Year: 1870

towels failing to recognize Whh' supPoseu 10 oe
pen.wiper as one of the articles required. Towels"
echoed the servant do you tnB SIT hat this ho'ei
made OF tOwelsP


"Why have MT you more than one towel In the housel


certainly sir we We got any quantity OF towels or
rather we had. The other carried of this morn
ing by gentleman, who in receiving his change at the
Office put the towel in his pocketbook with some postal
currency We after him now, but haven't caught
him yet" supposngthe man foot and that train
like that had had been sent in pursuit OF him,
knew the chase hopeless. / ordered half dozen
towels peremptoIily and after nearly an hour the boy
returned with two ones, having exhausted the
market, and gwen new impetus to the fax trade


went to supper, but finding the greater part OF the
meal absorbed by the tabecloh drank glass OF warm
water and fought musketoes substitute for going 10
bed Gentle reader, If you should ever be within hfy
miles of the White River junction. be sure you stop be-
fore essenng the distance by foot Then turn around
and travel in the opposite direction.


Quitting the Junction by another accommodation train
(very accommodating for crpples who have been left
behnd) crawled TO Wells River The managers OF the
road reading the effect of high rate OF speed upon
passenger ordered them to be placed on board OF
freight and cattle train for Littleton, where arrived
lust IN time to wait hours before the coach set out
for the Profile After getting into the coach at the
hotel which very neat and comfortable, by the bye,
had to wait nearly two hours for the train IL
would not have arrived that night but happening to run
off the track made better time than usual There is an
end of all things they say wish could think 30 OF the
Junction HoteD, and after sufOcang ride In the heat
and dust with eleven passengers inside and one ortwo
crushed that they didn't count nine on top and several
distributed along the road arrived here hotter and
"madder man than had ever expected to be when
set out.


If there be anybody that have any particular reason
to hate let him come the Mountains by this route and
stop over at White River Junction, he values my de-
testatiOn.


/ You know am not what the splendid rowdy, Alei-
blades would have called a kephale handtike
in any senseI don't believe in the principle at all;
but am glad to find a house so excellent as this,
and TO say as much 1t the best In the Mountains and
II were going to stay among them for the season
should certainly take up my abode here. l may be
preudiced from the fact that have probably the best
In the hotel but all the rooms seem very neat
airy comfortable. This house is situated in what Is
called the Franconia Notch-he Notch is among the
White Mountains, Crawford'sand the mountains
rising abruptly all around it, and literally overshadow-
ing it, remind OF the Vale Of ChamOunix a small
scale. 1t would Nature, in landlords mood,
had cut out a place among these peaks and rolling
nights TO put hotel into and set some OF the most at
ractive features OF scenery within convenient distance
The Profile has not perhaps favorable position for
sightseeing as the old Flume House, six miles south Of


this but 1t is BETTER pecunarily speaking for the pro-
prietOrs of the Profile, who. having bought the Flume
House years ago. shut it up, except as place for





from letting horses and wag0ne to convey tourists
to the places of interest in the vicinity OF the
Flume House, from which, If there any boarders
there, the excursions might be made on foot.


first object of curiosity here is the famous Profile
or the Old the Mountain, visible 500 400 yards
from the hotel, most remarkable resemblance 10 the
outline OF the human face From The road about 1000
feet below the stone image looks so exactly as If 1t had
been cut with chisel that have known skephcal
persons to climb up Jackson Mountain and take the
roube with their eyes that Nature was the
only sculptor employed upon the overhanging clH which
is SO striking counterfeit The Profile is not solid as it
seems distance but consists of five granite blocks,
altogether 90 feet long Beneath the image is
small pond called the Old Mans Washbowl, and near the
cliff is a peculiarshaped rock which looks so much
like to give that name to the Profile Noun
| tain.


Half mile from the hotel in northerly direction, is
a very pretty piece of water known Echo Lake. The
echo is not awakened from the shore, but from boat
near the middle is repeated number Of times. The
drive the Fume extremely pleasant, bordering, as
il does the Pemigewasset River, and carrying you by
the Basin and in the vicinity of the Pool whose clear
waters large rocks and cool shade make 1t delightful
for dlers sentimentasts, and pic-nekers. The Basin
is bowlke cavity about 80 feet deep and 80 feet in
diameter caused by the whrlng OF large stones by the
force of the current in natural hollow of the rock The
sparkling water with which il is filled flows over and
down the rocks in several svery cascades The Fume
is rocky channel worn by the water, with perpendcu
sides, feet the bed OF stream
COOL wild, and curious place. ana the vast powder
resting between the two walls and threatening aPpar.
emily TO d M eyery R1emt @ toagh IN 81 reay tSa
locality The rocky channel about rs 80 feet broad
and probably quarter OF mile in length and gives
better idea Of the wearing OF water than can be
! bad anywhere among the mountains


theg are any nidr d , S Sns & = anu utipes IN IN
constantly coming and going from the hotel which Is the
large and solitary cottage owned by NewYoffer is
the house, the Dhabtng family taking their meals
cook and table walters. The season is at its hight.
The hotel full and will be until the end OF the month,
The fiery temperature OF the past six weeks has
been favorable TO all the Summer resorts certainly to
sons quarered comfortably NewYOrk is more largely
represented at the Profile this than it has been
before, though the bulk OF visitors from New-En
| gland. The arrivals and departures constant;
great many persons remaining only day or tT0 and md
Profile has more regular boarders than any hotel In the
July, and remain until the beginning middle of Sep
tebe according TO the state OF the Thermometer The
In England which claim be rstolass and to eater
for fashionable patronage meaning the people ambitious
Is nof that sp1a HHfy salvation depends SO
much clothes here 1t does the island OF Manhat
tan albeit the prospect OF the best womans getting 10
Heaven if she changes her gown only twice day is not
brilliant according 70 the accepted authorities who wor
ship Paris and pray morning. noOn and night to the God
dess OF Mode What style country hours observed
with margin Of an hour for lazy folks who have not had
the benefit OF NewEngland training 1t is trihe incOn
NeDlent especially III ne ever mas nad
the misfortune 10 be connected with morning newspa-
pers, to be up and dressed at o'clock; but
nothing 20 do after II In the eyenng-hey have night
in this region except what the Almanac contains
he forced to go to bed and to rise betimes having
usually exhausted Sleep about daylight, | a


firm believer in the virtue of late rising and all appeals
TO my sympathy In behalf Of the that caught
for being abroad early having been utterly abortive
/ understand the feeling of of Le Sages heroes
who refused TO leave his bed at q. III. fight a duel
vowing he would not appear in public at snch un-
righteous hour escort Venus to olympus but accepted
the challenge for midday went out at that hour
was duly made romantic subject for the undertaken
What the Of quitting the city TO day
light fort The next time come 10 New wEngland in
tend 10 bring with me luncheon enough 10 last until
return place where people understand that the spirit
.lt.Ia