Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-09-27

| ' Ao~1 VI tne saHt Iutlo to oblivion
winter worries such % fret even thu
moneyed folk,
Down among the Old Orchard sands
the weslthy French Of Montreal and the
provinces and the gold burdened He-
brews OF New York find Q welcome that
has been almost exclusively theirs Of late
aud without question.
| Up-country, the anglers in spring and
the hunters in fall take their toll ~
salmon and trout, deer and moose. and
leave behind them greater prosperity for
the natives.
| And for the common folks, hither and
yon, there are the innumerable coves and
forest retreats, highlands and dells.
where the lure of nature satisfies through
summer vacations thousands who weary
OF city turmoil, social conventions and the
drudgeries Of life. For these people
Maine has . wonderful mine OF good
health and comfort for body and intel
iect and souli Casco bay is dotted with
these roof-trees where happiness sbides,
Seguin overlooks innumerable others. 80
also do Penobscot bay and the Machias
and st. Croix waters have their garden
plots. And under the forest trees and
nested on cool heights more OF these good
folks turn Nomadic for the vacation sea-
son and court comfort perhaps more sue
cessfuily than Weather visitors in pals-
tial homes or hotels.
'The self-same sun that shines upon his
court,
Hides not his vissge from our cottage, but
Looks on both alike"
dominant, however, o. Q factor in
Names development - summer resort,
are these hotels. Much have they done
to advertise our scenery, the purity and
heslth-restoring qualities OF our waters,
the supremacy OF Maine % '1The Play
ground OF the Nstion". Poland Spring
has long been foremost in this work,
fianked by equally famous hostelries ct
Samoset and now ct Moosehead lake;
while cabins, redolent OF pine and spruce
and clean woodsy odors, hail the fisher
and hunter with pleasing aspect. Notable
and important also is the transformation
seen in the homes Of the natives, where
stufiy "best rooms" and close blinded par
lors have been converted into sunny
quarters for the summer boarder.
So it is that Maine's wealth Of scenery
and natures charms are bringing gold
and silver to her Golfers and health to her
people. For it is sadly true that the Wis.,
itor was needed in Maine to teach Maine
how to live. The bigness of the western
plains and hills and the love OF the big
out-of-doors all but died with the dying
Indian; and the white, deep-eaved cots on
our Maine farms have housed bad air and
fostered consumption. But the vision is
again with US. The health Of the Maine
hills is becoming The health of the Maine
homes. Outdoor living is here to stay, and
not by summer alone, but by winter also.
"'Tis night upon the lake. Our bed OF boughs
Is built where-high above-the pine tree
soughs.
'Tis still-and yet what woody noises loom
Against the background Of the silent glooml
One might well hear the opening Of q flower,
II day were hushed as this"
And in the train Of all these good
things comes to Maine the development
OF her resources as a winter playground;
of the winter sports, OF her winter
charms, OF her winter health giving
qualities. Just across the northern from
tier Montreal and Quebec have monopo-
liked them, season after season. But
snow-shoeing and toboganning, skating
Ice boating and skiing, winter tramping
and winter camping have crossed the
boundary line to the south, and Maine
has begun to appropriate her own in this
respect. Last season, practically for the
first time, some one Of the largest Maine
hotels exploited winter attractions and
found it profitable. And this is but the
beginning OF an undreamed-of winter
future for Maine.
One is minded of Thoreau's words in
1.-THE Maine Woods, where, in the de-
scription OF his rambles around Katahdin,
he speaks OF "the irrepressible tenderness
and immortal life Of the grim forest, where
nature, though it be in mid-winter, is
ever in her spring, where the moss-grown
and decaying trees are not old but seem to
enjoy perpetual youth; and blissful, in
nocent nature, like a serene infant, is too
happy to make a noise, except by few
tinkling, isping birds apd trickling rills.
What place to live, what place to die
and be buried in! There, certainly" he
concludes, ssmen would live forever and
laugh at death and the grave"
With Whittier do Names summer
guests declare:
"Keep who will the city's alleys,
Take the smooth-shorn plain,
Give to us the cedar valleys,
Rocks and hills Of Maine!
In our North-land, wild and woody,
Let us still have part;
Rugged nurse and mother sturdy,
Hold us to thy hearth
ORLAND.