Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-14
SEEN WITH A STRANGERS EYES
Clippings from II Recent Letter to Turf
Field and Farm.

Clippings from Recent Letter TO Turf,
Field and Farm.
Brattleboro has been long famed for the
purity of its water running, as it does,
clear as crystal from the inner chambers
of its rock-ribbed granite and marble hills.
The atmosphere, too, partakes of the same
uncommon and pleasant qualities.
The carriage and wagon roads leading
out of and into Brattleboro are 81 in mum
Der, so am told, not having tried all of
them yet. A popularity of these drives is
that all of them are so constructed that you
can 90 in one direction outward and in
ward by another, Interchangeable. Thi,
gives no less than l4S variations of features
in single drive of from % to 40 miles, if
you elect to 20 so far. Moreover, there are
two goOd-sized rivers, the picturesque Con-
necticut and the no less beautiful West
river, with ID to % trout brooks, within
the area | have described, and which occa-
sionally break in ornamental cascades from
the hills, banks and mountains, thence
meandering and gurgling through bush and
shrub-garnitured meadows, or flowing in
the deep and darkening underground of an
almost primeval wood, giving ample matter
for poetry and for food.
lie DTOOkS House mas one nunufeu
rooms, lofty and light and airy. The pro
prietors brought this hotel up to the high
est modern standard of the demands of
fashion and convenience. The house is
lighted by both electricity and gas, with
the incandescent globe pendant in every
room. and gas brackets BY the way the
Brattleboro gas is very white and clear
The Brooks also has elevators run by steam
at hn inn &C coll IL,
heated. The halls and stairways are wide.
and the means of rapid exit more than am
pie. The halls are well lighted all night
by electricity. The parlors are spacious
and elegant, while broad piazza, probably
100 feet in length, extends along the front,
bordered on the east. perhaps 300 yards
OFF, by the beautiful Connecticut river
and the picturesque face of the uXuriantly
foliage-clad Wantastiquet mountain, which
rises to a height of about 200 feet above
the river bed
philosophical citizens have only recent
~ completed an easy-graded wagon road
up this mountain, and at various turns
have posted neatly painted signs of tout
looks from Nos ! to ), with other char
acteristic signs, such as Rocky Canon, 50
North Bend. DINNER Rest" DE.
Every Wednesday night is styled Band
night, when the local band. led by Mr..
LeitsingeT, plays classic and popular airs
(mainly the latter, from the broad piazza
of the Brooks House, to the delectation of
its scores of guests and the throngS that
fill the sidewalks and crowd the street
with vehicles of many kinds. Baby car
riageS and their infant occupants, and ac-
companying nurses, sisters, brothers or par
ents, are likewise numerously represented
all together making an animated scene com
bined of city and of rural pictureSqueness.
The band plays from : to 9 O'Clock, and
recently it has interlarded singing with its
Instrumentation feature that receives
much commentator from denizens of and
soiourners in Brattleboro, among the lat
ter of whom please count me.
Mrs. Edwin II. Chase, of Louisville,
Ky. tone of Kentuckys most highly ac-
complshed matrOns), on behalf of her
youthful daughter Miss Allethaire Chase
/ (who is spending her vacation with her
/ parents at their Bratteboro mansion), gave
picnic party on Wantastiquet mountain
one afternoon of last week Mrs Chase
/ herself drove up in buggy, while the
/ young misses and young men walked, and.
as | took the same tramp the same day,
can vouch for its interesting and healthfu
/ character.
Arrived on the summit (bountiful pro-
vision having been made by Mrs. ChaSe).
with ready invention the party improvised
an oven of stones, made fire, boiled cOf-
| fee and broiled mutton chops, all the young
ladies and young men taking part in the
cooking by foraging for water. filling the
kettle "a bright copper vessel, fit to pre-
pare in the best of Kentucky mountain
dew, copper distilled) and by sharpening
sticks on the end and sticking them into
the chops and holding them over the fire
until they were done to a turn" The
scene was lovely in the extreme. for the
girls (as pretty bevy as ever ornamented
rose-and-sapphire mountain top, all ca
gerly bending over and trying to get the
clearest blaze of the fire, each one on the
particular chop she had transiXed on the
point of her stick, made scene that Carl
da might have permanently fixed with a
pointed pencil, in the manner of her re-
cent beautiful water-color illustrations OF
Lucy Hamilton Warmers Give Little
Finger Stories" book. Or, perhaps by the
graceful hand of Miss Evelyn Manly. who
has recently painted some beautiful flower
pieces.
| know that | am risking something by
mentioning Carida in this connection, for
the stage is her bent, and she is bent upon
going on the stage. For this purpose she
has been especially studying, and | am
bound to say that she has attained rart
degree of excellence toward the accomplish
ment of her aim, and when she does make
a start, ii will he seen that her studies were
not in vain.
But to go back to the party. They had
a regal repast, and that portion in which
they themselves played Chefs tasted all
the sweeter therefor, as might say, if
were writing a romance; whereas this is
only romantic reality.