The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-05
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868.
Sum m er Jaunts.

In our climate, so insppropriately styled tenn
perate, it takes some experience and judgment
to learn how to live. After being frozen in
winter, and drowned in spring, we are sud
denly parched with blistering heat before we
have had even premonitory hint of warmth
to urge us to get Summer suit" June
boils us, July broils us, and August sets us
by to simmer, till at length, with the glorious
Autumn, comes golden days, when life is
delight and all nature luxuriates in fulness
of Joy.
To the overtaxed denizen of the city it be-
comes question of health and future useful
ness, where and how he can find shelter from
the heat and relaxation from labor. The sud
den transition to an almost tropical tempsra-
ture makes the pavement, like the furnace.
seven times heated, and body and brain both
crave safety in fight.
Most people live in such hurry, taking so
little thought for the morrow, that when the
moment of suffocation comes they fly to the
nearest popular resort as the place most
readily accessible. Those who have striven to
escape from their own tediousness all winter
need the excitement of the popular gathering
place in summer, and large numbers seek
there the gaiety and fashion denied to them
elsewhere. To such the shop at the springs
or the seaside offers an irresistible attraction,
but there is another lesser multitude, the
members of which are not afraid of solitude,
and to whom quiet is boon, who would most
willingly escape from the tumultuous crowd
and seek repose in communion with nature.
The revivifying powers of ocean are as i'm
measurable as its waves and there can be no
more potent life-giver than its breezes. In
wandering by the deer sea its music brsathes
poetry to the most prosaio, and the ever
varying monotony of the marching waves
carries refreshment to the over-wearied brain.
Along our shore are multitudes of quiet spots,
where the wanderer can gather refreshment,
physical, mental and spiritual, and unmo-
Tested by the throng, learn the wonders of
the deep, and these happy hooks of refuge can
be found at the expense of little inquiry and
forethought.
There is even a fashionable way OF being
adventurous, and prescribed method for
going a gypsying. But the lover of nature
need not seek her afar in the forests of Maine
or on the hills Of New Hampshire; she can be
found as wildly glorious nearer at home, and
our own forests have many wild and pic
turesque hooks unknown to tourists, who
offer themselves up as willing victims to the
mosquitoes of the Adirondacks.
Within the boundaries of Pennsylvania
there is so much wildress and beauty on lofty
mountain-top and In deep-hidden gorge by
icy spring heads and clear rivulets, that Bed
ford, Cresson, and the Water Gap are but
types of the wondrous variety of the glorious
Keystone State. The lovely shores of the Sus-
quehanna and Juniata, the wilder beauty of
the country traversed by the waters of the
Delaware, the Monongshela, and the Allegheny
offer an ample variety of landscape to the lover
of the picturesque. The hills rise in beauty
around Bethlehem, and in glory around Mauch
Chunk, while in the long range of mountain
counties there are deep defles and grand emi-
nences hardly known beyond the limits of the
districts they adorn. There are forests to be
explored, which are yet unknown except to
the woodsman, and caves whose existence is
as yet hardly more than conjecturs while
the lovely mountain brooklets are peopled
with multitudss of trout-and what skilled
tourist has better taste for the picturesque
than the trout?
The enforced leisure of summer, or few
glorious autumn days snatched as the best Of
all holidays, cannot be better bestowed than in
exploring these untraversed wildernesses, and
lovely sequestered hooks which lie beyond the
ordinary route Of travel, and have heretofore
escaped the tourists, who persist in the search
the unknown along the old systematzed
rack by which the fashionable traveller has
sought it for years.