Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19

Weekly in the last issue will be of inter
|st to every resident of Idaho Springs,
OF to mention the fact that those who
We in other sections of the country will
|ndoubedly profit, should they read the
mes following. 1t was written by Fitz
|1ac, one of the best know newspaper
nd magazine writer's in the entire west,
|nd man who has visited every point
1orth seeing:
"If you want to see the Rocky noun
ant to see them where they live if
ou want to get right up close to their
cart so that you can feel it throb, if you
|ant to educate your own emotions by
study of nature in its forms of beauty
md granduer that are unfamiliar to the
|lonotonous experiences of your life, if
our senses are tagged by mouotony, if
our strength has been exhausted by
rudgery, if your nerves have been over
rained by anxiety, if you are piuing in
|nrequitted love, if you are grieving in
be lonesome sorrow of bereavement, re-
|entful of the formulated expressions of
|Dcial sympathy, yet yearning for the
brge, unspoken sympathy of ever-gener-
| us, ever-syfnpathIzing "ature; or, If you
re in the very b oom of health and hap
! |iness and desire only to store your heart
|ith treasure of beautiful memories of
|tesh, wholesome and unique experiences
|lhile you have youth and health and en-
|husiasm to enjoy them-then you want
p go to Idaho Springs.
"More men and women have fallen in
bve with each other and married and
we'd happily together, who met first at
IDAHO Springs more lovely girls have
bet their fate aud sealed their earthly
happiness in the arms of sturdy and
worthy young fellows at Idaho Springs
han at any other pleasure and health re-
|ort in the United States.
"More middIe-aged men and women
|gho had thought themselves too old or
|oo sensible, or too hardened by the dis
of life to love again, have
bet and loved and welded at Idaho
|prings than at any other place in the
korld.
"More grieving aud lonely hearted wild
ws, in all the pathetic beauty of sable
|obes and veiled, tear-stained faces, have
ragged themselves, hopeless and heavy
|ooted, to Idaho Springs to grieve out
heir passionate sorrows in seclusion
gainst natures great, sympathizing
|reast, yet have gone away trippingly
NTH faces RADIANT in happy smiles within
few brief months on the arms of hand
|ome and athletic mining millionaires
han has ever happened anywhere else in
|he world since Noah left the ark-this
by indisputable machine count at the
kate and the affidavit lat the altar of in
crested land Interestingly parties.
"More bent, shambling, thin-haired /,
|oothless, mumbling, dyspeptic, miserly,
|uspicious old plutocrats who had de-
Eoted the best years of their lives to the
letting and boarding of wealth and let
their hearts shrivel to the condition of an
bver-dried prune-old men hating their
Waiting heirs and more or less suspicious
bf everybody, have come to Idaho Springs,
Ind, at the end of their unhappy journey
through life, discovered the fountain of
happiness in the solicitious sympathy of
Hrinkled, rheumatic old dowagers in wig
md store teeth, skimping along on army
pensions and the like, and have fallen in
owe with those supernaturally shrewd old
kirls and covered them them with dia-
|nonds, and after frisking around the
Magnificent mountain drives and path
|yays like ardent boys, have been induced
by the wholesome and invigorating infu-
Ences of the place to conclude that the
bnly thing for a man of character and
means to do is to found family more
bf those old, unhappy people have dis
lowered each other toward the end of
Efe's Journey at Idaho Springs than has
[ver happened elsewhere since God made
title apples. Every day we see pair or
wo of such frisky old boys and girls, re-
|tored to the vigors of youth by the
magic of the place, prancing off to the
liter with the roses of October blooming
Pn their sagging cheeks.
"And those unions invariably result in
weet companionship for the remainder