New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-16
SUMMER RAsIBLEs.

waving fields and vocal groves-Oi moonlight rsmbles
and a1ter-duncr siestas-of fishing in Long Lake AMI
boating of Mackinac or Nahant II is the season Of
out door enjoyment; aud he is unfortunate or unvse
WHO is tied down to business and city life from June TO
September month in the country may add nothing
to bis worldly wealth but few can fail to return to their
desks or their shops, vser healthier stronger, more
energetic from much briefer excursion
Every man should travel if only thai he may thence.
forth appreciate keeny the thousand precious bat
too often uDpri,ed because unpOted privileges enjoy
ments and sancttss Of Home. Though Travel were
in itself as empty, wesrsome and beset wiGh dscDm
forts q. its mo,t ingenious rsducer Las represented it,
itwoud still be oun Of happiness the store Of deas,
recoe ctions scenes and incidents. which If sccumu-
lates for future The most ignorant, sh ilos naoe
iop who surs himself in Broadway would hardly return
from Nae gdechts the Falls Of ST. Anthony as sly
AZ when be set the journey, while 20 thousands
the opportunities afforded the companions suggested the
reflections excited, by TRIP across The n'uent would
be quite as instructive ADD profitable year IL tue
best University.
We Americans travel more than any other people,
but We do not travel hall enough Macy even Of the
wealthy shuu Ourne, though 1t were On ice-oath,
while thrifty. Flooding digeDt artisans think they eau
no afford 10 Gke their families TO some economic VA
teiipg place to spend week with their cousins
IN the country. Herein they mistake erevOusly so
does even the day-lsboreT who habi'usy Poisons him.
self win three glasses OF i,quor per day AID
dozen cgas per week and then i.ncies he is unable 20
take his children even where they may bafhe IN the
pure pillows of Ocean. All Of us who have work sni
mems wages for IT, might families ~ all need
ful and heahful rscreations if We did waste
means Ou indulge OF absurd pernIccus char
sc,er-on deba,ng sensual sPpettes or extrayaganee
in dress or decorations Let live sobey. clearly ani
sensbly. and the poorest mechanic WHO has steady EN-
pigment may give his family week in the country if
he will.
And though the number OF Summer HANDLERS should
be doubled annually, cannot outrun the provision for
their accommodation and comfort. Saratoga aud New
port will Of course be crowded through the by
tie eddy throng whose Elysum consists in dancing and
drinking and displaying their fine clothes. as well as by
q grsyer, wiser. nober company, who find pensiSe
pleasure in revising the OF their by gone Oes
Ind noting the petition Of those foes by the genera
tun of pleasure seekers wbchhas inherited youth
but trip to the country longer implies 4 .cjoarn
emory the jewellers fashionable wa,ering-place.
Cape Msy. Shrewsbury, Rocksway, New London, Sson-
ingtOn and Aahan present their several attractions 70
the lovers Of scabathng while scores Of intermediate
villages or smaller bamets-sOnie consisting only If
hotel and few surrounding farmers dwellings where
families are boarded at moderate rates-are preferred
even TO these by thousands who seek secusOn rather
than society and find enjoyment in quiet days AMI home!
fare rather than in balls parties aud game suppers 80
of our citizens who journey inland the great ma ory
barely look at Saratoga if they visit it al all, and sit
down for rest and recreation al Sharon Lake George
Trenton Falls Niagara, or, more commonly, 10 some
quiet rural valley the brow Of some comm lndlng
eniDence whereof the very n.uie is uRsnoEn TO she
deyotses Of Fashion. AL through s -ate minsra
spring. Of approved quality-Richhed ia OIsego, Avoa
IN Livingston Clifton IN Ontario Chitenango in Madison
ard scores that We never visited have forg ,gen-
have their hotels their annual yisiters from the City
and their larger circle OF guests from the surrounding
villages who gather for few days social Intercourse
where Health waits on Enjoyment and Pleasure on EI-
ercise Ard these will increase In number and a,trac
tons as the demand for them becomes universal
But We had intended TO speak less of places Of sun.
sr soourn than Of routes Of travel Niagara is point
hard TO miss IN weeks journey but Niagara is now
only fair days ride from this City, while Lake So
perior more accessible than the Great Cataract was
thirty years ago year two hence favorite route
will be from this City via Niagara, Buffalo and Detroit.
or Dunkrk Cleveland and Toledo, 10 Chicago and Gale
Ia thence up by ST. Paul to the Falls Of ST. Anthony and
SO across to Lake Superior, and home BY the Copper
Mines, Saul Ste. Marie Msekinac and the Lakes
to Toronto, Ogdensburgh, Mostreal and Lake Cham
plain As yet, however, Lake Michigan At Chicago is
not quite united by rail to the Father Of Waters;
while the route from the Upper Mississippi to Superior
is noe to be commended to psasureseeiers who
are at all fastidious as to food and lodging, sup
p0sisg them wiling to travel a00t and swing heavy