The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-28
AUNT TRUDY's LETTER.
Writes of s4out Doors" and Summer
Vacations.
Button Rose Cottage, July %, 1900

BUTTON Rose cottage, july lSoo%
Dear State Journal:
We are all a gettin' so fond OF out
doors these days. sometimes think we
are evolving back ards, in some things,
tord the abrignaI days. We surely are
z l1vn' more an more outdoors every
yere, an its gettin' stylish every yere
to take vacashens in the rough wild
places Of the erth. too Government
should see to savin' hole lot of them
skraggly wild places now, while 1t kin,
fur the nerVUS. Overwcrked city folks TO
rest in from the whirlpool Of life But
there are more n more people an sub
dUarS Of the erth a comm, an If the
gDXErnmAnt dom take steps it'll be too
Iare, an the wauI country park in the
Rockies will be bot up an fensed on
an made Gifted with works OF art, an
IabIed. an a charge at ech gate to see
the sites-jes like old Jerusalem is today,
and none of the reel things LEFT
We are gettin' cOmmon-welther every
yere an I think the best common
We15h would be to hev the Rocky noun
tens decided to be public restin' places
100 yerS- The whole country has it's
common WeIth of city thiug=state
houses libraries streets an bridges an
parks. &c
These the country people seek, on the
holly days. but the city people want the
material things on their holidays
An by-n-by when the rale-rOdes are
run by government. It'll give every citi-
zen his turn fur VacaShun- an tn
poor LabEer who tolls in dark dingy
hot shops yere in an out an never
darst think of any days off but Sundays
for 20 years-he viii go them An 50
will the poor women who cook in stIfed,
smelly hotel kitchens. Sundays an all
days. an never kin stop unless they are
too sick to enjoy anythIng-they VIII go
TO the wild Rockies. an sit on the
ground, an climb. an breeth fresh air
two weekst-An' by-u-by when COVER
ment runs ships-au regulates the price
Of journeys hy-there's the new
Sometimes I think it's the way we
five causes tramps- The boys an men
who start out in life to make Their
own way Is put up in such
ruues-they cant stan it. There's
something in 4 mans mater. if he is
man. H@ses up agi1 foul air an dirt.
an he listens to the vote, an II tells
him the fields an hills will Civ him
a. clean bed, any way, an sound. sweet
sleep, an so he makes the habit of
outdoor life before he thinks.
We are a begiclfn TO teen our boys
an girls to appreshiate two thing@na-
ture ar helth- We usto tech them
to approximate creedS- an manners
nest Were fndfn' cut Gcd is best
werSnipesf IN nature an helth- now
An were learner that the food nearest
20 nature Is the ki1d isf food to eat
TIE very things We spend the most
time an money an strength to pre-
pare are the ones that Go US the most
harm on our tables I tell you but 1
would like TO i've 80 more yeres to see
what it all comes t0t-these changes.
1 mean But I intend TO see it just
the same, for We who try TO help SOW
the seed must be first partaker Of
the froots.n ses scripter-
IT'S often asked What are the girls
coming to anyway. Law sakes- when
Z WIS girl girls would no more touch
firecrackers than they would eat pizenI
Now the girls are jes as crazy fer
crackers as the boys Then a girl was
tot to be deIicnt- an that it was coarse
to be healthy an run an play Now
the girl on whom every body smiles is
the rosy romp, with lots Of room for