The sun., 1910-05-15
NEARBY SUMNER RESORTS
TEE NEW JERSEY LANES AND
THE POCONO REGION.
CAnoslna a. Lake Hopateons-ChaFms
- the PennsylVaniA MOuntAlns-
RamapS Valley AItFaetions-.Along
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the Erle -The Canadian wilderness.
Somewhere out beyond the western !
hnla, N you know where that Is. Is
o6nnary OF lakes and pinnacles. with a
Ave- Sowing over shadows. The hills
sys not too high and the lakes are not
too large, neither Is the river a turbulent
rant.Ss thing that is hard on your nerves
Do YOU understand It's place, there
haVnnd the western ridge where you
drmae have 20 dodge taNicahs all day and
can spend the hours having a good time
Win pretty things.
Tha POconO Mountains. the lakes ot
View Jersey In and around the Ramapo
rpaion. the Delaware Water Gap, Lake
HopaiOong. the-Well. there are other
r'laces too out in that country. and there :
nst tA1icab in sight Of course there
ayS automobiles. but they are mans size
auanmObiles Possibly you will go out
thFo h one yourself. but when Il comes
10 moving q family and getting there IN
a hustle yourself of a Friday night take
the train. Have Frank and the car meet
you a station or two this side Of your stop
ping place. II you must and get the air;
! but The train is the easiest way out, and
} dSubtless the family wants the car any
how.
There are hotels out in that region
which can FIX you up with most Of the
things you want It's an easy way Of
living. Roll out IT bed in the morning.
take a tub or a plunge there are places
on lakes where Il is a simple matter 10
tsss a plunge before breakfast devour
such food as the proprietor and Provl-
cisucs So A. 10 endOw you with, and then
20 about the days business. Go down
and listen TO the water come tapping
against the dock That is a good. restful
occupation and a great deal better than
profaning your eardrums with the rattle
~ your stenoRmphers typewriter
Il doesn't make q bit Of difference
whether the wind is out of the southeast
or the northwest. The ripple and the
wash are the same. One means far
weather. it n true. and the other means
foul but anybody who likes 20 watch the
weAther 90 through ts PAGES doesn
ca-e rap one way or the other. When
the wind is fair the gusts come dancing
across the lake. smiling and blue. BY
the way, nobody who had lived on fresh
water would speek Of soggy temper
az the blues. When the wind is blowing
up q storm the little waves are done in
biack. with the cresss left white, and
~ you sit on the edge Of the dock you
hear them hiss.
There must be canoes on those lakes.
10 there aren't there ought % h..
Anyhow. II you plan % be- there
more than two weeks take one
along for yourself There il no fun
rowing a boat on a companionahle sheet
oi water such as the lakes Of Jersey oGer
20 you. roWboat is not an intimate
thing. You might a. well try 20 get into
the spirit Of a bride path riding on an
siuphant IN a canoe you can 49, whore
Won are goipg. You can push her nuse
into the littiest coves and up the slender
ast streams. You can float alongside a
rock. and " you want 20 vOu can reach
o,.t your hand and stroke IL and still be-
floating.
There is this advantage in owning your
canoe. You can make a friend ~ IL and
learn its ways lou know that there
isn't much Of anything harder 70 get init
mate than with a livery horse It's either
broken hearted or suspicious. hut Il
YOU own your horse and ride him every
day YOU learn what he will do when b.
meets a train and what he will do when
you leave him browsing while you q
'AfteF blueberries lts the same way
VITA a canoe. II IL is your own you
know how far you can t-tist ~ humping
into seas. and you know too what % will
a in swift water and how swiftly you can
t1rn IL aside from a rock
Well that IL the reason why you MAJ
want a canoe of your own if you 60 TO
Lake Hopatcong OF 10 some Of the other
little lakes IN Jersey or IN Orange county
New York Il is not the same reason
a. al that you will want your old walking
houts and your old cooking stun. yoyg
mack aud the familiar companion They
are seasoned with time and you have "a
sentimental attachment Tor them Others
might do precisely a. we'll, but you
woahdn't give up the old ones for any
thing in the world Once upon a time
young man buried his camp breech@s
in a hundred feet Of wafer with farewell
address Sentimental. foolish n you
please. but illustrative.
In the Pocono Mountains there are
chances for walks just A. there are m
the Catskills and the Berkshires There
is enough wildnsss 10 make the walking
Interesting. There are wood roads which
begin nowhere and end nowhere They
are not like the roads that men build on
ths levels. They connect nothing with
nothing. and yet some Of them are the
pleasAntsst walking in the world, partly
because OF that very uncertainty,
After a while perhaps they get 10 dull
the trail gets 20 III defined that you can't
fer the life Of you SEQ where il goes
The trees have grown up in Il and their
branches form a perfect interlaceTy over
head There 10 a chance that after a
while the trees are thinner Anyhow
you are determined. II you have any
woodnan's blood IN your veins. 20 follow
4 out % the end and there 10 strong
EhelihOOd that this isn't the end
81 what DO you dos There IL one way
1ill 70 follow Il. Drop down on your knees
and look for the wheel rIts. II there are
20 wheel ruts there s still chance that
there IL a depression where men and
beasts used 10 walk, hollow scOoped out
a, tk. s-raau. that "A tha trail aud % ,.a4s