Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-07
IOWA'S BYWAYS.
Touring at Home as Seen by One
of Cur Well Known Citizens.

lance lends enchantment and so in
accessible that you need a guide t
keep you from getting lost and We
comfortable enough to rest you wheI
you get there after enduring the
Iprivation and hardship of a midsum
mer tour through a barren desert
Get handbook and view the loca
geography in the light of its fancifu
names and its romantic or tragic
stories. Buy a handful of coloret
Souvenir postals and there you are
Colorado.
Reel two.-In your auto, or your
neighbours auto, some bright June
morning go find an Iowa glen. There
is one two or three hours ride from
almost any home in Iowa. On the
way scented clover, waving grain and
rustling corn will delight the senses
Arrived, you may fish, swim, ex.
lplore, rest or kodak-diversion I'M
! limited Returning in the cool OF
the evening recall your Colorado
jaunt, compare it with this Iowa
outing and reflect that full many a
glen in Iowa serene was born to
blush unseen and waste its sweet
ness on the prairie air.
1t is an odd effect of the develop
ment of the rubber tire business that
there is keen demand for local
scenery. An inventory shows that
Iowa has a big stock on hand. Some
localities must manufacture its
parks and show places. The raw pro-
duct here fills the bill.
Iowa is a big farm, not a resort.
There are places in which sightseers
and Fairgrounds are the only re-
source. Manitou lives on tourists.
But not all of Iowa is tillage. AS in
any we'll regulated farm there are
highways and byways, pastured
hooks and sheltered corners, wood
ed streams running crosslot like
hedges and terraced slopes for park
ing on its outer borders.
DEBORAH stands in this terraced
park In our valley of the Oneota
are crags and pinnacles as grotesqua
as any in the Garden of the Gods
Pixies Peak at McGregor presents a
panorama as wonderful as that to
be seen on Pixies Peak in Colorado
Travellers in the Alps tell us that we
have here in northeast Iowa Sec
ond Switzerland. 1t is true that to
those who live near, things must be
beautiful which daily viewed, please
daily and whose attractiveness sur
wives long knowledge and the scru.
tiny of years. 1t is the traveller and
not the native who is enraptured
with the Italian sky, which they
say is no bluer than the Iowa sky
can be at times.
The glamour of tourist resorts is
in Fart due to advertising. Iowa
might profit also from a little
The many existing
printings pertaining to community
attractions might well be correlated
and made into scenic Iowa book
let covering the state.
Motoring is the fad of the day.
Touring is epidemic Possibly it is
eugenic, a recessive quality-Wig-
gam would say that though our par
entS may be staid and contented in
the plCdding FAITHS, they have been
trustees of the germ of vagabondage,
which was all the go once before
with some of our ancestors. (Send
for a blank, Cold Springs Harbor, l..
ID Or, perhaps it is a disease due to
newly acquired toXicity il an anne
ba or bacillus The virus is prevail
ent and very catching. The infection
is not dangerous, does no harm, in
deed on the contrary many claim to
have been benefited by an attack.
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