The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-23

when OUT iaWi1g ClOlieu ltceiI from the
wool of our own slender flock, and when
my'mother cut out my clothes by means
of IA pruning knife. People who criticise
my appearance now should have cast their
eye over me then.
But look now at the swift and beautiful
schedules of our vast railway systems,
gridircning, as may say, the great and
prosperous land. Everywhere, too, new
pleasure and health resorts are springing
up. From Bar Harbor to st. Augustine,
the entire Atlantic coast is fringed with
beautiful seaside cottages and taverns for
the rich, the middle-sized rich, and even
those who can afford only a day or
two by the side ofthe oddemelling sea.
! started a few weeks ago from my
North Carolina retreat. and in twenty
four enjoyable hours was in New York,
Without change. Ii was not the first time
had found myself in New York without
change, and by recent arrangement the
Pennsylvania railroad-which. by the way,
have always regarded as one of our most
talented and gifted roads-has established
sleeping car service, by means of which,
Without change, the New Yorker may in
ude of twenty-four hours, find himself in
shs high and healthful hills of Western
North Carolina with an appetite certainly
eas Of proportion to his income.
reversing this order | came up on a
train, arriving at Jersey City at $780, /
then walked on board a Fall River boat at
SO. on whose decks as arrived a delight
FIJI band was playing See, the Conquering
Hero Comes" Hastily doffing my dap
per little speekled straw hat | placed in
charge of the steward, Mr. David WasK
ington. large watermelon, which / had
hurriediy bought and concealed in a shawl
strap. and going forward was soon seen
chatting gayly with bunko man, who
said that he had often been delighted by
my rare genius and such things as that.
He was a man, too, whom do not remem-
Der ever TO have saw before nor since.
How many new acquaintance one may
pick up about New York if he shows a
pleasant and Joyous nature. New York is
about eight sizes too large for me / some
times think. Cohasset is more nv size.
Large towns make me shy and snort like a
grass.ied elderly farm horse at the Fall of
Babylon fireworks. Inferior people notice
me with scorn in New York and comment
on my sylvan methods, but up here assoc
ciating with Mr.. Cleveland and Herr
Joseph Jefferson and Mr. Booth and Mr..
Glider and Mr.. Robson, all of whom are
sturdy woodSmen, raising their own yege-
tables at enormous expense, | feel less
akittish.
Mr.. jefferson said: Come UP. Here
you are safe. There is not a bunko man
on Bnzzard' 5 bay." So We took massage on
the Why, new steam yacht which Mr..
Robson Is having repaired most of the
ume, ne says, Tor the rare exhilaration af-
Iorded by Knowing that he has a nice
yacnt at the paint shop or plumbers lust
eetting the nnishlng touches put on IT, F"
he claims that a yacht most ALWAYS
needs something done To il tomorrow, and
then II takes day or two for the paint 10
dry. and then you suddenly look at your
watch and find that the summer is gone
and work begun. Is it not so generally in
Wis me- On, how often | sometimes think
mai terrapin and Johannisberger go with
insomnia, while health and hunger often
% With low-spirited bread and prune
sauce
on, take me back, often cry at night.
the SOFT winds moan through the costly
noes OF my easement; take me back and
~ me once more across my mothers knee
30 yore. only taking care to have me
49, the other side up.
~Saafaes Jefferson was the pioneer of
-S.saaros bay. He bought ut $32 per acre
"a now selling by the front foot along
49, raatdul waters OF Buttermilk bay.
-. aA y Is, an arm of Buzzard's hay, and
49, oae may see AT cyontide the hale and
So enaries gloating over his ill-gotten
AZ -, saile near by Is the hospitable roof
a. u.S isthers CHEEKY house on one side
he pretty cottages OF Tom and MIR.
sHelsons sister COMFY on the other.
vas surprised 10 ind Mr.. Booths
usaith so good and his endurance So great.
hsiened to an entire play of mine and
saen walked two or three miles. He said
play. VIC
;, There is more humor about Mr.. Booth
,nan | had thought after seeing him "a
nsmlei. Hamlet, he SAYS does not give
am much chance that way. have Of
efed 20 brighten up Hamlet for him ON a
ROYALTY and he i going 10 think il over for
siew weeks. AS / wrang his hand At part
ihg ne said he might not do II the coming
Fason and possibly not the season after.
90 VIII have plenty of time 10 do II IN a
satisfactory wav.
ar. Booth, have no doubt, is reserved
and quiet with strangers, and on short &C
ydalntance does not seek 10 be the life Of
!he party, but when he is among cd
ialehus he Is At his best and his me eyes
oiten twinkle in wav To make you forge
sate Sordelia affair and the bad reak made
ox Hamlet's mother
With Mr.. Booths consent / ceeIfd put
sseo hamiet' a scene which would offer
opportunities for bright diait sae and
.hsastneia puns that need not delrsct from
So uIsnhal character Of the play az sil, but
give modern color 10 il.
Il NJ, nj ; jefferson Is a good host be Alse he
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