The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-01
Lillian G.. Perkins
Signs of the Times

person CENT get away from this
subject Of vocational trips--summer
trips. As ono catches the great per-
spective of a city like Tulsa havinA(
a summer exodus every year. Its
people going north or west to cool
breezes where they scan snow-slad
peaks every day, fish for mountain
trout or hunt for large game. live
In tourists hotels that cater to the
moneyed clans OF America who love
fts sort of thing. or rough 1t in
Mountain hut where they get close
90 nature; others who go to coast
or lakeside resort where the water
Is the thing that satisfies with Its
ceaseless beating OF white-capped
waves on a long stretch OF beach
that loves the caresses OF the mighty
deep, and where the human heart
thrills with the mystery that comes
with the close touch of the great
open sea that has many stories to
tell: on the other hand, the greater
OI lHc buUiiHNl
60 to enjoy the surf bathing and
TO get close in touch with the people
from other climes that one aces each
day; the fashionables who show
<heir morning. noon and evening
tQggery, to say not a word OF tho
korgeous bathing suits on display.
Others leave home to go deep in
20 the heart of natures forestry
where people are not seen daily. one
Tulsa minister stated that he was
taking his family and going where
he would not see people. One cap
understand this in minister's lire.
He strives daily with the Holy Writ
and its teachings to reach people
He stands high above sea OF faces
every Sabbath and scans faces
faces. on the street every day In
the week. he sees people. He is
student of people and their faces
and there comes a time when the,
cry COMES from the physical peins
Of him to get far away from every
human being that will call to him.
30 that he may rest and take inWen.
tory OF himself and get reinforced
30 that he may get ready to 60 into
the field again.
Some love to devote vacationai
time to sightseeing and they scan
the different railway or motor
routes, hunting for that part or the
country where they have not neeh'
usually, Canada and the west claim
these for there is nothing ike the
Canadian Rockies and the peaut,e'
of Colorado, wyoming. and Cal-
fornia to fill ones being with nse
and admiration for North America.
The Gulf of Mexico resorts ana the
pleasures found there. are ior the
winter tourists. and those VINO havs
basked In the sunshine anu SUI
bathing at Palm Beach during
,,,,nter can tell you of this beaut-
ful tropical cline and what II OF.
tars n is boped that the time Will
come when Americans can go INTO
Mexico for sightseeing. When tnat
time does come, the wonderiui
country Of which we know so iittie'
will be unfolded and one VIII see
what nature has to offer and now
little appreciated it's vast areas nave
heen by its very own habitants.
The subject of summer vacations
and how the .ndividual likes 10
snend them, is O large and varied
one and is sufficiently copious TOT
much entertainment. One whose
love for the beautiful Is known ana
whose fastidious nature IL Always
apparent, says mo vacation IN 'ne
woods for me. Please take me In
=. luxurious motor far away where
khe cream of the country go anu
ensconse me in, the best hosiery
where every beck and call OF mine
will be answered. l never did IKE
all day picnics where the gnats and
other insects interfere with the
running pie and the smell or Vine-
gar from the overturned pickle DOT
tie Is on tho table cloth otherwise
ornate with crawling caterpillars,
Then another, 40, don't i ike TO
10 deep into the heart of the woods
where running water is near. or
high among the mountain peaks,
where the clouds seem close and
rusticate In a rude hut, sit on
SOAP box or a rude bench about a
rough table and eat broiled trout
have caught myself. and let every
other mouthful he OF corn pone
baked over a regular camp fire.
What Is better than smelling bacon
fried over a camp fire and CATCH a
Swhiff OF coffee being boiled along
Vide" So the story runs on and on
like the brook the English poet
laureate wrote about. The fact as
sures one that the whole world is
kin in many things primal, but In
the matter of summer vacations.
there 10 a variance.