Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-04
SUMMER TOURISTS.
SOME GRAINS OF COMFORT FOR THE
sTAY-AT-HoMEs.
The People Who Take summer Vacations
and Those Who Do Not-A
Iady's Views.
Correspondence of the suxpAY.uxoN. /

| Correspondence OF the SUNDAI-OSI0S.l
The fashion of going to the mountains OF
TO the seaside to spend the summer, or a
portion of it, has become so universal that
to some this summer fitting seems almost
necessity, and they migrate with the reg
ularity of the birds. But what of the great
army Of workers who stay at home-ths
man of business, the overworked wife and
mother and those who toll in the shops ?
The very ones who need rest and recreation
occasionally are not, as rule, the people
who go on summer vacations. While rest
and change is pleasant, and to be desired
at any and all seasons of the year, do these
human birds of assage always have the
best oft? If rest is sought it surely is not
to be found at the gay watering places, and
not always in the camping parry. / can
not imagine any rest or pleasure riding all
day in wagon piled as high as your head
with articles that you would require two
or three rooms for when at home, with
yourself and two or three children to fill in
the corners, and over hot, dusty roads, and
the California roads are fearfully dusty in
the summer time
At evening you stop, hot, dirty and tired.
No place TO take q bath or change your
soiled clothing. Supper is to be prepared
over a fire, which either scorches Your face
or fills your eyes with smoke. Everything
you touch is covered with that awful dust,
One OF the lords of creation has brought a
bucket of water, with which You are ex-
pected toscook supper, wash the dishes
and your own and children's faces.
After three or four days Of camp-life, the
wife and mother begins to think its beau
ties have been greatly exaggerated. She
has not found the rest she sought. While
the men have hunted and fshed, the
woman has had to cook, wash dishes, and
wash the children and their clothes, the
same as at home, with none OF the home
conveniences. And as she lies down at
night, tired and dusty, upon a mattress
spread on the ground, or in a wagon
cramped for room, does not longing come
over her for the tidy cottsge, with its cool,
clean kitchen, and the gas or gasoline
stove on which the meals can be prepared
without heating ones blood up to the boil
ing point? Plenty of water for q daily
bath; and even if the temperature of the
water is $50, that is Just right for bathing
Ia the afternoon don a light, clean wrap
per, remain in cool room with some light
work or book until evening, which nearly
always brings fresh breezes nom the sea.
After light tea is it not delightful to sit
on the verauda or lawn, inhale the fresh
air and the fragrance of the flowers, or take
ride, or, perhaps, 1t is Just g walk to the
PARK, and listen to the beautiful music?
And if, upon your return 10 your rooms,
they are . trihe warm, they are clean, and
haven't you a comfortable bed to sleep IN
And then you do not have to be reused out
of your beauty sleep at four or five o'clock
10 the morning for another tiresome, dusty
ride.
think the pleasures of camp life are
mythical to great extent, while few
weeks among the grand old mountains.
''rock-ribbed and ancient as the SUM- if
we were only possessed of the magic car
pet, that we might be set down at the de-
sired spot without the trouble of going or
few days at the ocean side, taking in
health and strength at every breath, and
every dip into the briny wave, is all pleas
ant enough at any season of the year. But
how many hundreds-I might say thou.
sands-there are who never get away
from shop or office, or the cares
of housekeeping, for a summer or
any other vocation. And they
live just as long, are Just as well, and just
as happy as those who must rush off some
where every season, as much because it is
fashionable as anything else. If could
hear it, imagine my ears would Jingle
with the cry, The grapes are sour"
But there are many worse things than
having to remain at home during the sum-
mer. And provided the working people
are not deprived of their privilege of enjoy.
ing as they please their one holiday in
seven, whether it is attending ball game
Sunday afternoon, or an open air concert in
the evening, think they will be well and
happy at home, which is the best place
after all. E.P.D.
Lake House, August 1st.