The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1892-12-30
A Pungent Portrayal of HodSprings

Hon. Il. G. Jones, Of Frankf0rt- KY.
who was consul to Funchsl under the
Cleveland administration. is a guest at
the Park hotel Col. Jones 10 pungent
writer, as may be seen from his pencil
ings on Hot Springs as given below in
the Frankfort Capital:
PARH HOTEL,
HoT SPRINGS. ARE. Dec. Is, ls92.
This is the greatest watering place IN
| the world. The guide books here say
that Carlsbad waters forty thousand
people year. This place boils ont six
" thousand. The hotels are up to date:
the Park is one OK the finest in the
whole county; all Of its appointments
are elegant; the wide aud spacious
halls, the great diniag-rOonl, with an
outdoor hook from every seat; the bright
, and CHEEKY Office overlooking the town.
and the whcle surrounded by Il broad
porch, gives farm-like appearance. in
contrast with the soft luxuriant carpets
aud divans found within.
Everybody here is clean. lfyou eGli
yourself every day in a bath tub for
twenty minutes, you are bonnd 10 be
clean. A man may bring a Manhattan
cocktail nose here with him and within
a week or less time he can stick it into
anybody's affairs without the slightest
trouble. Some people pretend TO say
that the nose denotes character. No
nose can stay here for two weeks and
have any character at all. There is not
an aristocratic nose. u week old, ia the
whole town.
The scenery here Is beautiful One
becomes completely infatuated as he
allows his eyes and mind to feast upon
the panorama that spreads out before
him.
Ieouuted twenty-eight live o'possums
gamboling before our market place, To
say nothing of those in low neck and
short sleeves dressed FOR dinner, with
sweet potatoes in their mouths.
AT enterprisiug firm here has brought
a lot of donksys from Mexico; it is
cheeper to hire donke ythan to ride
on the street cars, if ou End out where
the donkey is going and want to 80 to
the same place. Ii YOU have ans bust
ness to transact Oh the way he will
kindly wait for you. had some friends
leaving on the train the other day, and
/ wanted 10 see them off; the man told
me his donkey WAS going to the sta
ton. l immediately mounted and
hurried away in most cheerful man
ner. 1t seems that the donkey had an
engagement at the postotiice and sew
eral other calls to make on his way
| there; we finally reached the station IN
good style The train bad been gone
at least two hours | never saw a
donkey so much astopished in all my
| life; they had evidently changed the
| time card on him; he actually cried;
| great pearly tears chased each other
down his cheeks. and his pathetic voice
could be heard over sll that part OF
| town. We attracted great attention,
| everybody seemed sorry for US. | left
the donkey at the station. had nc
! idea where he was going from there,
and wanted my supper. We never
had a cross word during our entire
| journey. At one time | had Il mind &c
| speak harshly to him, but he looked SC
| sad and forlorn | gave it up. One
| should be kind to these patient little
animals. They are placed here for our
| use; besides there was 20 fence rail b;
ero~bar in the neighborhood OF where
we Travelled
Speaking of donkeys, reminds me OF
| how Frenchy we are getting. AT opr
| table we have menu instead of +
bill of fare. Everything on the menu
IL Il leiiCD- " q uoeu u nave IptdVots
in their jackets, now we have Pota-
| toes Su Chernise. !" suppose these must
| be lady potatoes. We have "O'possu u
al gastronome. An old-fashioned pos
sum would open his eyes, if he .eH
when death came with any poss IH
| ing, he would be served kAstrOu ne
| Postum with ''sweet Il makes ny
mouth water. Possum au gastronome
makes me tired.