Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-14
UP IN THE MOUNTAINS,
washingtoDians Who Are Enjoying Them |
selves-The Girls Thought They saw . Bear. |

washingtopians Who Are Enjoying Them
selves-The Girls Thought They saw o Bear.
Correspondence of The Evening Star
HOTEL kAATERsKILL, August II. 1891.
While the denizens of the hot, stuffy cities
swelter in demoEalizing heat the gay noun
tain sojourners are coolly twinkling like ''stars
up above the world so high" at the Hotel
kaaterskill. No heat, no flies, no mosquitoes
The cool evening breezes chasing people to
catch-no, not colds-up their wraps and
snuggle in them while they listen to the classic
strains of the Germania Band or make love on
the long porch, an eighth of a mile long, OBJ
hvious to everything and everybody except the
man in the moon that is playing tricks with
the ancient old Hudson 1900 feet below,
making it look like a silvered ribbon waving in
the wind. Moonlight and river from the
time of old Adam and Eve in their paradise
have been fine accompaniment to love making
The handsome Jose De Rivas of Washington
left the cares OF the Spanish legation to enjoy
the distractions of the mountains. These gay
Spanish gallants capture. well, smiles, if not
hearts. There il no telling what Senior Jose
De Rivas captured.
Miss Elizabeth Filomena Leynard, a Wash
ington favorite, had Jolly little adventure up
here, in company with Miss Hannah Clarke
iiailton OF West Virginia These charming
misses evidently know more about beaux than
bears. They thought they would go off the
beaten tracks and what they could find in
the painless wilds In jaunty blue flannel
mountain suits. natty hats and pretty crooks
these brave marauders Of the woods sailed
forth Suddenly Miss Elizabeth found some
thing She screamed in truly delightful
feminine way, "A bear! bearr Miss Hannah,
who did notenjoy being Rugged by bear as much
as by a-more Intelligent and gallant animal of
| higher creation. fled without apology uphill
with fieetness that would have done credit to
| a Salvador. They scared the roses into their
| cheeks. the hairpins out of their hair, and dis
counted the best record Of the best runners.
They told, in a highly dramatic, picturesque
manner. their terrible adventure" They
| aroused the lighting blood Of several summer
gallants. They armed themselves with tennis
bats, clubs and all that. Got the bOldest latest
| fellow among them to go in front as a barri-
cade. They sneaked through the woods with
| the wary courage of Indians and came upon
| the awful brute-which proved to be the most
| fascinating old Newfoundland dog who was
mothering a beautiful group of very interest
| ing pups with truly maternal watchfulness and
| enterprise
The young ladies declare they saw bear.
But the bears all wildcats, and the Wild
cats, like many others of the poetic iik like to
men.
Even from the fair city Of Washington, that
| Kate Field 80 cleverly presents as q charming
summer resort, come aspiring mOrtals, who en-
| Joy being on the htiSnts
| The Misses Biddle. DIR. II. VI. Elkinton, Mrs
| c. o. Hoppe, Miss Z. A. Richardson, Mr.. James
| Goldsborough and wife. Miss Elizabeth +. Ley
| nard and others representatives Of the
| lovely city that belongs to every patriotic
American who are enjoying the kaaterskil this
| season.
Bowling. tennis, boating in a truly ideal way,
tramping. tally-ho parties, dancing twice
| week. riding horseback in the woods, bounding
on mettlesome steeds over the innumerable
d bull hat mat lvn
| glorious ease watching the thistle, down clouds
drift through the sky, above and below the
idler. are enjoyments that each can take ac-
| cording to his mood or fancy, and forget the
cares and worries of life and get in a jocund,
heaIthful mood and trim for the rush, dash and
| spirited action for the winter. To be shut out
from the care-driving world by these old Cats
Kills for a fast-feeting summer season is rather
agreeable. Don't you thind 30? l do.
| DOROTHY @.