The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-13
Next to Really Making Them,
Planning Them Is Fun.
PLENTY OF LITERATURE
Can Be Had for the Asking
Read It and Weep!
Spring Time Brings Thoughts
of Worldwide Wandering.
BY WALT MARKLEY.

| and the scent of flowers is borne on
| the breeze, the old office desk and the
/ shop bench and the dry goods coun-
ter grow hateful to the eye They are
| symbols of long, tiresome hours OF
| work: of vicious battles won and lost
\ 81 a. nation enslaved by the chains OF
The old lust for commercial vic
tories and power is gomez the attrac-
\ ton OF financial gain is weakened and
that glorious exultation that follows
upon the heels of accomplishment Is
deadened. Louder than all these
| voices calling to work and 10 pattie
| come the voices of the open; of the
quiet woods and murmuFlng streams;
/ Of the roaring ocean; Of mountain
SHOWS and dreamy tropic nights. It's
all a part OF the season-its vacation
The Few-And the Majority.
Planning of trips to all parts of the
world during the vacation months is
now in order True, most folks will
/ actually spend their vacations at home
but it doesn't cost anything to plan.
A few Topekans. of course, will &C
tuaIly visit Europe, or Bermuda, or
South America, and others will go to
the mountains or the seashore, but the
majority will be content with buying
five gallons of gasoline and few
yards OF fishing line and seeking sport
in some of the muddy streams sef
tennis court that their chief amuse-
ment will be found. But nevertheless,
when the DAYS work is over and the
garden hoed and the porch swing is
put into use there is something re-
freshing in planning a trip to Iceland
or the Orient even tho one knows it
will never be realized
From the information division of
the United States shipping board,
Washington, d. C., can be obtained a
. r ~EnN L.
contemplating a tour. Many steam
ship lines are conducting tours with
government owned ships. There. are
now few corners of the world that one
cannot visit on the regularly con-
Quoted tours of some steamship COM
pany.
Brazirs Tooth Birthday.
For example, the Munson lines OF
New York have arranged tours of
South America on government-owned
ships of the latest oil burning type.
One of the features will be BFaEffs
celebration in September of the 1e0th
anniversary of the birth of the re-
public. Here the nations of the world
will be entertained and on the heights
surrounding the beautiful harbor
Britain, France, Belgium, the United
States and other governments. The
rates to South America have been re-
duced.
Then there is Manila, the Pearl
Of the Orient set among islands elo-
quent of ancient Spanish and modern
American history, bathed in all the
exotic languor of the South Pacific
and teeming with a. population drawn
from every quarter of the globe. And
beyond that are Japan, China, Java,
singapore and Burma, the SueZ canal,
Egypt Palestine, the Mediterranean
and-Europe.
Those who visit Europe will of
course visit Switzerland, and that
means Geneva, the ancient university
town. occupying a delightful position,
commanding the loveliest views of lake
and Notwithstanding the whole
of Mont Blanc-and enjoying an
agreeable climate turnout the year.
Here will be held the international
Gordon Bennett balloon race in Au-
gust.
And there are Naples, and Rome
and Venice and Milan and Florence.
where the armies of ancient nations
locked in death struggles a thousand
years before America was dreamed of.
Then the battlefields of France and
Belgium, and ultimately DeFdogne,
with its prehistoric cave dwellings;
Brittany, with it's Druid remains;
Domremy, where Joan of Arc lived,
Saint Odile with its ancient monas-
teries and Alsace with its beauteous
castles.
One might also consider a trip to
Norway, the land of fjerds and the
midnight sun, later, motor trips thru
See America First
But perhaps closer Within the reach
or Tepekans will be the American
tours, and particularly those thru Can
ada. At Chateau Frontenac. Quebec
IS Americas strangest contrast. Twist
ing. turning, balconied streets, a pat
terlng OF French tongues a. country
side as primitive as Normandy. and
u. Anna-de Beaupre, where pilgrims
PROSTATE themselves in ancient ritual
mat is the seventeenth century
French side of it. But. on a cliff
high above streets and the st law
renee a huge. turreted chateau: a
ToInenade alive with fashionable peo-
pie: Broadway dance music. smart
motors and golfers making UP four
America
In Nova Scotia comes the thrill OF
Lhe Whirring reel. the taut shiunmerinr
me and the struggle of the rovaI
1ailheh or trout Back south. on Long
1sland- one travels a thousand miles
OF perfect concrete roads ta fhe fam
Gus Rockaway PENINSULA: to Long
1oeaeh' NeW Nork's great playground:
% tne Great South Bay resorts: the
{ N .l-uIla PIE tamptons: the beautiful
nils: to quaint old Sag
haroor; Easthampton, the birfhnlace
OF the author OF Home Sweet Home .
ana ana on to Montauk, the end of the
some will go to Breton Woods. mr.
: I4heonla IN the White mountains Of
= eW hampshire. or to Magn Ola. over
looking Massachusetts bay. And 9th
- - VI" vii seek relaxation in Washington
ana oregon, or California. r FLORIDA
q arizona One might go on forever
naming summer resorts and eIaborat
lns on tours in every part OF the globe
II would take Lifetime and cost
/, : laHse fortune to visit all those places
but after all=planninR doesn't cest
anything. ~09'
The Simpler Life.
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