Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-17
At SWEET cHALYBEATE.
Alexandrians Rusticating in this
Delightful Virginia Summer
Resort.
q The Alexandria Gazette.

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Perferyid days have marked the
midsummer record of weather for
this pretty dell with its health CIV
ing waters and multitude of pictur-
esque trees, the like OF which God
never intended should be duplicated
elsewhere and yet though the wealth
er wretch has done his -, we
slumber thro' innocent dreams under
the protective blankets that seem
ia belle the tropic activity of the
DAYS. The top notch has been seor-
ed and standing room only is told
BY the hotel and its outstanding cot
tages with their hammocks, easy
chairs and awnings.
Yesterday Heavens water faucets
ungripped and cooling showers
brought peace to one sacrificlai
libations for parchins earth-for
we indeed, have not writhed unoer
souls knowing the need elsewhere
the lack OF aqueous showers. me
lads and lasses of the colony tried
their ingenius best on Friday even
to produce a worthy bal masque,
and whoever heard of Virginia folk
falling in any endeavor? The tram
of consequences and picturesque ran
I'D into fifty in number. Clowns hav-
ing innings with the flower girls,
court ladies and geishas; the merry
widow doing turn with a black
face and Carmen entering a Joust
with a savage of the plains. The
Virginia reel gave opportunity for
some fancy steps which were not
lacking. The orchestra, with which
this resort is blessed, has not Its
superior in the realms Of classic arts
in this country. "Lohengrin, Aida :
"Rusticana," Norma" Martha, !"
and all the other beloved operas are
rendered by these master minds and
hands. Just now the Moonlight
Sonata" fingers wooingly on the
evening air and bushes the song OF
the envious birds in the tree tops.
Occasionally we are treated 10
Dixie to which We rise in memory
of that half century ago when our
ragged boys in grey won victories
from the legions of the North. 'Old
Black Joe" and Annie Laurie and
Knocking Bird" are sometimes Civ
en- in Difference TO the old South
habitues by this mastery Crum
Band, all members of one family
Among the Alexandria folk rus
ticating here none is more genial
and friendlike than the invincible
Cha rles Bennett Marshall, round,
inimitable, with many killing yarns
that match his other gifts. John
Marshall, a good second In pleas
entry with Mrs Marshall next door
neighbor to brother Charlie and his
spouse.
Alexandria has also sent down A.
n. Oehlert and Ashland S. B. Rice,
SO we'll known in Alexandria.
These have engineered trips by car
riage to Beaver Dam, Peters Noun
tain and other vantage points a
few miles distant and will extend
their operations to White Sulphur
for a day or so before returning to
the routine of commercialism and
continued in our next" 1912.
humdrumity hoping, however, ito be
So the sweet summer is waning,
the firefies say, the whipperwill tells,
and majesic September will soon be
here the advance guard of farewells
TO pretty aisles Of green, purling
brooks and song Of the forest min
strsls.
One may wonder how these paths
may seem in hoary winter under
their white blanket, and one may
stay his dreams to remember with
sigh the many DANES and gentle
men of our leisure class who will
tread no more these walks by field
and stream yet whose children and
grand children may come instead to
rejoice with each other in the beauty
Of this sylvan spot.