Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-07-07
Summer Trips.

During the past few years what are
termed fashionable summer resorts,
have been less patronized by the more
substantial classes. The latter have
given way before shoddy and show, and
Some ofour watering places have latterly
gathered about them such Objectionable
elements as to repel individuals of culti-
yation and quiet tastes. What with race
courses, gambling bungalows, and gilded
palaces of vice, they have come to al
most eclipse Baden Baden in rottenness
and corruption, attracting some of the
most indifferent material from our cit
les. Sea air and sea bathing are bracing
and beneficial to many constitutions,
but no physical benefits could compen-
safe for the moral contamination which
one is likely to undergo at such places.
Furthermore, there can be but little
satisfaction in Willing away the summer
months in idleness or a round of ex-
hausting gayeties, at one of these resorts,
and returning home more dead than
alive perhaps. We are, therefore, glad
to witness the increasing tendency
among city dwellers to spend their va
cations in the rural districts, seeking
enjoyment among natural beauties
rather than in unnatural, highly-sea-
soned excitements. 1t is this kind of
reaction which refreshes mind and body
and sends them back recuperated and
rejuvenated to the busy haunts OF men.
Farm houses or country inns can be
found located in healthy localities and
surrounded by many natural attractions,
where one can secure both a quiet re-
treat and the change in air and diet
which bring tone to the system. After
rambling about the fields during the day
or returning from fishing or cunning
excursion, the wholesome farmers bread
and new sweet milk will be more keenly
relished than the most daintaily pre-
pared dishes at Saratoga or Long
Branch. a'
Those who derive no enjoyment from
communion with nature, who can find
no company in books, might soon tire
of such seclnsion. But the cultivated
mind ever fingers upon and recalls with
pleasure such pastoral, quiet scenes,
where nature speaks and delights
through a thousand forms. When,"
WrOU0 GOuSS0dt, Ollo bIN0lIU oSSlIS
after that gentle and happy life, which
fills me yet, for which | was born, arises
to inAame my imagination, It's ever in
the Vaud country close by the lake,
mid those charming plains, that fancy
dwells. must absolutely have an Or
chard on the banks of this and no other
lake, true friend, an amiable wife, a
cow, and small boat" Up and down
the world roamed this unhappy man
during his days, but he never expert
enced, he tells US, any real enjoyment
except when temporarily sojourning
among the scenes he has described.
Chateaubriand, Wordsworth and Thor.
eau have grown equally enthusiastic
over their rural homes. The Adiron-
dacks and the White Mountains afford
most desirable retreats for those wishing
strong and bracing air. There is no
more invigorating atmosphere to be
found in the world than one breaths in
or on the outskirts of the Adirondack
Mountains. Coming from the crowded
haunts of the city, person feels like
new being in short time and returns
with heavy reinforcement of animal
life and spirits. The same is true to a
greater or less extent of the White and
other mountains which are within easy
access of city dwellers. A family can
live for month at many points of rural
interest for less sum than is charged
per week at the watering places proper.
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