The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-30

nook from the wainscoting of NV trouser.
VIZ. one thing which / like about me
ME not In any sense candidate. Won
u may rlo say IN general way that my health
What admire about Mr.. Cleveland -
s saiu Mr: Jefferson the following day, sis
tnat ne IS just man. Even his enemies
must admit that. When we co ont
nsn,,ing and return at night Mr.. Cleveland
M mili not accept more than his Just share of
the eaten. L do not say that Mr.. blaine
would expect to catch schubs' and spumn-
kln seeds all day and then expect to off
SET them against brook trout, but at the
same time think he might consider that
ms conversational powers would offset his
suckers while Mr.. Cleveland does not try
20 work his diplomatic gifts as to keep
MIN IN grub. He is a man who wants to
give SUBSTANTIAL justice to everybody. aud
OF course this does not suit those who
never tried it.
Mr.. Cleveland and his wife make good
nelgnnors here. and he has never borrowed
anything yet that he has not returned. |
heip MIN IN haying and he helps me in
harvest We exchange works | let him
nave my autobiography to read, and he
loans me some of his most spicy old mes
sages to congress"
Property has greatly appreciated in this
country since the arrival of the Cleyelands.
Jefferson and Gilders. From $50 per acre
PAID by Mr.. Charles Jefferson, the price
has gone up to $50 and $500. and even to
price per front foot. But fortunately the
Spectator will not get a chance at it. for
the colony holds enough of it to keep the
semi-barbarism of boom out of it. What
can be sadder than the stealthy football of
" boom in the soothing silence of the
primeval forest? What can be more sac
religious than the fizzle of soda fountain
or fictitious value where nature has held
the age on the false and the artificial for
centuries?
The tendency for the past few years
among those who have leisure and even
moderate means. is to foster the growth
OF cottage life, and to the detriment of
the great, oyergrown summer hotel, with
Its waste of piazZas and raw material. its
tiddiedewinks greatness, its James Crow
aristocracy, its noise and newness, salt air
and starvation, its fussy invalids and foot
pad walters.
Why not have even a fifty-dollar log
cabin in the hills or wall tent by the
wailing sea in preference to all this?
l have wall tent this summer which is
much larger than any room | ever had at
seaside hotel, and | have prospect on
the outside that money could not buy. We
have also in the North Carolina mountains
style of refrigerator for meats that would
surprise and amuse the uninitiated. 1t
consists of rectangular cage, covered
with mosquito wire and attached TO a rope
We put pulley up in high pine tree
and run the rope over it. Then we attach
the refrigerator, put in our meats and pull
the whole thing up in the tree. 1t keeps
sweet and improves for week or ten days.
The reader Will be tempted to disbelieve
this unless he has lived in a mountain
country and tried it.
Looking over the United States, it is
wonderful how health and pleasure resorts
have built up within few years. From
the East to the West, from the North to
the South the coast and the hills are
freckled with cottages and inns for those
who have learned that a change of air is
better than the entire pharmacopeia.
Nantasket beach, the Coney island of
Boston, Is beautiful stretch of shore,
giving upon Boston harbor. | saw a
wagon load OF young men on the JeYusa-
lem road who had been up to Nantasket,
and improved their health so much that
they spoke about it in high terms 10 every
one they met, even stopping good many
carriages to tell joyfully and yet with i'll
guided elecution and confused rhetoric,
following day they followed up their die
tetic course with twelve hours gentle ex-
erclse In macadamiZing the roads of CO.
hasset, returning at night with a healthy
glow and in charge of an officer.
Boston does not seem so deathiy quiet
III dS new i Ork. w nile the
hot weather reduces the speed of pedes-
TRANS on Washington street somewhat |
succeeded IN getting shoulder knocked
off before breakfast as | was hurrying
down to the common for a brisk walk and
also TO see the parched and feverlsh frog
pond, hoping that at that hour l might
find 1t moist, with mayhap frog in it.
Boston used to be called Shawmut by
the chronological red brother Ii was
afterward called fremont. pronounced
Tremmont. This pronunciation when it
gets as far as Pittsburg becomes fremont
and ut Chicago, fremont
1t really means trimountain, because it
was located on the tops of three hills.
The herdic is favorite relaxation in
Boston among the middle classes | have
fought with cabmen in all countries, but
never got hold of one that | could whip
till | came to Boston this time. You al
ways know when you get into a herdic
that you will not only have a pleasant
little choppy ride. but that you will know