The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-22
(Charity and Children.)

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pr,a Mont this year. There are three
or four hundred people present and
4hay are Of the right sort. There are
hi, men with double DIS attached to
.h.fr names, and business men who
o~. not fools about hot and cold
wafer. and matrons with their Chill
dr.n about them enjoying housekeep-
inc in the cottages, n young men
and maidens VINO occasionally stroll
,'naor the Shadows" and saying
tbfnas TO each other that We're never
jntanded for anybody else's ears, and
children of all sorts and sizes romping
aver the grass and having the time of
their lives
Put they are all sensible people. 1t
Is 2 privilege to mingle among them
for 4 day or two. If they are fash
ionsbIa at home they are not fash
jonabIe at Blue Mont. The preachers
wear snort thin coats and the boys
vvnar no coats at all. The ladies dress
in perfect accord with the weather
and never go on parade. We noticed
one girl whose father can write his
cheek for a million with a costume on
that probably cost s1.40. h folks
90 there for physical, mental and
s]niritual n~Ourishment and that can
NOT be had with DR.. Stages burial
robes or Dame Fashions hobble
skirts.
And Blue Mont is serene and high.
], offers a vast outlook with the blue
dome 50 close by and the soft rich
m0untainsides encirclins the grounds.
The simple cottages shining through
the trees on the mO~untainsides, all
snowy white, make a pretty picture of
domestic peace and rest to a locker
on from one of the many elevations,
and the noisy trains winding their
way from Asheville and darting into
the big hole in the mountain like a
huge mole trying to escape a cat, add
To the variety of tie picture and
break the solemn stiffness of The sui
try day.
\ great intellectual feast is spread
each day for the happy inha6tants.
Dr. Sampey. of Louisville, KY, and
DR.. Inflow. of Nash lille. Tenn, were
the star figures las week. They are
very engaging speakers indeed. DIR.
Sampey is one of the leading scholars
of this country and his mastery word
paintings of such men as jeremiah.
DanieI. Habakkuk and many other Old
Testament statesmen, are superb. We
have never heard popular lectures on
any topic that were quite so charming
and brilliant as these splendid adj
dresses by DR.. Sampey. DR.. Mo is
a great preacher. and the sermon we
oI OoIH ZIG DdpNESt 'to
than worth the trip.
They told US that the program of
last week was only a sample Of what
the people nave been enjoying through
the season. It is not worth while to
say there ought to be a thousand
there, for Blue Mont is fuller than it
can hold now. The hotel man could
offer us only a cot with a lot OF
Youngsters in the same room, but
Editor Moore. with his Astounding hos
pitaIity and b~rotherly kindness, open
ed the doors Of Laurellodge, and the
breeze from the crest Of the ridge
swept through the room while the
jewellers on the plains sweltered
through the night. That was indeed
a sweet and restful night and it's de-
light was deepened because Rev. w.
H. Rich, of Macon, Ga, was another
guest.
Our fellow-worker and his family
are fixed up all right. Their summer
home is a dream, and from the front
porch the view is beyond the power OF
words to express. Hard by the home
of our general manager nestles among
the trees, and Mrs. kesler and the
children are as happy as the Moores.
The neXt-door neighbOr to the kesler
home is that of DR.. and Mrs. Bell, OF
Atlanta, Ga, and with a good news
paper man on each side Of him Bro
heSler is in high society.
The urgent and vital need Of Blue
Mont is a fine hotel. A barn Of q
thing costing SIC, 900 or $4,000 will
not meet this need. A modern hos
telry with all the necessary equip
ment Will more than double the at
tendance next year. and it will brins
a class of people who will take a n
naneial interest in the beautiful place
and help to develop it.
DIT. Sampey sounded the keynote
when he said that Blue Mont IS no
merely a summer resort in the com
mon acceptance Of the term. 1t is
that, but it is much more. 1t is {
place where body. mind and sp1r1
may be nourished and strengthened
and in their equal and proper proper
ton. Proper amusement must be
provided. but improper rigidly ex
Guided. This is the ideal to which tht