The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-01
Spicy Breezes from St. Teresa.

To the Editor OF the FLoRIDIAN:
Descriptions of this lovely little Eden
have been too often written for me to at
tempt such thing in this letter, but
every day pleasant and interesting events
occur, which no doubt will entertain our
friends at home, and hence the cause for
this communication.
While the pleasant and roomy hotel
built by Captain Slusser is an addition,
and valuable one, to this seaside resort,
the chief and nameless charm about dear
old "Jim Island'' is that part on which
the old cottages, built eighteen years
ago, stand. In these we sleep OH pine
bed-steads, arrange various articles of
wearing apparel and the toilet on shelves,
feeling all the while that delightful sen.
sation of doing just as we please in regard
to any of the conventional rules of life
Some days we are entertained by races
between the two lovely sail-boats Of
Messrs. L. and G. So evenly matched
are they that neither one or the
other has ever yet gotten the advantage.
Swimming along near the beach, as if in
imitation of the genuine race, are often
seen at the same time too small row.
boats, filled with children; racing, too,
but with umbrellas doing duty as sails
and enjoying the sport hugely.
Just above the home-ike boarding.
house Of Mrs. Gamble are located lot of
jolly young bachelors, who fish and hunt
during the day and serenade delightfully."-
at night, bidding you keep "silence,'
"rest in peace" and "sleep on, in the
most persuasively musical accents, until
one feels almost compelled to crafty
them just from pure spirit of accommo-
dalton; and second, because in tn de-
licious air you cannot very we'll keep
awake.
A certain pleasant, good-natured gen.
tleman boarding at the Slusser hotel is
the victim Of numerous jokes, perpe-
trated by those whose older experience
on the salt water makes them feel their
superior knowledge of things pertaining
to the ''briny deep" He finds horseshoe
crabs as bedfellows; thinks they are
''horrid beasts" and is invited out
">npe hunting on the stereotyped plan
of holding the bag open in wait for others
to drive quantities Of snipe therein. Of
course he watches alone and in vain for
birds, but takes it all with such unusual
good nature that the boys feel rath'r
shame aced over the result.
What lovely night! AS my glane Q
wanders to the Gamble wharf, see an
chored around it no less than eight boats,
and further on several in front of Messrs
Bradford and Gilmore's. CHANGING still
higher up The beach the Q, rests on
numbers the same fancifully gotten up
little sail and row-boats attached to the
wharf in front of the new hotel. However
these are not long stationary, but will
be seen later or, ether sailed or rowed
in this lovely little bay. Tonight is ex-
pected from the Gamble wharf pyro-
technic display, and Friday night will be
given from Mrs CANDLES 10 .rding-house
an afternoon tea, in honor Of Miss B
LIS sixteenth birthday.
Entertainments and amusements are
plentiful, grabbing expeditions and sail.
ing excursions b, ing the order of the
day.
The first meal your correspondent took
here was supper, and was, like all Mrs.
CANDLES meals, beyond criticism, the
bill of fare being oysters, fried AMI raw,
fish, broiled and fried. fish salad, light
rolls, mullins beaten biscuits, hominy,
bread, honey, made from the lovely wild
flowers Of this dear old island, and pre-
serves, with first-class tea and coffee.
BY the next bnat are expected crowd
of.visitors, and, these waters will witness
more gayety than ever. before.