Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-09
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Birds Who Want to Get Out Of the
caees Of Environment May TwIt.
ter Briefly on the Coast for
y a Thousand Bucks
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE

! CITY on the East, and Harrisburg on the
| West, and Baltimore on the South and
| Scranton on the North what thought there
was In travelling anyway. And supposing
l had only two weeks and half at the
| most to spare, where would Igo and what
time OF year would I choose to 60 in, sup
| posing there was enough money in the bank
to go off with a pal and travel de luxe for
that length of time.
Well, / was as quick MS a hair trigger
with my answers because l really had some
| thoughts and some experience in the matter
of short holiday, and / know as we'll as
any one what is to be got out of travel in
the way Of mental stimulus IL your body
does not get fatigued in keeping up with
| your mind or your mind does not sag into
spinelessness from a too relaxed body.
would say that contrast was the great
thing you were after in travel, a contrast
| from your every day experience. And you
| can get that better and more dramatically
| by going from winter to spring in a single
| day or in the course of two days than in
| any way j know.
TT YOU belong to n big manufacturing
city such as this, and to farming State
| such as Pennsylvania, to go through coun-
| try OF deserts into country of intensive
gardening such as California is TO give your
self another dramatic contrast. OF course,
| California Is not so exciting as Italy, just
ms Florida is not even in It's CXuberant
winter colony spots as we'll done and theat-
| rical as the Italian Riviera or the Italian
lakes or Algicrs or the French Cornell from
| Cannes to Monte Carlo; but the value of
| California to u Philadelphian is that it is
American, and there is the reward of great
| labor and great desire In Il, and its flowers
and fruits as well as its roads and hotels
| are the results of all the busy, wistful quest
ing that Americans have Travelled the world
over to divert themselves with. 1t is what
| the Centennial was, what the Worlds Fair
was to their makers and visitors. So far
as may be. they have made a Garden Of Eden
on the rocky slopes of Il sea as blue rs the
Mediterranean, and they have driven back
the desert mile by mile by making it blossom,
as the rose. 4 so that there Is a sense Of
clation and proud sense of possession and
| achievement to an American who goes UP
and down the roads of California that he
| lacks when he travels In Europe.
THEN, too, for short journey there. is
l. just enough history, just enough an
cicntncss and foreignncss about the Crumbling
mission buildings from Texas TO San Fran
cisco to make one cudgcl one S memory Tor
old, half forgotten tales of Spain. And it
the route lies through the South 20 New
Orleans and along the Mexican border past
san Antonio and El Paso into the great
Salton desert that was once Il sea, one gets
as much foreignness of French and Spanish
and Mexican sort IN three days as. he can
cram himself with by just walking the
streets between train times. IL the route
back from the Pacific Coast is along the
Sante Fc, from tho train windows you can
sec more of wild, semi civilized country
than most travellers TO Europe were able to
get in the highways and byways OF the
continent open to the tourist. And If you
| read all the little local papers as you
| find them, and buy the things the Mexicans
and Indians and Chinese and American
| painters and curio collectors have gathered
to tempt You with on the car steps and i'll
the hotels and in the foreign quarters, aud
if wherever YOU stop you drive on the break
neck roads around the sharp curves with the
men who used to drive the overland stages
| YOU can pick up enough sensations and ten
dcrfoot tales to make you feel like forty
| miner And If you stop over and see the
| Grand Canyon on your way home through
| the desert you have seen greater sight than
| any in Europe in the canyon and desert
more mysterious and beautiful than any III
| Africa.
| TETTINCi back TO Chicago through Kan
| " sas City is very tame after all this, but
| it Is we'll 10 see Chicago, and whichever way
| you enter Pennsylvania you are proud ana
| glad 10 have been born in It and you settle
| down comfortably 20 enjoy its easy, gracious
| contours as though you were settling down
| TO enjoy your easy chair and slippers ami
! warm fire NJ home. .
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