New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-30
OFT or DOORS ~ JENE.

I'm spite of the cool weather the towns began
10 empty themselves into the country during
this June with unusual prOmpttude. One rea-
son Of his is that with every year an out
door life in Summer for children is looked
upon by our people more as necessity and
less as a luxury. Another is the large increase
in cheap, accessible resorts, and third Is the
greatly reduced rates of boarding this season
IN hotels, farm-h0uses, etc. Ten years ago 1t
was ouly the family of the wealthy man OF
leisure whose house was closed in June now
adays, the clerk or the poor clergyman finds it
almost as cheap to discharge his maid-of-all-
work and engage boarding Tor wife and chill
dren in a Jersey farmhouse, or In a cottage
in one of the Summer seaside towns as to
keep the house open through the hot season
in the city.
Coney Island affords this year n means
of escape to large numbers who must re-
main within a short distance Of Broadway
or the Bowery. The endless succession OF Sea
Views, and Groves, and Parks which have
sprung up like mushrooms along the ocean
beach from Sandy Hook 70 Cape May, under
the patronage of different denominations, are
another outlet The farming counties adjoin-
ing New-York and Philadelphia have gradually
been turned into enormous boardng-houses,
aud reap as golden harvest from their Sum
''mer visitors" as from their fields. The
change proves how rapidly in this country a
supply springs up to equal demand. While
it was only the fashion to leave town in
Summer, and families of small means went
simply to follow the fashion the only accom-
modations were costly and snowy hotels, aud
g,s-lic I'm al
classes CO. from reasons founded in the actual re-
ouirements of both brain aud body, the same
facilities are offered for living cheapy and
comfortably out of town as in it. In the course
of few years we shall all begin to sip this an
nual draught of Nature in a more lesurey
epicurcan fashion. We understand the pleas
IRE there is in discovering unknown sOlitudes
or new fields of adventure. But our one idea
now is to get out of town, and to keep with
the crowd in the country. When we are
more cultured, perhaps we shall relish our
own society better, and once year, at least,
find it healthful to be alone face TO face with
Nature to commune with our own hearts
and be still. 1t Is something however that we
have learned to appreciate fresh air. The
uses of solitude will dawn on rs by and by.
But TIE TRIBUNE has a word TO say for the
Young folks who have just been pulled through
those brain-dredging examinations in school
and college. What are you going to do with
them for the next three months Remember
that they are young and that they have been
held down tightly for a year. They must
have room for uproar, for outlet of the hot
fever in them. Let them have it now, and
plenty of it. Don't shut them up in ball
| ~,
rooms in the fresh dewy morning, or set them
to pacing pOrches on parade in tight boots
and fashionable clothes. You will find your
boy of sixteen elleryescing at the brandy
cocktail and your little girl at hot-paced lrta-
ton. Effe'vesce they viii, somehow or some
where. Give them, now in June, boats, guns,
rods, and old clothes. Take them ont to the
real hills and waters, not to millinery lawns
and lakes white with town dust. There is a
certain education in the woods and on q farm
which if a man does not gain in youth, gap
is left in his whole life. Give the lads, too. a
little personal freedom of action. Let half a
Dozen or better STILL only two. start out on a
pedestrian or horseback tour, or go out camp
ing this Summer. The cost is small. No great
harm can happen to them They will fad
health. endurance and room for legs, arms
and for all the noise that is in them. The
storms and wettings and adventures-if they
have anyhow long they viii glonfy their
| lyes These are the bits of their long his
tories to which old boys with gray hair and
dmmed eyes go back to chucke over when
| they come together.
We are glad to hear of many horseback and
canoe expeditions among our college lads this
vacation, following at last the example of
| German students Nothing could be wiser.
even from an educational point Of view. Our
boys when they leave college know very little,
| as a rule, of their own country or of human
nature. such journeys as these will teach