The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-09-11
vermonts Uncounted Guests.

mont does from early June W carly
November. The hotel registers do
not show it; the boarding house lists
do not show it. There is no means
of knowing the full extent of the ae-
tiyity because Il large percentage OF
the business, perhaps more than half,
is to be found in the private homes OF
every city, Village and hamlet from
Beebe Plains to South Vernon and
from White River Jhnction to LARA
bees point AS soon as the summer
sun begins to warm this northern
cline the guests begin to come and
they keep on coming until the chill
north wind begins to sweep over the
green mountain tops and through the
beautiful valleys. Not many OF these
amounted guests are paying custom
ers, that is, paying in the recognized
coin OF the realm for they are rela-
lives, dear friends, or merely ae-
quaintances of less cemented ties
with their hosts and hostesses. Their
money would not be accepted by
those who are entertaining them; in
deed. it would be an insult for the
guests to offer their filthy lucre.
They come and they are gladly vel
coined to such as the average home in
Vermont can offer; and the pleasure
OF entertaining them is compensation
enough for those whose homes are
thus visited, with perhaps now and
then return visit to the far away
homes of the visitors at some other
and less propitious season of the year
in Vermont.
1t would be interesting to know just
how many of these no-paying visitors
come into Vermont during the
months when outdoor life is at its
height: but it is impossible to know.
However, one may easily imagine
that the grand total is very large, The
press of the state tells at intervals,
but only with partial completeness.
Take, for instance, any copy OF The
Times and turn to the town cores
pondence and you will be struck at
the proportion OF the items which are
devoted to the chronicling of the com
ings and the goings of out Of the state
persons, some just arriving TO visit
relatives and friends, others just go
ing after spending pleasant weeks
amid the real hospitality which Yer
mont people are wont to show. And
the pages of all the other newspapers
of the state reflect a similar current
of persons, coming and going. In
deed, one is apt to marvel that some
of the smaller communities can en-.
terrain so many visitors. There must
be at least one such visitor to every
home in the community on the aver
age. But still the home life and the
community life 20 along With much
the same methodical movement eX,
cept now and then quiGkeped by the
activities which the newcomers bring
with their exubesance of feeling al
| the freer life OF the country. with
| their Introduction of some new ways
untried in the little old state Of Yer
mont The communities respond tc
them The humdrum of life is TEN
porarily shaken out Of itself The vii
layers join, at first sluggishly and
then feyorishly, in the activities
which the newcomers have stirred III
o. caused TO be stirred up. For sew
oral months Of the year Vermont
feels the pulse OF an outside world
and is glad. 1t is the annual reawak
ening of scores OF little communities
back in the secluded parts of the
green mountains. There is JOY in il
for the home people as we'll as for
the visitors. And the home PEOPLE
look forward with keen anticipation
| to the coming of the visitors. The
summer is made the more enjoyable
by their presence. In fact, summer
without them would be somewhat dull
| in spite of the natural beauties. So
the visitors are welcomed, welcomed
with all the animation that they them
selves experience on being back in
Vermont again 1t is big business
which Vermont thus is engaged upon
paying big, too. not in money. but in
real pleasure. May they continue to
come!-Barre Times.