Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-02

and pure water restore and promote physi-
cal strength, while the fine scenery, the at
fractions of the platform and concert stage.
the grand Sunday services and daily ''tyEi-
light prayers. the innocent. refined and I'M
core>rained social enjoyment provided for,
ministers to every sense of the intellect
ual and religious mind.
Monteagie Is a summer home for
Christian people. The grounds are studded
over with private cottages. The summer
schools, manned by faculty composed of
specialists from the leading institutions of
the South, draw together body of teach
ers and normal students who transmit the
grand uplift and stimulus here gained to
their home fields everywhere. OF DR.
Payne, the head of these schools, a late
| number of the Journal of Education. BOs-
ton. has this 10 say:
THE Nashville normal university under
lead of President ". H. Payne. is eXerting
a greater definite influence on the public
schools of the state and surrounding coun-
try than has ever before been exerted by
one institution i'll so short a time. Methods
of teaching are far IN advance of salaries
paid or previous experience and culture Of
teachers
Other distinguished educators resident
here for the season. or connected with the
schools, are Professor Alcee t'ortier of
Tulane university. Louisiana: Professor
lCb4GSStu. W no lids lIC CllstIE VI l@dllu
Greek in the Presbyterian university,
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, "A Johns Hopkins man and
scholar of fine grade; Professor y. p.
Bourland of the chair of English literature
University of Nashville; Mrs. Cobb and
Miss Andrews of Wesleyan female college.
Macon, Ga; DR.. COunselman of the chair
OF pathology,i Johns Hopkins university,etc.
Teachers, editors, journalists and musicians
abound, and there are more refined and
beautiful and accomplished women-with
less dress, display and goSsip-than | ever
before saw together.
The fine music furnished daily by Lob
mans orchestra.from Cincinuatiis another
great attraction and pleasure; also the
splendid vocalism of Miss Riddle ICON
tralto.) and Mr.. and Mrs. Zarecor and Mrs.
Walter Dake of Nashville. The last
named is borrowed songstress. child of
Texas. Her father, S. NJ. Ward, of Ieffer-
son. Tex. owns a handsome summer home
here, and his family of accomplished
daughters rank among the first ornaments
of Nlonteagle socicty-no mean honor, as
sure You.
Close by is a log cabin home just COM
pleted by ex-GOv. Marks of Tennessee, and
occupied by four generations of his family,
including the mother of Mrs. Marks. Ii is
built of unhewn logs. tapping in mOrtices
at the corners, and daubed with lime mortar
and stands four square, GON6O feet. Four
separated 10y pens OF CdDlIlo are lACluutu
under a board roof SlOpiug to common a cen
ter from four sides. These cabins are con-
nectcd by wide transverse hall, opening
towards the four points of the compass and
upon a twelVe-lOOt Veranda cncircling the
whole structure. This hall has two great
stone chilnneys and tirepiaces, with logs
ready to be lighted. The polished door is
strewn With bear skins, deer skins and
other trophies of the chase, while great
rustic chairs and couches invite TO repose.
The chambers are beautifully cciled in
natural wood, but the wide halls. which are
really baronial in suggestion, open clear to
the lafters thirty feet above. The house
stands on a hillside which affords space for
kitchen and dining-room below. i'll rear,
ana magnificent prospect from the upper
Veranda. NJ. T..