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Show e- ; Par Harbor Air. Letter to Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. My friend laughed and said: "Don't you know? It is the old story, the experience of all who come here. It is the Bar Harbor air." Then he showed me what Charles Dudley Warner had said about it : "This activity, this desire to row and walk and drive and to become acquainted, was all due to the air. It has a peculiar quality. Even the skeptic has to admit this. It composes his nerves to sleep, it stimulates stimu-lates to unwonted exertion. The fanatics of the place declare that the fogs are not as at other places on the coast. Fashion can make even a dry fog. But the air is delicious. In this latitude, and by reason of the hills, the atmosphere is pure and elastic and stimulating, stim-ulating, and it is softened by the presence of the sea. This union gives a charming effect It is better than the Maine law. The air being be-ing like wine, ono does not need stimulants." stimu-lants." My own experience teaches me that these statements of Warner's are perfectly true. I have felt all the effects he speaks of and added to them an artortite and eniovmcnt of food I have not known for years. Says Hassard of Bar Harbor: "Nowhere, except in the Mediterranean, have I seen waters of such a brilliant blue as those which wash the coast of Frenchman's bay. The charm of color, which is lacking on most of our sandy Atlantic seaboard, is felt in all its perfection here, where the quiet ocean rivals the tints of the clearest sky, and the border of the bare cliffs gray granite and pink and ruddy brown divides the wave from the light-green meadow and the somber wood, with white birch gleaming among the dark pines." But Hassard does not say anything about a sunset over Bar Harbor and Frenchman's bay, and to do justice to that would require the pen painting of a Lafcadio Hern or a Sunset Cox. mm. |