
get that crowd quiet again that night. The
yona9g who had eese VIII HEsa the os Wy
and the young woman to whom the song was
addressed would do nothing but lauRh, wnile ME- az
the rest joined in the chorus Ihey sytnpathiZeu
with herso.
LOVE IN A MOUNTAIN PARTY.
No mountain party is complete unless some
body falls in love with somebody. 1t ADDS zest
TO the fshing and makes it possible for the
vounr man. if he is refused and wishes to do soto
shoor himself on the spot for there are plenty of
guns about. He has never been known 70 40 II,
nrobably for this very reason; but the girl KNOWS
about the guns, and she cries so hard, and seeing
the facility for suicide, he concluGes 10 t Hye LOT
her sake. It's amusing, healthful' ana deHght-
ful--fOr two wecks-this life up IN the noun
tains but at the end of that time you want 10
come to home and civilization.
LoNGINGs FOR THE TOWN.
One young man who has just arrived has set
three girls to packing their trunks by singing all
the songs out Of 'The Merry Monarch" and max
ing them turn green with envy because they
didn't know il. They want TO see Jansen, that
angel boy-naturally | mean an angel without
Wings-they want TO hear wilson tell about being
81 king with capital X, and they want to see the
young man who has just come when he says it's
the best thing he ever saw in his life, and they
set their teeth hard they resolve when they get
back TO New York they will eat the dirt on the
Still, they will go home better, stronger, and
healthier women, and they will have learned how
much beauty there is in life, even II IT s life far
away from the madding crowd, amid that great
temple Of God, the forest me MODE OF nVlng
may seem a little odd at first, but when one
thinks of Il primitive camp meeting III becomes
quite civilized. / remember hearing my grand
mother say that ut II camp meeting she once went
TO the girls all slept in one tent and the young
men in another, and at night you couldn't pass
between because all tue hands were out and
clasped-naturally in brotherly love.
SINGING RoUED a CAMPFIRE,
Up here in the clear, good, honest air men for
GET their EtGriGE their love for hill