Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-26
Frederic @ask6m:s Letter
MIGRATORY NELL

boes who never miss their vaca-
tons in the. sunny south.
There are quite q few Households
on the Mississippi whose owners
are as far from the plutocrat class
as they are from that Of vagabonds,
which move annually from the
neighborhood Of Minneapolis to
that Of New Orleans. The current
pays all the mileage on the way
down, and usually a small motor
boat laboriously propels the craft
back. Lucky is the individual who
has q trade or profession that will
enable him to lead such Q delight
fully vagrant life. A good many jit-
neys are seen moving southwark
at this time Of the year too. and
their battered and spattered ap-
pearance and the camp outfits
strapped to the running boards are
eloquent testimony that they be-
long to the sort of people who have
a good time without being million
aires.
II the United States, with its un-
stable climate, is q poor one for
the perpetual stay-at home. it is an
exceptionally good one for the
habitual migrant. He can md It in
any temperature and any shade of
climate that he wants. The New
Yorker can take a fast train one
day and get of the next morning
in North Carolina, in an entirely
different climate cool, but never
cold-where he can golf and hunt
and sit out of doors in the sun with
out discomfort. He will enjoy the
best of New York September
weather. II he Graves real sum
mer, he must keep on southwark to
Palm Beach or some of the other
far south resorts where he can
battle in the surf and blister his
skin just Gs he did at home a few
months before.
The south affords an amazing va
riety Of accommodations and social
environments, too. The most
elaborate plans of course are made
for the reception of the man and
woman who have money and who
want to spend it conspicuously. The
sumptuousness. splendor and o.
tentation Of the southern resort
hotels becomes more impressive
every year. But there are also
places for the guest of smaller
means or more modest taste. From
the Carolinas south there are num-
erous hunting resorts where one
can enjoy southern cooking, hospi-
tally, sunshine, and sport without
climbing into q dress suit every
evening and without spending
more than a few dollars a day.
1t would be an oversight not to
mention the migrants who move
southwark by water. They certainly
experience the most gradual and
delightful transition from winter to
summer, 'as the sea changes from
gray to vivid blue, and 'the uni
forms of the ships officers from
blue to white. The West Indies are
just beginning to come into their
own as wintering territory. Cuba
of course, has long been famous
But people are just beginning to GO
to Porto Rico, and it is just begin
ming to offer them the comfort
which the American tourist re-
quires.
If he would not be quite so in
sistent on luxury he would enjoy
a good deal more in the way of cd
venture and variety. SantO Domjn-
go, for example, is not accustomed
but it can offer him UNEMPLOYED
jungles and rivers, wonderful
scenery, Bome Of which has never
been seen by White men. and hunt.
ing Of an exotic sort-such as fol
wild guinea fowl and orchids.
Our newly acquired Virgin is
lands also offer some interesting
days to the man with an eye fol
the unusual and the new. None Of
these places will furnish you witt
q room and bath in the American
sense. But In any Of they you car
find q clean bed and good folk art
folk who are vastly more tolerant
of your peculiarities than you are
OF theirs.