Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-12-04
WINTERING IN VERMONT

wINTERING IN VERMONT
You read of various people going from
Vermont and other northern regions to
Florida or to California to spend the
winter. This Ia natural, because the
movements Of people are part of the
news Of the day. You do not read, how
warmer cline for the winter months, but
who this winter will remain in Vermont.
This is fully as important news, as the
record Of those who go, especially when
you consider the chief reason assigned
for a determination to spend the winter
in Vermont
We have talked personally with some
of those who will change their former
program by wintering in Vermont, and
1t is as interesting as it will be helpful
for those who can not get away for
business or family reasons to catch some
thing of their spirit; it will add material
ly to the sum total Of our contentment
which we suspect comes near to the true
secret of happiness for life devoted to
service for humanity.
Every climate is found to have its
drawbacks. You may be warmer sur
rounded by several feet of snow, but with
cracking fire in the stove or other heat
ing apparatus than you would be in a
warmer climate where no preparation has
been made in the way of stoves for the
cold waves that seem to be sweeping over
southern winter resorts more and more
You may be more comfortable and
healthy than you would be in a climate
where you are forced to keep out of the
fierce rays of the sun at midday, but
where at night you need to wear furs to
keep out the damp chill that prevades the
whole region.
We are told that too much of Joy is sor.
rowful. To perpetrate a parallel, tc
much of rest is tiresome. This IL
especially true Of the red-blooded man
who does not enjoy sitting round fol
several months trying to amuse himself
The idle rich" or the invalid class may
find relief in a change. but for people who
are busy from habit too much no,
weather is enervating. When you stor
Ing difference between the energetic
people of the temperate zones and the
slothful classes of the equatorial region
Various other factors also enter into
this "wintering" problem. A Connection
contemporary tells of a man and his wifi,
who went to one Of the most beautiful
islands in the Caribbean seven years age
to spend the twilight of their lives in tn,
serene beauty of the tropics. 1t was
place which the husband, a seafarint
man, had chosen as the nearest approach
to terrestrial Paradise for those wht
have enough money to live without work
ing hard.
The couple landed in New York tn,
other day with their Lares and Penate
and a parrot. The ideal season is jus
about to begin In the Caribbean, but Il
will start and continue without thi
particular pair of humans. 1--WE want al
old fashioned New England winter" sale
the wife. The husband was NOR
specific: 1T was great for a while, blu
finally it got too dodblasted beautiful
We are going back to Connecticut to Sc
some rocks and barren fields"
These are among some of the reason
why so many people who formerly wen
west or south for the winter are nov
spending the winter in Vermont. with al
the enjoyments which this involves 70
both old and young.
We are not saying that people Shout
not visit California or Florida for tn
winter, Such an experience is part of tn
education. Having spent the winter i
warmer climate, you will naturally b
drawn back to the scene OF perpetus
absence Of ice. snow, with the occasions
advent of snow like that just reporte
from Los Angeles. If you dress properi
and adequately for cold weather, however
there are joys in the Green Mountai
region in winter that the equatoria
inhabitant knows not Of
It would be difficult for genuine red
checked Vermont boys to picture a regio
where there are never snow forts to b
stormed and defended by opposin
armies, where there are no skating o.
genuine ice, no coasting. no tobogganin
no skiing, no ice"boating. no now-shoe