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t I I j, . - - i t -v . it.- I --I mnunii i i mi niinfii -i iw-n-if--mir - ini...n ,- ... - ,..... .. ir ,ri k ' -..... - ... ,i ,.,.... . ; . . ,, PORTLAND, : OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1908 Tip! yaw fVl A If V1BE i - ' "f-i America's Gla in ', "v .. , , . V i. II x ' ' - . TV'S -- -X'.t rTwf If 4- , . . I Wny , I J; - , v , if HEY spoke of it in k, J-l! hff V;v-ii 'Ifl ' iv.J . IT A, old days as the K . M &Z7 W3l H H I--';-. iUh' tetM. &&; S'Ar i m- IB Uji j. :WiZA', ." 41., -, t i 1 MtL -- '" ..- :f V ihsj hava had their summer play. , Where they shall go for the summer recrea fcioa depends, of course, upon the' time at their disposal and the surplus in their bank accounts. It may be a month at Bar Harbor or a day at Coney - Island, a week at Atlantic City or a aionth, in the Dolls pf Wisconsin. But wherever they go they will have a good time. The Good Time at the resort of resorters has become one of the Big Businesses. Millions of dollars are expended in amusements, whether they are "Trip to the Moon" places, visited by 150,000 persons a day at a seaside .resort, or communities of. bungalows in the West. Possibly, the two favorite summer play- HEY spoke of it in the old days as the call of Pan. They felt it tugging at their heart strings when summer drew near; they, felt it stirring in theHr blood as the sap quickened tfte flowers and trees, and , they obeyed the ir resistible yearning of their sfiuls for the green forests and open fields; they experi enced the wonderful, exultant thrills of a joyous 'summering when the world is glad and wants to play! In those days emperors hied themselves to their villas by Lake Como or the Aegean sea, and summer resorters no doubt thronged Capri and Cyprus. Today we do the same thtng, practically, taking our he gira, at the call of the goat-footed god, to Bar Harbor, Atlantic City, the Adiron dacks, the farms of the middle West, the woods of Canada and Maine, the Dells of Wisconsin, to seaside and lakeside and woods. Alas! however, in our day we look in vain for nymphs; Silenus no longer peers from behind green boughs, and Bacchus no more leads his hilarious train through the forest green. But Pan calls just the same at least the fever of the summer gets in our veins; and we are drawn to one of the na tion's playgrounds. And All th tlnglnc of th streamlet m they wJittper to the stones. Ail the qulTr a,D& the tremor of the thousand undertones In the fuerue of forest rapture I can hear the-n every ds y. Calllnsr. caillss la the city from thourt away. ' ! I " " " iiS.4 tsN kikrriiriHMsWiOT -Alh. '.-WJU' f K -'f YOU see a man coming down itreet some morning, whose feet lag, who pr?pirea freely, who greets his friend with a grunt and looks to discontented that 'ou feci sorfy for him ; you go to his office, hn ets you knew be doesn't care whether school keeps or aot ; hit conduct is reprehensible, to sty the least . If yon know human nature, you will realize that that man simply is suffering from summer playitisv It is' the prcT&leat disease) titer Jus and lasts until the cool breezes of October, lie may not know it, but the sea or the forest is calling from' the distance. He may blame the malady on many things even the un offending lilliput of an office boy. Tell him to take a Tscation. Or you mar observe undefinable. symptoms in your wife, daughter or stenographer. She walks in lackadaisical way, her. manner is drooping; she) talks in such a languishing man ner, and perhap complains that she is very tired. . ........ - . ITovshe isn't sick. Her digestion is all right There are so headache. What is the matter I acationitis. She wants to playl Some time in June, usually, the peculiar malady manifests itself among the American people. It gets in their blood and fills them with languor; it hinders their work; sometimes it makes them disagreeable. The first symptoms appear when the tall office buildings begin to glow with heat, when the wind becomes languid and almost too lazy to stir, and the flies buzz at the" windows. And a strange reaction begins. The intense l strenuosityjpf the winter and early spring is re placed by a "hang-tomorrow" attitude; the hus tling, bustling energy of the business season changes almost to a "go-as-you-please" indiffer ence. In the city, highUp in the skyscrapers and down in eleetjCrlighnd basements, people hear tbo far-away call their blood thrills with the keen yearning for forest nooks, for the glorious frecxlom of riding on an oc?in-bounding billow or . to revel in a bathing suit, for pulling a wriggling trout out of a stream, or loafing in a cabin in the still forests. Pan calls and lo! the summer vacation is on. America, after its head-ovej-heels, breath less, panting, mad gallop of business activity, takes its rest. It pauses for a breathing space for two weeks, for two months, maybe, but whether - the rest be extensive or brief, it is necessary. And the business man doesn't get over his gToocn; not the bookkeeper over hi sulks, nor the stenographer over her tantrums, nor. the wife and daughter over their uneasineav until ill -T't- "iifg li grounds of the wealthy arc Newport the 'capi tal of summer folly and the Adirondacks, the cool and gracious forest retreats of quiet rest. Life at Newport is ss exacting in its wsy as a social season in New York; indeed, no social season ever required such a freazied gallop as that at the seaside resort of the elect. In the Adirondacks, however, where the auSftfre trees disdain mere mortals and buck and doesS wander lazily along streams filled with trout, there one may enjoy all the luxuries of modern life and all the. solemn silence and rest fulness of the untrsveled wiliL. 2Lonatains, form . a playground which up peals to all. For invalids or persons suffering, from too close application to work in the city, they are the greatest sanitarium every designed. For the artist there are innumerable scenes of surpassing beauty. For the sportsman there isi game in abundance, and for the mere pleasure seeker playgrounds whero he may engage in all sorts of amusements. In palatial bungalows or tents during the summer one will find the vacationists inhabiting all parts of the vast mountain region of the Adirondacks. About Eaquette lake one finds many resorters ; in. the Saranac region, are many clusters of camps and big hotels. About the upper and lower Sarauac lakes are bits of scenery said to be unsurpassed even in tha Alps. One can take voyage on the waters leading away to Tupper lake or Eaquette lake and Ful ton) chain in the south, or to Lake Champlain in the north. This trip of 126 miles over the Saranac river takes three days. Or, if one likes mountain climbing, he can climb, if ho is in- . defatigable, higher than Jack ever did on the . mythical beanstalk. ; About the lakes in the St. . Regis chain thousands of people live in tents and cottages ' during the entire summer. From between tha trees that embower the cottage or tent by tha. lake, in this region, one can see St. Regis mountain looming 3000 feet in the distance. e Within the borders of Essex county are included. the highest mountains in the state Mount, "; Marcey, of an altitude of 5344 feet ; "Mount' Mof ' Intyre, 5201 feet, and Mount Whitef ace, which overlooks Lake Placid, 5000 feet. '-:-.r THOUSANDS IN THE MOUNTAINS i And you would be surprised to learn how, many thousands of persons find their chief sum- mer pleasure in struggling up to the rugged summits of these mountains to witness a sunset T At the hotels in popular mountains such -as these one enjoys all the conveniences of city . . hostelries; there is music during the-meals and , dancing in the evenings; there are well laid out; ' golf links and tennis eourts, and stage parties ' are conducted through the mountains. Million-, aires favor such places as their summer play-. . ground. f ' It is a far cry from tha lofty 'Adirondack-' 4o Atlantic City. High up in those regions of balsam and firs human frivolity in vain endear' ors to disturb the eternal rest, and. despite the hilarity at mountain hotels, a 6pirit of repose prevails. But at Atlantic City! It is the citr ; of pleasure, unalloyed, unassumed, unrestrained.' ' This city at the sea throbs with the real joy of -, life. . . ' , People begin going to Atlantic early , in -May; some remain during the entire summer; many for a week or two, and the majority; prob ably, for a few days. But from tha beginning of summer until late in September, night ana day, a gay and brilliant throng moves along tha LcaHwalk. . la the morning they sally into tha ocean, thousands at a time, and over the tumult of tha . breakers continuously rise the cries of people at play. They rejoice, in the waters and dabble in the sand, young and old. People of all na tions throng the boardwalk; they 11 tha psvil- ions and katirty rinks. - - - . . . . . The spirit of Atlantic was epitomized soma time sgo, when a Hindu, weaf ing a yellow tur ban and a beflowered tunic, walked serenely along in interested conversation with a little ftt Eskimo spd his chunky wife ! No other resort can surpssu in grsnieur some of the bostelrirs at Atlantic;' icie-l. sev eral of them rank with the finest hotels ia the ' world. Atlantic City ia the reort of the rkh ' and poor, the nsijliorsire and the hired" rr.sn th teecca, ind L cf every one rhv i a rip-roaring. good time- - . r. . tcoxrixczo CM ISSIX-U TAZZ
