The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-20
BEAR LlTHlA.
The Season Fully Opened at
This Popular Resort.
BEAR L1rH1A SPRINGS.


The season Of 1892 may be said to be
fairly opened now at this famous water
ing phase. Guests are arriving every
day, some permanent, some transient.
The band-an excellent quartette--is
here and discourses music both sweet
and plentiful, sometimes on instru.
ments Of brass, sometimes on the good,
old stringed ones that seem made to be
danced by.
The houses are gradually filing up
and the company is pleasant one, but
there is still room for more. We drink
water, the water makes us sleepy and
hungry and peacefully disposed. So we
sleep in the morning, in the afternoon
and at night. We eat whenever the bell
rings and are always ready to go to the
sound OF the first tap of that tocsin of
delight, and nobody ever thinks of be-
ing in anything else than a good humor
with himself, his neighbor and the
world at large.
AT night the music plays in the dane
ing room and those so disposed take
advantage Of the opportunity offered,
while the elders and the more sober
sided sit out on the broad gallery and
look in at the merry dancers. After
the music is done and the lights are out
the very depths Of peace and quiet set
tie down over house and hotel and
spring and field and river, and blessed
sleep reigns supreme until the rising
bell reminds us that we are hungry and
must have breakfast. Breakfast done,
we walk to the beautiful spring, or
rather lake we should say, it is so wide
and long, where copious draughts are
drunk of the life and health-giving
waters. There chairs are brought out
on the long shady porch and under the
wide spreading oaks, and the people sit
down to enjoy the almost constant
breeze or to gaze with never. wearying
eye over the lovely landscape that
stretches away to the footof the noun
tains that skirt this valley of rest in
every direction.
few days that you cannot read book
Novels lie around by the score, but you
hardly ever see anybody reading one.
The exertion s too great. A short story
is the most that you can accomplish,
and that must be one of devouring in
.terest or you will never see the end of
it unless you skip. 5 1t can readily be
seen that the Bear Lithia is the place
for tired man or woman to come to.
Here they will find water that from
tue very first day seems to exert the
most wonderfully soothing effect on the
nerves. Such a thing as sleeplesness
is unknown on the place.
In all troubles OF a dYspeptic nature
almost immediate relief is obtained;
this is true also in regard to all of the
digestive organs, while in affections of
the kidneys Of every kind the water
seems to be specific. The proprietor,
Mr.. Yates, is man who seems to have
been intended by nature for the most
difficult of all undertakings, excepting
hotel" Neither he nor his estimable
wife spare any pains to add to the com
fort and pleasure Of their guests. The.
big Shenandoah flows close by and there
have been several fine catches of bass
made in it within the last few days.
Mails from the North and from the
South come by the Norfolk and Western
railroad twice daily. There is every
facility of telegraph and express.
Among the guests we notice the fol-
lowing: Miss M. S. Christian, of Hamp-
ton, Va, having under her charge the
two sweet little Christian children,
Julia and Jackson; Mrs. j. Y. Ghoison,
Miss l.. II. Shepard, Miss G. Nj. Shep-
ard, Farmdale, Va; R. j. Cone, River
ton; Frank Riggle, Long Glade; Thos.
II. Shepard, Farmdale, Ala Capt. and
Mrs. T. s Doyle, Prof. Guilford d.
Eurritt, e. d. Eurrftt, Miss Rebecca
Harrison, Mrs. B. B. Catlett. Miss Fan
ME Catlett, Miss Natalie johnson, Mrs.
Allan M. Howison, Mrs. Jed Hotchkiss,
Mrs. Judge j. M. Stout, l.. G. Doyle,
Staunton, Va; Eddie Davis, Philadel.
phia, Pa. Col. and Mrs. w. r. Speare,
Mrs. +. II. Miller, Miss Ella Vandoren,
Mrs. o. V. McCarty, Washington, D. c.;
Mrs. H. S. Woodruff, T. II. Recap and
wife, Philadelphia, Pa.
DOLCE FAR NIENTE.