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PR^AC' SNTS FOR SEASHORE ENJOYMEI AVOID TOO MUCH SUN - BATHING -
DRINKING - GAMBLING -
SLEEPLESSNESS - BOREDOM -
DO EVERYTHING IN MODFRATION
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Daily Picayune - August 19, 18^9 - t> 2 col 5
THE WATERING PLACES
Hints Relative to the Proper Mode of Passing One's Time at the Summering Places in the Neighborhood of Our City
In the beneficient arrangements of Providence, New Orleans is encomoassed with all those accommodations requisite to secure the health and refreshment of its inhabitants during the summer season.
The natural advantages of the Bay of St. Louis. Pass Christian, Biloxi and Pascagoula are not inferior to those of rhe most celebrated watering places in the Northern and Middle States.
But many who have recourse to these favored seats of salubrity and rural delights are grievously disappointed. They sigh after the comforts which they have left behind. They complain that the air on the sea-shore is quite as intemperate and oppressive as that of the city. Perhaps where they expected to enjoy a plenitude of health, they are assailed with forms of disease, or debility never before experienced.
Dissatisfied and discouraged, they suddenly embark for Ndw Orleans or some other place, pouring out their maledictions on the atmosphere, the bathing conveniences, the hotels, the tables, etc., because all their extravagant anticipations have not been at once realized.
The, fact is, such persons expect too much from a short, transitory and hurried sojourn at the watering places. They ask for blessings which nature cannot bestow, without being endowed with the power of working miracles.
Now, these disappointments are owing, in nearly every instance, to gross imprudences and indiscretion. Not infrequently, gentlemen who pass their days while in the city secluded from the rays of the sun, have been known on their rural excursions to spend hours at a time in fishing, unprotected by so much as even an umbrella from the overpowering violence of the hottest weather of July or August.
Sunburn