The herald., 1895-09-01

IN THE FLOWER PARADE.
boa. club house on the lake is a trihe SMART
| er. but by no means large. Canoeing, row.
| ing and sailing are practiced, and, though
| the lake is but about mile long, there is ia
be regatta during the month for the Stokes
cup.
OF course The boat club is called the
Lake Mah-Kee-Nac." This is hardly fair
to the old name of the 'Stockbsidge Bowl"
which really gave the region its vogue, and
deserves better treatment. Mr.. William d.
| Curtis, who has been in Lenox since 1853,
says that even at that date a few smart"
people had begun coming to Lenox and the
| Berkshire hills. attracted doubtless by what
had been written of the life there of people
like Holmes, Bryant Longfellow, Mrs.
| Sigourney, Mrs. Martiueau. Fanny Kenlble,
| Mrs. Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, N.
| p. Willis, G. w. Curtis, David Dudley
Field, Herman Melville. G.. P. R. James,
| Fields. Dewey. Holland, Sumner. Bellows.
| Evarts, ,Beecher. Phillips Brooks, Winthrop,
Emerson, Sargent, Lowell, Thoreau-really
| the list is long enough to establish for the
Stockbridge Bowl. which was what all these
people called 1t, fame something like that
| of the English lake district.
| And a pretty name it is. and well it de.
| scribes the rounded contour Of the lake and
the way in which it nestles deep down among
| the green hills
! One doesn't hear much in Lenox OF mar
ried women gofing or rowing or trampihg
1
have taken to the wheel with enthusiasm.
| riding in tan leggipgs with anklehigh
skirts, never in bloomers. The passion OF
the women Of maturer years at the moment
ture and "auld knck-knockets"
| for the furnishing of their stately homes.
which are usually in the colonial style. Ali
western Massachusetts is rich In colonial ex.
amples being long-settled, prosperous and
little changing community. should say
A. L. IT,. k,,n R.,n
| ton of colonial wares as there is in the coun.
try. Cornelius Vanderbilt and President
Cleveland have taken $1,000 worth each of
| colonial furniture out OF Berkshire county,
for Newport AMI Gray Gables. Mr. Auson
| Phelps Stocks hls in his great house many
colonial rooms and one Dutch room, with
| painted side walls and ceiling, which Is the
| wonder OF those privileged to see it,
There is little trace of the literary colony
| in and about Lenox. John Sloane's "Wynd-
| hurst stands where Beecher's summer home
| was torn down. BryanU's home stands, not
much changed, at a turn in the Stockbridge
| road Hawthorne's house has left no trace
| but a cellar wall overgrown with weeds.
Fanny Kembles cottage is occupied by Mrs.
! Thompson. High on the hill which Bryant
| used TO climb, overlooking the Bowl stands
| Charles Laniers cottage ''Allen Winden," or
"ail winds'-open to every breeze that blows
| the highest and some say the fairest OF all
the Lenox places Others yield the palm to
William D. Sloanes Elm court. long, low
| building powered in greenery and looking
| out upon the lake from many jutting DOR
mer window and broad, vine shaded porch,
upon its own brilliant gardens and the lake
beyond.
/ Lenox is land for autumn dreams, land
| of hills and lake and forest, a land Of bril-
| liant color, the abode above all places else,of
| the September girl-the girl who walks and
, drives and golfs; whose cheeks are bright
and whose step is light, who has bad the
whole beautifu ul summers rest to at her for
the more beautiful autumn among the
| Berkshres.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAroN.