The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-10
THINGS NOT MYTHICAL,
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM 4
 ROMANTIC SECTION.
Story of tho Peculiar Adoption or Name Its Local Connection-some Facts he- corded ny an Observing Tourist-hins to Those Who May Go Hither.
 fPor the JOURNAL AND C0uRiERl

For the JOURNAL AND CouRiEhJ
 old Point Comfort. Vap
 September 6. lssf.
 Dear Courler-At this season. when weary summer is iapsing into the arms of fallow autumn, the tide Of pleasure seekers is turning this way. The north has It's Lenox, amidst whose autumnal tinted hills society and fashion turn for further rest and recreation. but the south keeps up It's summer resort pleas ures much longer. and many northern CTS visit this section to round out their outings Why they come here Is not surprising. The climate Is tempered by the sea breezes with geniality akin to that of southern France. The days are now warm and the nights cool and refreshing. Manager Pike, of the Fly geia hotel. has booked number Of Con- necticut people, who will be here after the 10th of September.
 And by the way-speaking of the Hygeia-a word ought to be said about this hotel as I never enter its doors without thinking of the Hygeia Ice Co.,. in New Haven. That word Fly geia," painted so conspicuously on the New Haven ice wagons. is always as- sociated in my mind with the word hy- geinic, which I suppose is the impress sion meant to be conveyed. The simi- larity in names led me to ask Manager Pike why he called his hotel the Fly geia. and I found that 1t was not be- cause he wished to convey the impress sion that 1t was a hygeinic palace which 1t is-but had been named after the Goddess Hygeia. You and your readers will probably remember the story of Hygeia, but 1t may be of in terest at this time to repeat it here You know that in that fabled world, peopled by the legendary myths and mystical creations of the ancients. all lovers of our Grecian and Roman di- vinities assign a foremost place to Esculapius. the gifted son of Apollo and Coronis. But in this modern era in which i've live, move and have our being" none ranks so highly and de- servedly so, from her generous reputa- tion, as his kindly and all potent daughter, her very lbeneficent God dess Hygeia.
 From her parent, Hygeia inherited the gift of healing the manifold ills to which our all to mortal flesh is sadly prone. She ranged all nature for her never-failing supply of healing gifts, and that gracious dame always hon. ored the demand on her stores of cura- tive plants and herbs, her kindly cli- mates and refreshing breezes. A most generous goddess was Hygeia; lavish with her gifts to her earnest worship pers, yet always inculcating the fact that though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, 1t cannot be trifled with without loss. To the classic Greek she typified all the recuperative properties of nature, eschewing the in- numerable nostrums with which pa tient and long suffering mankind is af- f1icted in the nineteenth century. And though our Grecian fathers wor- shipped her from afar, as 1t were, yet she was never esteemed chary of her favors; but on the contrary a most lb- eral goddess to those who sought her aid.
 The representations of Hygeia which have been handed down to us from the ancients represent her with a snake entwining her arms to symbolic re. covered health. The idea was proba. bly, conveyed by the fact of the snake renewing itself, as it were, by casting its skin.
 Our Grecian ancestors singled out this most benehcent goddess for divine honors. and only by their priests could her statue at Achaia, in Agrium, be viewed. Hygeia justly occupies fore. most position in the writings of the ancients. Health is one of those gifts which, when once lost, is so hard to re. gain. To Hygeia. as the dispenser o1 the many gifts of our common mother Dame Nature, men looked in the days when the world was young. All oi which shows us, degenerate descend | ants that we are, that ancient Greece valued and honored' preservation o health as the great means of fulfilling a destiny. So Manager Pike, mindful | of the beautiful lesson to be draw from this fabled myth, has named hi hotel Hygeia. Perhaps if one of you i reporters would see some one connected with the Hygeia Ice Co. the origin of it name could be traced to the same con nection.
 And while I am on this subject word or two about the Hygeia's flea lures may be of interest. The mos striking are the wide verandas, whicI afford spacious and convenient prom enades, and during cold weather owe 15,000 square feet of them are encase in glass, enabling the most delicat invalid to enjoy the sunshine and fin water view without the slightest ex posture.
 But to go back to my original subjec The fact that so many Connection people have been booked for here dul ing September led me to speak thus ia of the hotel. To those who anticipat coming here it may be interesting t read of some of the places worthy of
 visit. Just in front of the hotel 1 Hampton Roads lies Fort Wool, or tn Rip Raps. The Rip Raps Is curiou and interesting work. It was intende, with Fortress Monroe, to command tn entrance channel to Hampton Road
 It is curious and interesting worl
 and is approached by an easy sail, b.
 ing two miles from shore. The islan was formed by droppirg Stos1es Dfn,