Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-25
Where To Go.

Just at this time when so many are
thinking of going away to spend few
days or weeks, and wondering where they
can spend their time to the best advant-
age, II few suggestions by us will, possi-
bly,, not be amiss. Two things are first to
be considered, namely, where one wishes
TO go, and whether he can afford to go
where he wishes. If we can afford to go
where we wish, then doubtless we shall
get more good by going there than any
where else. B t, to us, a far more import
ant consideration is, where do the nature
of our occupation and the physical needs
of our system requires that we go? We
lose II great deal of benefit, physical and
mental, and so of enjoyment, in our vaca-
tions or seasons of rest, because we do not
first sit down and find out, not where we
wish to 90, SO much as what our physical
and mental wants, and where they will be
most fully satistied-what scenery and air
will best recruit our weakened energies
and exhausted frames. If we have been
shut up in close rooms and heated apart
mcnts the year round, then we need our
systems need-the fresh air, the warm
sunlight, the free range of green fields,
and the cver-varying scenes of the hills or
the sea shore. If we have been in a whirl,
heated and worried with excitement, then
plainly the fashionable watering place or
seaside resort is not the place for us. We
need quiet. We have hustle and excite
ment at home. We ought by going away
to escape this. And where can we do this
better than among the shaded hooks and
dells of the mountains, or away among
the fields of the country? Still another
consideration by no means unimportant is,
where do we live. Is it by the sea shore or
away back in the inland? A proper con-
sideration of this fact will also assist us in
making judicious choice of place and
scenery. If we are away back in the
country-if we see nothing but fields and
woods and hills daily, then, Us n general
thing, it will do us more good in every
way TO make our arrangements to come
to the sea side. On the other hand, if we
live within sight of old ocean or where
we sniff the sea air throughout the year,
unquestionably the place for us to go
is inland, among the hills and mountains.
Our reason for this is that we need change,
and in going to the same scenes with
which we are familiar at homc-that is. if
we live at the sea side, in going to the
sea sidc-we get very little, if any,
change in going to the mountains, if we
have lived among them, we see very little
except what we saw or could see at home.
1t is change that we are aftcr-;t change
in everything For while we 60 away
ostensibIy for rest, unless VIC have a
change, complete, radical, we get no rest.
If this were not so, then we might Just as
well stay at home and save our money
and trouble. The man or woman who
sees the same faces and walks the same
streets, sees the same sights, and looks
around on the same apartments every
day, sighs for, and ought to have Il change,
Hourly comes the feeling and the thought,
" I'm sick and tired Of everything. ., if
could get away, somewhere, anywhere
but here"
In regard to the expense, it is much
cheaper to 90 to the country or the noun
tans. 1t is not necessary to stop at ex-
pensive and fashionable hotels There are
always more or less places in the country
where one can 90 or send his family
where the occupants will accommodate
you cheerfully, and are even glad TO have
respectable strangers come, with board at
four, five, and at the most, six dollars per
week. If you do not know of such places,
write to friend, tell him what you want,
and let him engage Il place for you. Or,
if you have no friend, 60 to some hotel
it is not necessary that it be the largest OF
most expensive in the place-and engage
rooms for day or so. There arc many
villages, in western Maine, in New llamp'
shire and Vermont, where board ut the
best hotels is but dollar day. Then &C
to any lirst-clasS grocery store in the
place, and you can readily find out if there
are any good boarding places in that vi
cinity, and make your arrangements ac-
cordingly. The same method can be
adopted ut the sea side, but it is not Sc
easy to obtain good boarding places there