Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-07-22
Summer Life in the Mountains.
Correspondence of the Staunton VlNDICAToT
BEAR LITHIA SPRINGS,

NEAR ELKToN, VA, July 18th.

BEAR LITHIA SPRINGS,
NEAR ELKToN, VA, July 18th. :
The season Of 1892 may be said to be fairly
opened now at this famous watering place
Guests are arriving every day, some perma
nent, some transient. The band-an excellent
quartette-is here and discourseS music botl
sweet and plentiful. Sometimes on instru
mentS OF brass, sometimes on the good Ole
Stringed ones that seem made to be danced by
The houses are gradually filling up, the conf
pany is pleasant one. but there is still room
for more. We drink water, the water make.
us sleepy, and hungry, and peacefully dis
posed; so we sleep in the morning, i'll tht
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 being in anything
else than a good humor with himself. his
neighbor and the world at large.
At night the music plays i'll the dancing
room and those SO disposed take advantage OF
| the opportunity offered, while the elders and
| the more sober-sided sit out on the broad gal
| lery and look in at the merry dancers. After
| the music is done and the lights are out the
very depths of peace and quiet settle 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 springer rather
| lake we should say, it is SO wide and long
where copious draughts are drunk Of the life
! and health giving waters. Then chairs are
brought out on the long shady porch and I'M
der the wide spreading oaks, and the people
sit down to enjoy the almost constant breeze
| OF to gaze with never-Wearying eye over the
lovely landscape that stretches away to the
foot of the mountains that skirt this Valley
of Rest in every direction.
l. You get so lazy after staying here for a few
DAYS that you cannot read book. Novels lie
around by the score, but you hardly ever see
anybody reading one. The eXertion is too
great. A short story is the most that you eau
accomplish, and that must be one of deyouT-
ing interest OF you will never see the end of il
unless Won skip. So it can readily be seen that
the Bear Lithia is the place for tired man OF
woman to come to. Here they will find a
water that, from the very first day, seems to
exert the most wonderfully soothing effect Oh
the nerves. Such a thing as sleeplesness is
unknown on the place. In all troubles of a
dyspeptic nature almost Immediate relief il
obtained and 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 a specific.
seems to have been intended by nature for that
most difficult of all undertakings, excepting a
hotel.' Neither he nor his estimable wife
spare any pains to add to the comfort 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 past few days.
Mails from the North and from the South
come by the Norfolk d Western raj lroad twice
daily. There is every facility Of telegraph
and express.
Among the guests we notice the following ::
Miss M. S. Christian of Hampton, Va, hay
ing under her charge the two sweet little
Christian children, Julia and jackson.
Mrs. J. Y Gholson, Miss j.. IL. Shepard,
Miss G. NJ Shepard and MI. Thos. IL. Shep
ard of Farmdale, Ala.
Mr. R. j. Cone of Riyerton.
MI Frank Riggle of Long Glade.
Capt. and Mrs. T. s. Doyle, Mr.. GniIford
ID. Euritt, Mr.. e. d. Enritt. Miss Rebecca
Harrison, Mrs; B. 3, Gatlett, Miss Fannie
Catlett, Miss Natalie johnson, Mrs. Allan
M. Howison, Mrs. Jed. Hotchkiss Mrs. Judge
j. W. Stont, and Mr.. L. s. DOYLE of Staunton.
Mr. Eddie Davis. Mr.. f. Il. Recap and
wife, and Mrs. H. S. Woodruff and family of
Philadelphia.
Col. and Mrs W. r. Speare, Mrs. F. H.
Miller, Miss Ella Van Doren. Mrs. Q. V.
McCarty and Miss orley McCarty of Wash
ington, D. e.