The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-06
MUNKITTRICK BY THE SEA.
A Well Known Hu1norfat WAKES EIoqusme
over Summer Resort.
lSnecial Correanondanna-l

full out of the way place to enjoy the
rest and quiet that cannot be had at the
resort that revels in brass bands and
merry go rounds. It is really the great
est place / have yet found for resting.
Everything about the place has a tend
ency to make one sleepy. If you take
a dip IN the sea at the usual bathing
hour-11 a. m--you will sleep all the
afternoon. heard one man down here
say that anything from German mus
tard to fried CLAIMS would act as a mar
cctic on most people. 1t is considered
rare treat by bathers to go back toward
the bluff and lie on the sand and roast
for an hour. It is a common thing to
see half a dozen men stretched on their
chests on the sand, with their heads
punched like the hub of a wheel, talking
Of this and that. The Siasconseter
claims that no man who has not indulg-
ed in this form of Iotos dreaming has
really lived. One Of the great arguments
in favor of this place is that people who
come here once invariably return the
following summer.
There is one family here at present
for the fifteenth consecutive season. 1t
is my third The first time / came IN
der protest, since which time 1 como
under the impression that it is the best
place know Of. 1t seems like an island
made for the south sea and put in this
spot by mistake 1t is plain United
States missionary work to mention it
for the benefit Of weary humanity.
In the first place, there are no mos
quitoes to keep you awake at night and
no brass bands to annoy you through
the day. You don't have to change your
clothes as often as a woman changes her
mind, which is the case at most re-
sorts. The air is always delightfully."-
cool and so dry that man with dropsy
can have himself, SO to speak, absorbed
and reduced to his usual conformation
in the course Of a week. have often
wondered at the temperature of the sea
at this point, which tho summer before
last by actual test was 10 degrees every
day but two during the entire summer
And although the bathing is not at its
best until the 1st of July it lasts until
October. Another feature about Sias-
conset is this-there is 10 high or low
tide. 1t is always about the same, and
you don't have to wait for bathing
hour, as you do in most places. 1t is
always ready, and the only reason there
is a special time for every one to go in
is for the sake Of sociability. Besides
swimming, walking Is considered a great
recreation, and there are good roads for
this form of exercise and pleasure, to
say nothing Of the moors, which are
really more delightful than the roads,
especially at sunset, when the skies are
something that cannot be described IN
point Of color and variety. Most people
who come here come to rest and escape
the CALLING fetters Of fashion
1 have frequently seen men wander
ing around a mile from home barehead-
ed and in their slippers. You can dress
any way, except in style, without Great
ing comment. A high hat would be re-
garded as theatrical and fantastic. and
patent leather shoes would place the
wearer's vanity within the pale OF crit
icism. There are two hotels here, and
at present they arc very well patronized,
as they should be. But most people
who come hero take cottages, which
they can have fully furnished for from
500 to $500 for the entire season. To
be sure, they arc very quaint structures,
most Of them consisting of one floor,
and in dark night you might stumble
over ono Of them and land in the back
yard. Still they arc very coy and com
Portable and abound in antique furni-
ture that was in use hero during the
palmy days Of tho whaling industry.
When you come to figure it out. you
will find that d SIOO furnished house
for four months is only $25 a month.
and you have more room than you
would in fat To run one of them it
costs a family of ordinary size about $75
a month. at an ordinary hotel it would
cost more than twice as much, and there
would be no privacy.
Many people who came here original
" as renters of these little houses have
bought land and built simple and IN
pretenti GUS houses. Such people have
more real pleasure in the course of a
summer than can be had at any hotel
or hotels For my part, / begin to look
forward to going to Siasconset at Christ
mas In other words, 1 exist in New
Jersey during abe winter that 1 may
live and dream on Nantucket island
during the summer The roads are fair
" good and are going to be much bet
ter before a great length Of time, because
the little teakettIe railroad that used to
afford the visitor SO much amusement
has been discontinued The locomotive
is rusting at the station, and the tracks
are running in every possible zigzag
and serpentine manner from SiascOnset
to Nantucket.
In some places they curl up like slices
Of English breakfast bacon, and at 9TH
ers they seem to ripple in the wind
And the man who used to ridicule this
little unpretentious comic railroad and
say it was more beneficial for dyspepsia
than for heart disease now sheds a ST.
lent tear Of regret as he dreams fondly
of the 80 cent excursion ticket of last
year and furnbles in his pocket for the
So bill necessary to transport him to
Nantucket by horse and wagon. Still
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