Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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gentAvith the acrid smoke of green wood,and many children—round, good-uat- characteristic work of these people thesurvival of the instinctive taste of semi-savage races, and the total lack of it ineveiwthing else. The designs cut onthe l)ark of their canoes, the cunninglyblended colors in their basket - work,are tliorou<ihly good in their way; butcontact with a higher civilization seemsto have aflected them as it has theJapanese, turning their attention chief-ly to making napkin-rings and collar-boxes, and to a hideous delight in taw-dry finery, which is fondly, thou^di dis-tantly, modelled on current Americanfashions. Bar Harbor drinks the cup of sum-mer standing. In mid-April the snowmay lie six feet deep, and before theend of October long icicles are oftenhanging on the north side of the rocks,wliile even in August the northernlights shoot up their quivering, spec-tral spears from the horizon to the ze-nith. Some fierce days of heat thereare in Julv, but on the whole the tern-
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DRAWN BY C. S. REINHART. Climbing Newport Mountain. 274 BAR HARBOR peratiu-e is decidedly arctic, especiallyto one accustomed to a less ligorousclimate. In New York we are used tohaving the kindly fruits of the earthbrought to us long before their naturalseason, and it sounds strangely to betold at Bar Harbor tliat the first gardenstrawberries may be looked for aboutthe fourth of July, and that June lilieswill bloom early in August ; but suchtritles only give one a feeling of chasingthe summer, as climate-fanciers followthe si3iing, and are certainly not tobe reckoned as grievances. The peo-l)le who have a certain very slight rightto complain are the artists, who, havingheard of the beauties of Mount Desert,come pre2:)ared to carry away at least areminder of them on canvas or paj^er.They find that they have fallen upon as2Dot almost entirely deficient in whatjminters term atmosphere, and ofwhich the characteristic effects almostdefy reproduction. In what is knownas a real Bar Harbor d

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