Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-08

Is n sub-tropical belt with an equablc
climate, writes New York Tribune
correspondent under Penzance date.
The moan Temperature Is 10 degrees
higher In winter and 10 degrees lower
ir summer than that OF London. This
Imakes IL health resort for invalid.;
the sketching ground of painters and
the pleasure haunt OF trlppers at all
seasons. DryncsS would complete its
Iattractions as winter resort, for
there Is bracing air on tho st. Ives
clihs, orr softer, balmlor breeze ON
Tho Pcnzanco rim of Mounts Bay,
with a walking line OF six or eight
miles between the seaboards. Humid
ity is not a serious drawback when
the latitude Is that of Northern New
foundland and the temperature often
higher than in the Riviera. IL the
skies are gray and hazy more fire.
qucntly than they are blue and clca.
there is the charm of modulatcd light
without dazzling glare to transligurc
the wild. rugged coasts and tho des-
olatc. trecless moors and heaths be-
hind them. The pervadng moisture
not only dampens the roads. but also
keeps the verdure fresh on cliff and
1 OPtb R'i iooto aiih tdnttf
Has do not cease TO bloom In Deccm-
bor. nor fuchsias and daisies in Jam
uary; and even in backward Feb.
ruary rhododendrons, myrtlcs and
Ihydrangeas are reyclllng In warmth.
violcts and wild hyacinths are flower-
Ing In sheltered corners, and gorSe
and dafodils arc lighting up hedge
rows and meadows with golden glory.
If the display OF palms and cxotics
in the Morrab gardens behind the
ISSplanadc be disappointing romin.
der that the real tropics are n long
way or. a lcisurely stroll along the
cliff paths, or a longer dash over the
hills to st. Just or St Buryan, offers
proof that the earliest and balmicst
English spring Ia hero and in tho
Settles.
1nvalids ought to be cheerful and
happy In Penzance, especially when
there arc rich mists Of sunlight over
the long combcs and granite patches
inland, as there have been In my
ramblcs. They do not seem content
ed when they line In solemn state
with a muster OF fifty or sixty under
a single roof. re-occupicd with
hacking cough or creeping chill, they
cat or smoke in silence, take their
ailments with morbid seriousness,
complain of the fints In the roads
and OF the haze In the sky and cx-
hibit the torpid inertia OF molluscry.
The Gulf Stream. dividing OF the
Settles and warming each side OF
the narrow. rock bound promontory,
Is an effective system of heating ap-
paratus. but 1t cannot raise tho tenn
peraturc and counteract the depress-
ing influence of large company of
well-to- do English invalids who are
watching their symptoms. worrying
owed their digestion and exhausting
their energies In killing time, What
causes them moro irritation than
slavery weather or dull, gray sky.
rs the appearance of thoroughly
healthy animals in walking suits, who
live In the open air. caper along the
coastguard paths like goats and chat.
ter vivaciously about twenty I've
mile tramp when they themselves are
GREATNESS and footsode after a ten
minute turn in the Morrab Gardeps.
and ache In every rheumatic joint at.
ter a three mile drive to Mount st.
Michaels.
II is to the old-fashioned walker
that the Lands End district appeals
with irresistible fascination. The
roads are too rough for comfortable
driving or cycling. The motor omni.
buses running to st. Just or Semen
are nosy rattletraps. filled with gar
lrulous miners and rustics. The
walker Is released from dependence
upon these jolting. nerve rending ve-
hicles and at liberty to head for the
Icoastguard path across the fields, and
when he has found 1t. to follow the
lsea in long circuit OF high cliffs and
deep ravlnes. Having left Cape Co, n.
wall behind him. he sees the Settles
lar seaward and presses on to the
quaint village of Semen and the
granite headland of Lands End. with
DR.. Johnsons grim features high
above the islets and with the natural
tunnel where western and southern
seas are ever clashing. The walk has
barely begun at the wcstcrnmost look
out in England, for the cliffs arc to
be followed from one bowlder.heap-
led, lichcn coated cape TO another un.
It'll Logan Rock. or If the time serves
until LamouDa Cove Is reached. One
picturesque cove succeeds another
with shingles of yellow sand under
meath precipitous rock facades pierre
cd with caverns; and the whitewash
cd stones lead on over abysmal ra-
wines and lofty terraces. with the
ocean ever in sight and equally glo-
rious under gray or blue sky. One
lofty escarpmcnt marks shifting OF
The trend Of the coast from south to
cast, and behind 1t in a sheltered ho!
low Is tiny village. st. Levan, with
ilychgate and church tower o. Tho