The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-22
NIGHTS ARE COOL
IN MOUNTAINS OF
OLD VIRGINIA
Valleys Filled With Delightful
Resorts Where Heat Is
Not Feared
PLACES OF PLEASURE
FOR RICH AND POOR
Palatial Hotels for Those Who
Can Afford and Cottages
for Those Whose Taste
Is Less Exacting
Far from the sweltering streets.

/ ,s..ta alt. roaming ana visions turn
! nv. ana the longing FIR cooler chimes.
! snere kind breezes blow all day long
and the sun shines less intensely, is
rising within every human breast
/ Dreams Of cool, starlit mountain peaks
come in the long, hot nights. and
/ hours I'm melting offices are spent In
dreaming of cool walks among the
! mountain pines and down by the
mountain lakes and the small streams
4 that flow onward 10 the sea
1 1t il. after all, but a question or
! finance whether one shall take va
l cation of two weeks or more as
weu-earned relief from the years
/ work, and that may easily be settied,
for the mountains contain resorts that
will suit every mans means one
NAV go. if ne can, to the more fash
i tonable resorts, where the days are
spent in golfing. tennis. riding and
driving, and the nights in dancing or
Il sitting on wide, moon-swept lawns.
i on the other hand, the man who does
not rate himself as capitalist and Is
1 unknown to Bradstreet and Dunn, the
( humble Office clerk and the salesman
|! and salesgirl can find some quiet re-
sort where the delights are less costly
| though Just as joyous and where board
and lodging will not cost them every
H cent they have made during the win
/ ter months.
Hotels and Cottages Abound,
+ In the foot hills OF the Blue Ridge
i ana high among the mountains are
1 hotels and cottages waiting to be fill
L ed with summer visitors, inviting All
to the transports of cool days and
breezy nights and the quiet calm
1 which only the mountains and their
dreaming valleys know. a month orr
two weeks in the mountains reViVes
the yigor of youth, strengthens the
lungs, gives one an appetite and re-
freshens him so that, when he re-
!, turns, he will not find his work so
arduous The mountain breezes carry
no bacteria and the springs are free
from the germs of fever There the
native people live until they -cannoti
remember all their years, and there
communicating disease is practically
unknown.
The Blue Ridge mountains rise 1000
feet and more from the level of the
sea and the Alleghenies outtop them,
rising almost sheer on the other side
of the famous Shenandoah valley. The
scenery Is wild and picturesque, and
a part of the Blue Ridge, lying be-
tween Hump Back mountain ana
Black Rock Springs, has been called
the little Switzerland of America.
Here one may almost walk upon the
clouds, stretching on either side or
him over the valley in the West and
the lowlands in the East. AT the
touch of the morning sun they SHIN
mer awhile and then melt and fade
away, opening to the vision as fair
view as ever man gazed upon. And
from Hump Back mountain, If you
believe everything the lank noun
taineer tells you, you may on clear
day see the seven hills of Richmond
| and even through the distance descry
the capital Of the nation.
May Always BE Cool.
| But the mountaineers whose home
instict Is greater than that of any
other people are apt to glorify their
hills with the fond revealing OF mag
nation. 1t is true though, that here
the days are never too warm for com
fort, and blankets, and several of
them, are in demand at night. There
is a constant current of air, cool and
sweet, and one brcathes in the oxygen
which eXhiiirates more than wine,
There are hundreds of diversions to
while away the days, Bride paths ira
verse the woods, and where one cam
not ride one can walk and see the pam
Drama of nature uuf0lded before him.
Perched upon some hillside rock, laid
bare by an upheaVaI aeoEs ago, one