Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-09-20
WAYSIDE TALK.

| The summer hotel business is practi-
cally over for the season. Many people
will tarry among the mountains until
October /, few later; but there will
soon be shutting and barring of doors
until another nine months roll around.
10 the majority of owners and mana
gers the seasons work has been salts.
factory. Those who have not found ii
SO should look well into the facts of the
case, and see wherein the trouble lies.
Experience is great teacher, and if we
give heed to her lessons we can but
grow wiser and stronger. Summer re-
sort business is very sensitive one.
Guests who visit a locality year after
year expect to see Improvements intro
duced; roads made better, paths
trimmed up, shade trees planted; and
more than all, they expect to see the
house in which they spend a few weeks
made more attractive as the owner gets
on in the world. 1t is true that many
can not afford to improve their places
as they would like to, but little things
can be done which in the whole count
for much. There is no better time to
consider home and town Improvements
! than after the close of prosperous
summer boarding season. Every one
who has an eye to business should de-
eide in the fall just what, if anything,
can be done to his hotel, boarding
house or rhome, as the case may be, that
he may better prepared for another
year. The progressive man can always
lind something to do to add to the at
tractiveness of his place, and the little
things enter very largely into the sue
cess or failure of a summer resort.
We well remember when diphtheria
first broke out in "our district" in lit
tie New Hampshire town. Consterna-
ton was depicted upon the face of every
one; and well it might be. Doctors
skill was of no avail in a large number
of cases, and from that day to this the
disease has stalked through the
length and breath of the land, the most
dreaded of all contagious. Medical
science has not been asleep, however,
and we know of those in the profess
ion who assert with the greatest conf
dence their own ability to cope success
fully with diphtheria. Now, word
comes from over the water that a Ger
man remedy has been discovered which
is claimed to be an almost certain cure
for it. More than that, diphtheria is
soon to be classed with small pox. in
that preventative medicine can ward it
off entirely. What may we not expect
from medical science? Certainly this
is an age Of wonderful progress and
eminent doctors head the profession.
An honor to the woman of the Ash
iand district III Kentucky. They have
ssst IN politics and have won. Breck-
inriage has been defeated. Woman's
Influence, added to the powerful work
of lAs opponent, carried the day. Never
wasNhere such a fierce fight waged be-
tween those who care for social purity
and sthose who do not, as in this can
vas.8 Such was the determination on
the part of the women of Lexington
thata prayer meeting was held on cleo
ton day and the cry went up to the
Supreme Ruler of the Universe for de-
liVefance from Breckinridge. The
prayers of the noble women of Ken
tucks have been answered, for they
worked as well as prayed Kentucky
has ss.t the pace, and for his misdeeds,
disoNned her once favorite son. Let
men If the Breckinridge stripe beware
of politics. 1t is dangerous business to
fauni vice before the women of the
country; they will not stand it.