The evening times., 1895-08-28
HAS FLED TO THE HILLS
Society Forsakes the Sea
shore for LenOX.
YACHTS GIVE NAY TO WHEELS
Well-Known Young Women
Who Ride at the Fa-
nous Resort.

Lenox, Aug. -Lenox Is fast resoiv-
ing itself into one vast sanitarium for the
comfort and the healing of the tired in body
and weary of spirit.
The great, low cottages that spread over
huge lawns, like the couatry retreats
to which invalids &c. for recuperation. are
being throw nopen and made gay withham-
mocks and aw wnings. showing that the
cases" which retocome to them are not
too serious to enjoy. pretty surroundings.
And the stables are filling up with fine
horses to carry the society .uyalids over the
mountain slopes until they get strong enough
to cycle up and do W such hills an Lenox af
fords
without LeDox we should die" is
the unanimous exclamation OF the cot
tagers, who tumble into their sy Ivan
retraeat as soon as the Newport season
of high dissipation is over, and getting
strong again at LcnoX'' is .as much a
part of the years routine as the grand
opera, or the spring trip to Europe.
MUST. OWN A MOUNTAIN.
TOappreciate LeDox you must be familiar
with a mountain place. Fancy seventeen
hills, all rising within five miles of each
other, with seventeen valleys lying be-
tween; fancy seventeen mountain sides,
with drives running along them, seventeen
lovely submits and seventeen great, broad
ridges around the summit, and you ave
LeDoX. There are just as beautiful and Just
as well arranged mountain places else
where, but it happens that ut Lenox society
happened to Settle, and hence the great
worldwide reputation of the place.
Each family at ,Lenox owns a mountain.
Not TO have a mountain upon ones estate
shows that one has very small plot of Ia nd,
indeed. This would allow only seventeen
families at Lenox. but as some Of the es-
tatcs run back Il long ways and take in
distant hills, all can lie provided with the
mountainous adjunct required.
The center of Lenox is a small hotel, not
grand at all, except for the table, which is
exquisite. The hotel itself is not quite
as preteptious as the winged farmhouse,
at which you stopped to get glass of milk,
Dor is its veranda as wide. Woe to the one
who lodges there. But the table is so good
and the view SO excellent that wealthy cot
tagers drive two miles three times q day
to get their food instead of bringing
reluctant chef to Lenox. Opposite the
hotel is the postoffice, and lying acruss
is beautiful little Trinity, in which Adele
Sloane was married, and the gallery of
which was entirely filled with Harvard
students, her husbands classmates.
The Sloane family are at LcnoX now.
And, indeed, without them the place would
be as bare as Newport without its great
est family. Their house is Very long and
very low one, called Elm Court because of
the eims that hide it, and, as the badinage
of the young people ms, because so much
courting has been done beneath these same
dignified elms.
The two cottages of the Gebhard family
are Just being occupied. One, the cottage
of Mr.. Gebhard, is near little Trinity. 1t
looks like the parsonage of a country church.
Nothing about it suggests luxury, except
the stables that lie at the rear. These are
spacious, and one does not wonder at hear
ing that AIR. Gebhard's drag, his coach, his
blackboard. his T-carts, and his tandem have
all been placed inside the walls this week,
and that his road phaetons are on the way,
being driven here by some of the servants.
SMALLEST WOMAN OF THE 400.
1t is luxurious household which Mr.
Gebhard maintains. His sister, Mrs. Neil
son, who is the tinicst woman of the 400,
lives directly opposite and is bringing out
this season pretty daughter, who patron
ICES Uncle Freddy" chides him in public
and plays at older sister, like her mother,
in the most amusing way.
In the old bachelor" days of Frederick
Gebhard this Lenox cottage boasted twelve
servants, all men, and as the man chef went
to Europe every summer, Mr.. Frederick
was obliged TO take bis meals at the hotel
Except at occasional rare luncheons n