Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-22

Lake Placid, N. Y. July 21.-The Alpen-
stock of the mountain maid is an article
that at first blush you might take for a
long-handled tennis racket or a new
tangled carpet beater.
When the guileless Adirondack you'll
wishes to turn an honest penny, ne cuts
a sapling of the proper height and thick
ness to make a good stick. and laces and
interlaces it's twigs about the upper half
in the most intricate patterns. Some
times the stick is peeled, sometimes the
bark is left on. Sometimes ribbons are
added for decoration, sometimes the rule
is beauty unadorned. In any event the
result is unique and inspires in the breast
Of the mountain maid an instant longing
to have it as a souvenir. When she ad-
ventures Mt. Marcy or Whiteface, a
neatly rolled umbrella is quite as apt to
be the only alpenstock for which she has
occasion.
The mountain maid of this season is
not as of other years. The multiDlica-
ton of railways, steamboats, on the lakes.
stage rOutes-there is even a trolley line
in operation to Raquette lake. in the
heart Of the Adirondack wilds-has
brought in trunks as big as houses, and
turned camps into Newport cottages.
The train that brought me from New
York was packed like a Brooklyn bridge
car; people who woul have boarded 1T
at Albany were unable to do so because
there was not even standing room IN the
aisles or vestibules. At Utica this thrOng
of summer folk turned with one accord
towards the ~Adirondacks, and yesterday
I marked one of the results of such an
influx in the person of a lady obliged by
the breakdown of the usual conveyance
to walk the Garry between two lakes
in a dress filter for Fifth avenue.
Picture to yourself a perfect day.
When blu and green are glad together.
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ting out the sky, cut not destroying the
impending sense Of mountains. Behind,
the wash of lake waters. in front a mar
row track OvergrOWn with moss and un-
even with roots intruded upon by black
berry tangle. crossed here and there by
mountain streams.
Traversing this forest highway came a
delicate, a delicious blue silk dress, cut
to lie with the most graceful sweep, about
six inches on the ground. This under
skirt of this dainty, summary creation
was finished with a deep, accordion
pleated flounce of black lace, above which
hung the long, narrow blue silk tunic
scalloped at the bottom and edged with
a black silk cord laid in fantastic de-
signs. The slightly full bodice, with the
same spidery, black decoration, SHOWED a
yoke Of white satin covered with Renais-
sance lace applique. Above a mass Of
fluffy, light hair was perched a big ha
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roses.
AS this figure, like a bit of French
bisque, tripped uncertainty from root t.
root, holding up it's draperies over q
fragile white lace petticoat. and followed
by a maid carrying a dog and a parasol
nothing more homogeneous with the Tins
and place could be imagined. SO appa-
rently thought an Adirondack guide az
he passed with the long, Looping step tina
takes a woodsman over the ground a
such a wonderful pace, shouldering hi:
huge back basket.
At the larger hotels dinner dress and
evening hops are as much the rule as il
within a few hundred yards a deer NIGH
not be browsing;and yet in spite of these
lnroads of civilization, or perhaps be.
cause of them, the mountain maid with
her morning face is a pleasant spectacle
Whether she elects to climb Whiteface o.
to go fishing, her course is to the lake.
side.