The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-21
UP In THE MOUNTAINS.
"BAB" IN A GAY PARTY IN THE
ADIRONDACKs,

Where Life is Very Real, People are
Natural. and Good Health is Ram
pent-Lire IN Fashionable Mountain
Camp-skyiarking and Fnn->inZing
Round q Campfire ana Dancing IN q
Hut-A Young Mans Dream aud Its
SeQuel-True Nature Reveals Itself
in Gods Own Temple, the Forest.
Bright "Bab's" Mountain Experience.
In THE DEPTHS OF THE ADIRoNDACKs,
Sept. 1S-Not at any Of the Fashionable
hotels, not where sad aced invalids &C
up and dreadful-looking collins come down,
but in the very heart of the Adirondacks,
where one is BEAUTIFULLY tired at 9 o'clock
and ready for the fray at z. do abide.
The house is highly prized, though it can
not be called palatiaL 1t consists OF one
large room, built of good sturdy logs, hav-
ing 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 belong
ings necessary for a mountain outing, and
| when he comes away he can turn
the kew 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.
MOUNTAIN APPETITEs AND EATING.
| The eating is primitive, and so are the
| appetiteS. To eat the fish you have caught
| or the game you have shot is a thousand
times more delightful than the best dinner
that ever came from the market There is
| one woman in the party who knows how to
make bread, and as there is not the slight
est danger of indigestion in this wonderful
air, she has been put to work, so TINT she
| wishes she had never gone to cooking school
| for we have Maryland buscuits fer break
| fast, hot loaf bread for dinner, and puff Y
turn-overs for supper. Fishing is at once
the delight and work of the day. Every
body can fish, in a way, and everybody
| can't shoot, so the small, fascinating voices
| Of womankind beg and plead to go fishing,
and, as usual, the desire Is granted to them.
HOW THE ADIRONDACK GIRL DRESSES.
How does the Adirondack girl look ?
Well, being an athlete, and having gone up
there to have a good time, she wears, first,
q suit Of flannel that covers her from ankles
TO neck and down her arms as far as her
wrists; then the warmest of quilted silk
skirts; over this is a heavy flannel gown
made quite short, for she assumes boots and
leggings, and over all q tisht-itting seal
skin jacket to keep her from getting the in
tercostal rheumatism. Her gloves are warm
| but loose fitting, aud her shoes are heelless
and almost sbapeless. She wears cap and
has in her pocket big silk handkerchief 20
tie over her ears, In case they should get
cold Frivols do not count; anything lace
| tRimmed is scorned; aud she was the mis-
tress of coquetry who,,brought with her col
lection OF bright-colored silk kerchiefs that
she tied about her head when the fire was
all aglow and everybody sat around telling
wondrouS stories of adventures with gun
and rod l have concluded, after much
thought, that fishing is good thing for
women. You watch your line bob and bob,
! through the clear water you see the fish
| dancing around the bait, and you have
got to Keep quiet, else you will lose your
chance of making the biggest catch of the
season. That's what ell women want, and
sometimes it's gotten by keeping quiet
WHERE GOING TO BED is CEREMONY.
Going to bed is q ceremonial involving
| much time. A beautiful curtain of red
calico is swung across the room, and it is
requested that the gentlemen will please sit
with their backs to it. AS they are gentle
men, they do. Then comes the getting into
red flannel gowns, putting on stockings to
sleep in. and climbing into hunks Then
the hostess, with shawls over her gown
| goes OUT and comes back attended by the
| one maid bearing tray on which are
numerous hot nightcaps that have
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and come with the compliments of
| the gentlemen, ma'am." Oh, they are not
all very strong-some are hot lemonade,
one Is hot milk, and the rest are hot if some
what weak punches. Then the men can 90
to bed. l have never seen just what they
| sleep in, but | am under the impression
| they don't change their clothes until the
next morning. We hear them kicking their
boots off, and. sad as it may sound, we hear
them signing in the night If they weren't
such good fellows this signing, which hath
prolonged whistling sound, might be con-
strued into something less romantic.
YOUNG MANS MOUNTAIN DREAM.
Occasionally there was scare, but never
much of one. One night young man
fell out of an upper bunk because he was
dead tired, and got to dreaming very hard,
and thought he was being pursued by bear
who wanted to hug him. All the girls
rushed out In their red flannel nightgowns
to see what was the matter, and a pictur-
esque group formed itself about the fire,
| which native tends all night, and the Gu
rious ideas of this young man were dis
| cussed by people muffled IN shawls.
They thought how queer it was he should
dream he was hugging bear. until
| few minutes later on be was discovered
hugging girl who was radiant in red
nightgown, sealskin coat, Turkish slippers
over her wooden stockings, and a general air
of satisfaction and future punishment per-
| vading her. The chaperon murshaled her
forces, took the girls all back to their
hunks, but to save her soul she couldn't get
that crowd quiet again that night The
young man who had been Rugged by bear
insisted on singing, Love Will Find the
Way" and the young woman to whom the
| song was addressed would do nothing but
laugh, while all the rest Joined in the
chorus. They sympathized with her so.
LOVE IN A MOUNTAIN PARTY.
No mountain party is complete unless
somebody falls in love with somebody. IL
adds zest to the fishing, and it makes 1T
possible for the young man, if he is refused.
and wishes to do so, to shoot himself on the
spot, for there are plenty of guns about.
| He has never been known to do 1t. probably
| Tor this very reason; but the girl knows
about the guns, and she cries so hard. and
seeing the facility for suicide, he concludes
to live for her sake. It's amusing, health
full and delightful-for two weeks-this life
up in the mountains but at the end of that
time you want to come to home and civil
iZation.
| 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 making them turn green
with envy because they didn't know them.
They want to see Jansen, that angel boy
| naturally mean an angel without wings
they want to hear Wilson tell about being =,
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