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perseverance in carrying it to a successful consummation. It 

 has received unusually favorable endorsement from the news- 

 paper press, and seems to meet with the gi-eater favor from the 

 fact that it holds out inducements to ladies to participate in 

 the sports and schemes of their husbands. Here will be one 

 asylum, at least, where the enen^ated belles of New York can 

 spend a season, and in the sports of the field regain ten years 

 of youth as capital for future campaigns at Saratoga or Long 

 Branch. There is no reason why a lady should not learn to 

 cast a fly and ensnare the wily trout as skillfully as the most 

 expert male angler, and with a light rifle they would soon 

 learn to enjoy a wait upon a run-Avay for a final crack at the 

 spotted deer. No more sensible, healthful, or rational enjoy- 

 ment could be proposed than a month's out-door sport in a 

 locality so well stocked with game, and it is to be hoped that 

 such a pastime may find more favor in the future with people 

 who usually spend their summer vacation idly making a 

 tour of the watering-places and fashionable resorts, and from 

 which they generally return to town more weary and languid 

 than at the outset. 



The " Blooming Grove Park " is entitled to a prominent 

 place among the sporting resorts of America. 



