Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-20
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The good rustic danes of a former gen
Grafton used to calculate on q regular
iauht or iourney,7 In some part of every
Summer---either after hoeing or before
having, or after having and before harvest
inS-theif lords business, arrangements
dOvetaIling' snugly into the plan, when
alstay of afew days at the "salt water" or
an excursion among community of
cousins and cOngeners, or an easy jog at
random, across the country in the family
conveyance, sufficed to recover the spirits
and energies of the, whole circle for the
steady service Of another year. The danes
and theirmofe dashing daughters of to-day
would hardly be satisfied with the primi-
tivelcustomso ndsimple conditions of the
OIdtime nor ought it In reason to be ex-
pected, In an age which has supplanted the
numbering stage-coach with the spinning
raiiroad car, made the very air pathway
of messages turned what were once
tlIUaeht luxuries into common necessities,
aud REDUCED the dreams Of other days into
positive realities. d,,5s d.. lo .a....
Everybody takes, or at least plans, his
Summer trip. With some it is the tour of
Europe, with perhaps a fofay into Egypt
and across the Holy Land. With Others it
ia q campaign among the mountains, or an
excursion across the great lakes and around
the heed.watefs of the Mississippi. Others
still prefer to idle away the long hours on
seaside piazzas, In boats floating or shore,
aAd among the rocky hiding places Of our
bold New England coast. The very eonti-
nent's bounds do not stretch farther than the
desires of few of the harder or more am
bilious sort, and Halliday, the Indians,
OF San Francisco form the staple of their
thought and talk for at least whole year
afterward. It would be a presumption to
suggest 70 any one the direction In which
he should go I; let it be assumed that he
must needs start, and then let ghiHS follow
the bent, or even the vagaries, of his own
inCIination. The lack Of time, or means, or
possibly both, will supply all the limita-
tions. that should properly belong to the
subject. For the rest it would prove but
meagre, recreation or rest If he could not
struggle pretty much where the changing
whim took him. Temperament guides |
greatly in, these matters, too :. and what
nOnrishes one will poison anOtheF. Tenn
permanent, Is that ymysteriouslys coltFived |
Something with which we had better med |
die as little as possible, In merely minor
matters like these. i1sqofq 1r luia nF t1 ss
The results of the war have really OPEN
ed q new and magnificent field to home
tourists, I'm which are set notable land
marks like Lookout Mountains, the beauti-
full VaIleV of the Shenandoah, and many
another locality which the costly struggle
for triumphingr cause has grendered his
tOrically sacred but some little margin of
time will be needed in which to repair, and
malse complete again the means OF public
Communication in that direction, The !
travelling public, however, growing eager !
as It grows numerically, viii be impatient
to visit those places where great national
iss6es were tried, and where they finally
won by the valor Of a loyaian determined
people. The mingliDg of tourists from
both sections Of the country at those places
may happily wear off the asperities of the
past, and perhaps start into vigorous
growth q sentiment of genuine kindness
and fraternity.
II only Tor a sail among the greer, islands,
in Lake. Erie, some sort Of q sumner trip |
ought, If possible, to-be made by every one. |
We need to get out of the narrow rat of |
our daily habits. It is good to be banged |
aud bruised with travel If only to discover
what relish home has for rs. Extortion-
ate hackpen, behind Time porteFsy execra-
bic meals at indictabler charges hot attcs
with a scantsupply of air and water, the
dust and noise and eindeFs of the
cars, Inay, .Hh0mesickness ITSELF may be
II
erate as Alternatives on systems which !
the sameness Of e0mfDltablel living has
muddled into state of inactivity and
sleepy inattehtion. When one gets well
home again alter hsoexperfmeht taE sum-
mering aud simmering, he, realizes how
profitable It has been for him to be able to
say with Sir Walter Scott could s0me-
times cry myself at the exchanges / have
made of the domestic comforts which Gus
tom had rendered neeeSsarieS for the for
eigA Substitutes which caprice and love of
changer bad rendered 1ashIonable." Near
by are the same old mountains, where the
sunrise comes straight to us from heaven.
Ttise clear and cool Northern lakes brfm for
us as they have for years. The interior is
dotted with farm houses where one can
haye Isweet berries and new milk TIL he L
tires Of them. And all the way from New, i
port to Mt, Desert-a stretch of bold and |,
beaatifal coast which the Continent cannot
matchrisy aehaiR-et seaside hotels for such,
as, lIke che returning Greeks, are willing To-
weep for a sight Of tire wgleqma sea, on
whose deep. and cool gpiazzas- the Yine0f
the sAlt breez g may se drunk sll dag lopg &.
and the thoughts may run upobstrnctedly
on a tEae klesg door to the fafth6St eitIes6f
the habitable globe. -.--
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