Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-07
THE SUMMER RESORT BUSINESS.
The True Inwardness Explained by ons Who
 Has Travelled
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 Every summer brings it's exodus, and
 at present every day sees the victims
 with their trunks, gripsacks and linen
 dusters, crOwdIng the trains for all th-
 rectiOns Each resort, whether seaside,
 mountain, country town or forest, has
 it's special vOtaries. The man who has
 a pleasant city home, with all the modem
 cOnveniences, not and cold baths, mes
 quito bars, a comfortable library and
 smOkiug-rOOm, luxurious beds, the best
 food the market affords. and excellent
 opportunities for taking healthful exer-
 cises without trouble, betakes himself,
 perhaps, to the woods of Maine or New
 York. He sleeps, or tries to sleep, on a
 rough bed of hemlock boughs, crawled
 over Oy bugs and snakes, bitten by flies
 and mosquitoes, against whose powers Of
 penetration a rubber blanket Is of no account. He lives on ham and bacon cooked by hands he prefers not to look
 at, breaks his teeth on Indgestble bis
 cult, works harder than any day labOrer at home m pulling or carrying boat,
 now and then catches a trout or bull
 head, and iE general leads the life of an unregenerated savage, without the sav- ages taste or capacity of enjoying 1t, and tries to convince himself that he Is hay ! ing an immense amount of solid pleas ure.
 Or he hieS him to a mountain and takes rooms at a hotel; Is oppressed by heat at day and by cold at night; througn | the thin partition of his room listens t1 the cough of the cOnsumptive or the ] sneeze of the hay feverish; foolishly J climbs mountain peak, thereby causing palpitatiOn of the heart, and finds what view there may be Obstructed by per petual fog.
 Or perhaps he wanders by the seaside: | fills his shoes with sand and his lungs with pure salt water while bathing. l comes out sticky with salt and longing
 for his own bath tub; pays four prices, besides fleeing the waiter, for fish and meat brought from the city market: has his nerves racked by brass band, or. when he fancies he may sleep, Is agon- | ized by the party on the piazza tOrturing | the night air with the strains of the
 |" Sweet By and By and Al on Ac- count of Eliza
 ! Or he goes to the quiet home in the country town; plays crOquet, sleeps in a | feather bed, interviews mosquitoes and
 other insects, gets to sleep after midnight and is reused before daylight by the  | barnyard chorus; Is permitted to make
 his toilet with a teacupful of hard water; spoils his digestive apparatus with unac- customed food, and at last returns to
 his city home needing a months doctor | ing before he resumes his normal con- | ditiOn and Is ready for work
 | It k well that -he great majority of those who constitute the "stay at [ homes" or "can't get aways are able
 to get some such glimpse of the experi- ence of those who persist in seeking ! pleasure at a distance. It has a tendency | to make them take a more philosophical view of life, and tC understand that for | those who have the mind tO make the | best of the inevitable there are enjoy meuts and comforts at home which must
 be left behind by those who go pleasure ! seeking elsewhere.