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who do not camp In the woods' i,t pua ""o
would get out Of the world OF me clties' ,
pleasure ground. too. If the visitor Is inollneo
that way-Kat ahdin, with its rock-strewn
top in the clouds, 5000 feet above sea lever
Kfneo towering above Moosehead Lake.
and score OF lesser peaks. "oae na n.eI
well as men test endurance now ana i. sesk
health and strength In getting to the very
top, lust as women equally with men are
coming to take the greatest interest," ~ ~
camp life on the trail. That is new, but ~
Is a feature of the magic strengthening air
of Mane. .,..
In late years the State has been steadily
acquiring fame also by new class OF re-
sorts .wefl-apponted hotels in the mountains.
where there are all the sports and Pastims,s
cities, and the views and the fishing such as
are especially att tributed to Maine. Such are
several natural spring resorts upon whlch
huge sums have been spent In improve.
ments. The pine woods are about tnem,
on one side are the purple 81 lhouettee OF the
White Mountains and from the other towers
the blue haze of the States own valleys
and lakeland.
But in mountain scenery pure and sim
pie, the clear atmosphere which makes
with startling distinct ness and breathing
a Joy after months in city air, for the perfect
peace of mountain and valley scenery,
Maine must yield the palm to her sister
State, New Hampshire.
The White Mountains are unapproach-
able in this country in their particular type
of natural beauty. They are the Alps OF
America in their attraction TO visitors.
and New Hampshire is the American
Switzerland At one point, the visitor
may sit in comfort upon hotel balcony
and think himself at the mouth of one OF
the valleys that open upon the Rhone.
Nothing is in view but wide meadows, with
clustering groups of trees and an expanse
of green over which the sunlight plays IN
arabesques Of light and shade now, in long
now in gentle fanciful play about the dark
naples and through the feathery foliage
Of graceful elms.
There is Mount Kearsarge. like a great
sentinel guarding the approach TO the
famous Crawford Notch and there are the
equally celebrated Cathedral Pine Woods.
fragrant asles carpeted with brown pine
needles and winding among splendid tower
ing columns and under lofty arches, stirred
at times by the summer breeze. Mount De-
ception, Mount Washington, and dozen
other peaks hem in the region beauties.
Mountains of the snowy forehead, the
Indians called them. 70 visit them hardly
century ago was an adventure me ral,1
roads have brought them within reach OF all
the East, A group OF the finest mountain
hotels in the country has sprung up on
their slopes, and now hundreds OF healt and
pleasure seekers fill these from early in the
season until late.
Coming nearer home, of a slightly dif-
ferent type, though with most of these ad-
vantages in almost equal degree, are the
Berkshire and Ltchfield hills in Western
Massachusetts and Connecticut The
quaint old towns OF Pittsfeld Lenox. Stock
bridge and Great harrington are dotted
about this hill country, and Longfellow,
Hawthorne. Holmes. Jonathan Edwards:
Charming, Thoreau and many more OF
EprlopH's lannon's have LETT
the region memories which are added
charms.
There are few more beautiful views in New
England than the Housatonic which alter
natey meanders tortuously and rushes IN
silyery cascades through this most fertile
of natures parks. The hills. beautiful
Lake Waramaug give to it added beauty;
There are noble outlines great trees and
knee-deep grass everywhere. and IT Is as
beautiful in spring and in late fall as it is in
City fashion has made Ienox one of its
chief country homes. 1t is country OF
smooth, good roads and delightful drive
wavs. The scenery has not the wild pict-
uresqueness OF the region further north.
but it has all the peaceful beauty which
tradition associates with New England,
Every acre of 1t now breathes prosperity.
Magnificent cottages, which are so taste
full that it is no sin to call them cottages.
though in interior luxury they are man
sions' have been built all around and are
occupied for the greater part oil the year
by che city's rich.
There are comfortable. roomy. old inns
and newer style hotels which from May
bits Of New England have grown and are
steadily growing more in popularity in the
last few years than this fertile section;
This is preaminently cottage colony
Is i not there that the twin Bay and Nutmeg
States are seen to their best advantage.
The lower New England seashore along
and above the Sound as far north as Bos-
ton is the lodestone which draws half the
visitors who take the journey from New
York city to the northeastward. In thi.,
section is every type of shore resort, and
each year an increasing class of people
from this city discovers and popularizes
a new one.
popular and probably never VIII deserve
the title. Narragansett Pier with its mile
long level bathing beach, cool surf. casino
and gay cottage and hotel colonies, Is a
shade more popular in the strict sense OF
the word-livelier and gayer than Newport
ever dares to he. yet still striving after
excusiveness, and to a degree attainingit
Near by it Block Island, always cool on
the hottest days, with it's dainty yacht fleet
at anchor, and Watch Hill, Narragansftt :
Jamestown, on Conanicut, Island, directly
opposite Newport has clear, cool water
and a picturesque rocky outline seen 10
greater advantage than has the rich mans
colony. The whole Ave resorts form
group as interesting as any collection along
the Atlantic seaboard and have as warm
friends AS any.
Out in the ocean. Nantucket, once sold
for the magnificent sum of ESQ with two
beaver hats thrown in, and later richest
port along the At lantic and home port OF
the whaling fleet has attracted to itself
clientele which is slowly but surely chang
ing its face in summer time. There is no
such deep-saa fishing near this coast
az there is OF Nantucket among the blue
fish; no ouainter memories than are stirred
by q stroll through its rapidly changing
streets. Those who have been there once
are anxious so return, and everybody else
seems to wish so sse as much as possible
of the old settlement before it disappears
altogether.
Then there is Marthas Vineyard, with
it's three villages and crooked rambling
highways, now the summer home OF
host of rich men from cities that have
not it's auaintnesG; Plymouth. which ,as every
child knows. is built around the rock on
which the Pilgrims landed on the the heel
of Cape Cod bay; Cape Cod itself with the
full force OF the cool Atlantic breakers
beating upon its outer edge; Mystic, an ideal
resort for seekers afteir, quiet and rest.
Manchester and Magnolia, seaside homes
of Boston's fashionable set, and besides
these Bridgeport, Southport, Westport and
the whole line of Sound shore resorts.
There is every kind of haunt for every