St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-20
Where To Go.

Just at this time when so many are
thinking of going away to spend a few
days or weeks, and wondering where
they can spend their time to the best
advantage, few suggestions by us will,
possibly, 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 anywhere else. But,
to us, a far more important cOnsideIa-
tion is, where do the nature of our oc-
cupation and the physical needs of our
system requires that we go. We lose
great deal of benefit, physical and men
tai, 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 go, so much as what
are our physical and mental wants, and
where they will be most fully satisfied
what scenery and air will best recruit
our weakened energies and exhausted
frames. If we have been shut up in
close rooms and heated apartments the
year round, then we need-Our systems
need the fresh air, the warm sunlight,
the free range of green fields, and the
ever-varying scenery of the hills or the
sea shore. If we have been in 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 bus
tie and excitement at home. We ought
by going away to escape this. And
where can we do this better than among
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mountains, or away among the fields of
the country? Still another considera-
tion by no means unimpOrtant is, where
do we live. Is it by the sea shore or
away back in the inland A proper
consideration of this fact will also as
sist us in making a 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,
as general thing, it will do US more
good in every way to make our ar
rangements to come to the seaside. On
the other hand, if we live within sight
of old ocean or where we sniff the sea
air throughout the year, unquestiona-
bly, the place for us to 90 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 home-that is,
if we live at the sea-side, in going to
the sea-side-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 a change that we are
after-a change in everything. For
while we go away Ostensibly for rest,
unless we have change, complete, radi-
cal, 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 a change. Hourly
comes the feeling and the thought, "Tm
sick and tired of everything. o, if
could get away, somewhere, anywhere
but here"
In regard to the expense, it is much
cheaper to 90 to the country or the
mountains. 1t is not necessary to stop
at expensive and fashionable hotels.
There are always more or less places in
the country where one can go or send
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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 place for you. Or, if
you have no ffiend, go to some hotel
it is not necessary that it be the largest
or most expensive in the place-and
engage rooms for day or so. There
are many villages, with ever-changine
scenery around them, in western Maine
in New Hampshire and Vermont, where
board at the best hotels is but dollar
day. Then go to any first-class gro
cery store in the place, and you can
readily find out if there are any good
boarding places in that vicinity, and
make m; your arrangements accordingly.
The same method can be adopted at The