The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-12-08
DELIGHTFUL PINEHIJRST
AN IDEAL NORTH CAROLINA
HEALTH RESORT.
what DIR. Edward Everett Hale, Who
IS Regular Visitor to This Charm.
ing Place of Ease, and Rest, and
Recreation Says About it-An Adj
vertisement Money Couldn't Buy.

ing Place of Ease, and Rest, and
Recreation Says About it-An Ad-
vertisement Money Couldn't Buy.
Charlotte Observer)
In the Pinehurst Outlook for last
month there is a beautiful letter to
IT'S editor from the venerable Rev.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston.
who has spent some weeks at Pine
hurst each two yearcs past The
editor says that after his hard
winters work in Boston he comes
down Unto the woods and refreshes
himself by preaching each Sunday,
dedicating church now and then,
making addresses and reading his
stories for various good causes, and
fllling up their intervals with writing
the numerous books, lectures and
literary articles which he always has
on hand" Speaking of his last visit
to the pine woods of Moore county,
DR.. Hale writes to The Outlook editor
the following letter, which would be
worth It's space on account of it's
fires h, attractive style, if there were
nothing else to commend it:
Ever since that l have been say
ing to tired people, and people who
have notes to meet, .swhv don't YOU
go to Pinehurst? At Pinehurst," |
have said, ''there is no care At
Pinehurst you do just as you choose
At Pinehurst you sim ply breathe
sweet air and drink pure water
under the blue sky and meet pleas
ant people, and you do not know
that there is any worry in the world
Why do you not sell all that you
have and with the money buy tickets
to Pinehurst9 I generally say that
they cost fifteen dollars and half
apiece; | am not quite sure whether
this is true, but hope it is because
l have said so often. l generally
say also that it is no matter about
return tickets, because they will
never want to come back again.
Simply and really, my recollection
Of Pinehurst is Of a place where no.
body worried me, where 1 was not
afraid of anybody, where l wanted to
get out of bed when l woke in the
morning, and wanted go.,to' bed. when
itscame to be half past 9 at night.
Is not this, perhaps, the method ,.of
the next century? If one were to
imagine an ideal home, would he not
say that it was place where the
drainage had been arranged first and
the water supply second and the
light for the night third, and the
houses fourth, and what you ate and
drink last? Would he not say there
was nice postotfice and postmistress
and a nice shop with nice people to
keep the shop, and that you bought
things cheaper than you ever bought
anything in your life before, and
there was a nice room to spend the
evening in, with lecture or a con-
not this describe Pinehurst?
This is what I say to the outside
people. Now,
No. 2. There is an inside aristoc-
racy at the North. This consists of
the people who have been at Pine
hurst. Those are the highest in
rank-they are sort of dukes--who
have been there three years. The
marquises and barons come next;
they have been there two years.
And then come the baronets and
knights, and they are the people who
have been there one year. You meet
them all with sort of Freemason
grasp; you have a wink of the eye
which says, 1--WE have been to Pine
hurst, and nobody else has! We
know all about it." And these peo-
pie ask how Mr., Hodgin's peaches
are getting on, and they ask about
the McNei1ls and the Netherlands and
the McGregors, and they ask what
has been going on in the Village Hall.
They ask if Mr.. Everett is there, or
Mr.. Beale is there, and how long Mr..
Tufts stays.
Then YOU turn round and say to
them: ..Why are you freezing in
Boston? Why are you not in Pine
hurst?' Then they say that the war
has come on and that they are afraid
stocks will fall or that Spanish
frigate will lombard a country resi-
dence at Little Boar's Head. Then
you say: You are fool. If you go
to Pinehurst there will be no Spanish
frigates, and you will forget all about
stocks, and, in short, enter into life
there as you do not anywhere else. "
| rLan thny 10y .h~t ~. :, GO and
they have been fools, and they go
home and pack their coat boxes az ar
vcu see them before you 'f"' via
J letter. h. NAV
call the aristoeracy of Plnehurst en-
larres every year. All of US are
rrs9eful to Mr. Tufts and MIR. Ben
BOW and the Messrs. Spinney ana &c
General Darlington and to the com
missioners of Moore county and &c
the justices of the peace OF Minera
Springs township, and to Mr.
Picken, the minister OF Mount heuia'
church, and to Mr.. Olmstead ana Mr
Atwood and MIR. Sise, and to MRS
Jpham. and to everybody else "n'
has done so much to introduce IN
twentieth century and its-methoas a
the end of the nineteenth. IN his
nlaces and in low places, we ao'ls
other people to Ego south yo"n n
men," and to Ego oou'h'
woman." And when they ask u
Where w.nD to go. we tell them to 60
Southern Pines and look out LOT
trolley. which has a nice Mr.. 81,
lings for its minister, ana lna' ; =
viii take them to the promise
Heaven. All who have any sense =
Some of us have to stay mere ~
beaI the hurt of our people. 81
this we are sorry for. and we SET
our affectionate regards to all WI