The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-07-26
VACATIONS BY CHANCE.
tho best, eays . Summer Phiiesopher,
Are Those Not Planned IN Advance.

- VAOhA AUNO OA OAh<AsNDs
Tho nest, says o summer Phiiesopher,
Are Those Not Planned IN Advance.
sThe most enjoyable vacations are those
that are not planned too carefully or too
much In advance, said the sumrner philoso-
pher. at 10 quite true that We do not 40
quire this wisdom without experience and
that the school boy and girl like to have
the vacation matter all settled early 10 the
spring time.
But plans 20 wrong. and when people
tie themselves up In hard and fast arrange
ments as to cottages. rooms In hotels or
travelling accommodations months ahead
they find often when the time arrives for
the holiday that the place arranged for La
the very last they would choose IL the choice
could be made over again.
"A few years ago at our house we used
to begin to talk over the summer trip way
back In April. We made lists Of things
that had to be done and purchases that
must be made and got lists Of resorts and
outes 90 that we would be all ready when
the hot weather came on.
sOne q II was illness that interviewed
and kept III home all summer long. And
one OF the things that we had been planning
for was q sort Of canoing camp ut q noun
tain lake. We had the amos n sets OF
paddles and the tent and the utensils for
cooking and queer sorts Of bedding and
blankets; everything neatly packed ready
to ship, and that was the nearest we got
to camping and canoing that year.
Another time W. picked out a pretty
little cottage with a double piazza and
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and planned to live In bathing suits most
OF the time.
we took possession about the first week
In May and when July arrived and summer
vacationists swarmed over the beach, eat
ing lunches and strewing the remnants on
the sand, We would wander back to the city
hat and set the electric fan going and CON-
graduate ourselves that We had some place
to escape 70.
.Ever since then We 60 slow in regard to
making definite plans and we let the chill
dren poster " t Nun do Gnes srriHs. I when we
are ready to board the train or the boat
for some piaoe which We never our on
being up to it's photographic description In
the railroad circulars.
@The best summers we have had have been
those that Just happened. and In the matter
Of expense we saved money by letting
chance drive US In tho way Of something
that suited our tastes at the time.
One fact We have 10 guide us Ii that
Of our own experience IN getting tired Of
July there are bungalow tenants that are
willing to dispose OF their leases by the
week or any way in which they a get
away for q change somewhere,
And It Is JUS, the same with yachts.
motor boats. shacks by the sea and house use
have been cruising around In them since
sThe crafty vacationist looks out for
opportunities like these. They are not
so plenty at the fashionable summer places,
waters about New Jersey and Long Island
you can find any number OF houseboats
and other craft lying idle.
The houseboat Is an alluring place to
put In o week OF two, and as they lie at
anchor as q rule there, 10 no danger as 70
at q sleepy old fishing village on the shrews-
bury, and for three weeks we lived In primi-
tive but comfortable fashion, taking morn
ing swims from The back piazza and sleep
ing on the roof under an awning nights.
This year We are going In search OF
but We are going to pick 1t up second hand
get into some Of the camping. districts
and prowl o looking for
from guides and country folks.
'In the Adirondatks one summer we
across q group Of four artists, a man
and his wife and two young women. who
wera delightfully."- housed In an old unused
barn, painted red and with Q loft which was
the boudoir Of the young ladies, reached
by q ladder. but fixed up charmingly with
cheeseoloth pulled over the walls. mating
rugs and camp beds.
Downstairs Il was positively palatial.
and they piuicked In the woods, cooked
over campfires or had their meals sent from
a farmhouse near by, just as they choee.
They happened on this place by accident
and probably never would have come
IL II they had started in the conven-
tional manner looking for e home,
OF the barn win find cottages and bunga-
lows, plenty Of them. by the Jersey rivers
and down on the Long Island shores; not at
the popular beaches, but near enough to
be within reach Of things.
sYou cannot find these places In May and
June, when the renting season In at it's
height and every one IL looking to making
profit OF the season. But midsummer
Is the time for bargains in the way Of vaca-
tons -
q resting spell with Hight baggage and sim.
pie clothing and are prepared to look about
II lie q sort Of 'Rndder Grange
spirit that possesses US. and the further
get away from elevators and electric
liRhts and starched clothing the better
like Il. We're liable to take TO anything
that we come across. from a canal boat to q
caravan