The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-19
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Pleasures Of Make Believe Visits 70
the Summer Resorts.
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The man with the armful of summer
resort literature smiled when a friend
accOsted him and glanced curiOUsly at
the bundle of printed matter.
Trying to figure out what that stuff
iSI' he said TO the aCCOstiug friend.
Wei, it's summer trip stuff. Mighty
well written, as rule, Good deal of it
enticingly illustrated. I've got bales
of it, but there's new and attractive
trip stuff coming out all the time, and
my wife and I like TO keep up to date
on the new trips.
You see, this is about the time of
the year that my wife and ] begin to
make what we cali our little imaginary
visits TO the summer resorts You and
your wife ever UIy that2 It's a great
scheme. The next best thing to going
away for the summer is TO play going
away. / only get two weeks vacation
year. generally at the latter part of
September, and then wife and i go up
TO quiet little place we know of i'm
the Blue Ridge. and climb hills and
drink milk and eat yellOw-legged chick
ems and sleep a good deal OF the time.
This isn't saying, though. that we
Wouldn't like 90 take i'm all of the sum
mer resorts, one after the other, If such
thing were II the cards. But itsnot
and so He just begin to play taking EN-
all as soon ass the hot weather sets in
My dear says my wife TO me. aft
e. the dinner dishes have an been
cleared away and I've got my pipe
a-g0ing 'suppOsing we take a little run
up To the Thousand Islands, j think
both OF us need little change and I've
been told by friends that the Thousand
Islands country is lovely
VERY Well I reply TO her. When
would you like 10 Start2'
Immediately she SAYS. seriously.
20. k say /. I'm agreeable Any
thing for your pleasure. All aboard
And then I slip up to where she's got
the summer resort literature an neatly
dled away. and I pun out the three or
four pounds OF booklets and maps aud
things from the drawer that she's la
beIed Thousand Islands.
II take the stun down stairs and
dump IL on tire floor. and then we both
sil down on the floor and begin to look
over the pictures I'M the booklets. and
play that we're really seated on the
grassy sWard uf one Of those fairy is
lets, with the cool, woody evening
breeze ON our faces and the low whis-
perlug OF Che clear emerald waters I'm
our ears. We know that the evening
breeze up around the Thousand Islands
Is cool and woody and that the clear
pering because the reading matter Of
the booklets tells MS SO. Often as not
this same text. written around the
Eeauutui photograFEres. contains some
Canadian voyageur's evening song. and
when we run across one of these why.
my wife gets TO grooming a Whimsical
air of her own deYising 10 ut the words
of the sons and then. by George. I
can half close my eyes and just mag
Inc that I'm on the grassy sWard of
one of the Thousand Islands. sure
enough. You've uo idea how one of
those little piay-trips up around that
beautiful region cools Oft the atmos-
pAere of our somewhat warm little sit
ting room.
next evening it's my turn to sug-
gcst trip
Look a-here. my dear I say 30
my wife Tn becoming dueed tired of
these conventional trius that we've
been making every summer Tired OF
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