Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-06-17
sOUTHERN's SUMMER FOLDER;
BOOKLET UNUSUALLY ELABORATE
Will be Distributed by the Thousands
Throughout the United States
Hany Handsome Illustrations.

Summer in the Land of the Sky, -
the summer home folder issued an
nually by the passenger department of
! the Southern Railway company, has
just come from the press and is being
distributed among vacation seekers
throughout the country by the thou
sands. This years booklet is by far
the most elaborate ever issued by the
Southern and those who have seen
copies of the publication believe that
its distribution will be of untold benefit
to the resort. towns and cities of the
North Carolina playground region.
Printed in four colors, the front and
back covers have typical mountain
scenes and thirty-five pages of descrip-
tive matter and illustrations tell of the
wonderful advantages of this section
of the state Scenes of grandeur
among the mountains of the western
part of North Carolina are presented
and pictures of hotels and boarding
houses throughout the Land of the
Sky present pleasing appearance.
Each town and city within the ter
ritory which attracts thousands of
summer visitors annually is given
prominent space in the booklet and the
opportunities for health seeking, the
pursuit of pleasure and rest are de-
scribed in vivid style. Lists of hotels
and boarding houses are published.
The Introduction follows:
when out of the days occupation
comes the children's hour in the long
summer vacation; when with the gath
ering glory of the year the bounding
nj ~
from somber realities; when the cares
of life wear upon the strength of man
hood, and when the evening of life has
laid it's crown of beauty upon whiten-
ing heads, there comes to each one the
longing for the wide, great open, for
murmuring waters and the sweet
tangled Wildwood for broad, spread
ing meadows and illimitable distances;
for the rugged appeal of the noun
teins and the speaking silences of the
fields. Back to the soil, back to the
God-made country under the wide,
blue canopy that stretches, c1oud-feck-
ed and gilded, to the boundless hori-
zon, the gentle air descending in bless
ings Of incense-laden breeze and carry
ing back the coronation song of all
created things that find the joy of liv-
ing in the eternal harmonies and
beauties of nature. After the first
leaping response to the call of the
wild, that slumbers in us all, comes the
sober second thought--the where, the
how, and the when. The greater num-
Der of vacation idlers are intent upon
a period Of restful recreation and pre-
fer nature in her more genial moods,
in a land where, she has chosen to
suspend her majestic mountains, wind !
ing rivers, sparkling lakes and grassy
valleys under summer sky.
To such the beautiful region of
Western North Carolina issues it's ap-
peal in no uncertain terms, and those
who have once journeyed thither will
never heed the call of other scenes nor
long for more wondrous sights. In
this favored region lies the epitome of
all vacation delights. Here the travel
er may feast his soul on a new attrac-
ton every day; here the adventurous
spirit will find satisfaction aplenty,
and for all who, by reason of long as
sociation with the good things of life.
seem inclined to seek cool retreat
and yet be not deprived of those refln-