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supporting- arched roofs and springing wreaths of vines cast lustre over wide lawns, is the most delightful along- the coast.
When twilight lends mystic light it presents a gala sight; fine turnouts bearing animated youth and beauty, children building houses of sand or chasing the last sunbeam of the dying- day, skiffs with dainty occupants gliding- over the waves, boats with spreading- wings sailing- to and fro, gay songs of fishermen chiming in the swish-swash, lip-lapping, of the billowy sea. bathers in blue and white costumes, combine to render it alluringly attractive. At night when the
The Salt Water Bathing' along Bay St. Louis and Mississippi Sound is invigorating,
moon’s resplendence throws silvery pathways leading athwart the rippling waters to the horizon piled with fleecy hills, holding blooms of light about misty valleys th.at circle the regent of night, while in reflected glow a million torches spring from vales ’mid sapphire glow, it is a Venice.
Awake at dawn and view the birth of day, ' ui foldJug the first glance of old Sol. Watch his eyes shoot ftf-*>><of llions of golden gleams, that creep along in thread ](	if pale
amber over the meadows and woodlands, that stucj	v hill,
valley and glen, with gems of brilliant hue, and a world of beauty lies before us.
Union street, one of the principal thoroughfares, leads directly from the beach, commonly termed Front street, to the depot of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad The station is large and airy and looks out upon a broad stretch of woodland fragrant with the breath of pine, sloping lanes, shadow-flecked roads, valleys lying at the base of vesture graced hills, white shelled lanes, canopied here and there by locust trees
Sailing and Yachting is another popular and healthful sport.
dropping sweet scented blossoms and houses resting in rustic bowers.
Bay St. Louis was entered by Iberville and its banks settled upon by a French colony nearly 200 years ago. The explorers found a beautiful sheet of water, two miles wide at its mouth, and expanding as it stretched toward the interior, between its forest clad borders. It receives the tributary waters of three streams, the Boisdore. Pontage and Wolfe rivers of our day, and the Jourdan river on the westward