New Britain herald., 1925-07-08
HOW THE WORLD
 TAKES VACATIONS
Old Civilization Used to Do
 Same Thing

fiiHVIH VI AilcIltdHs lthNS Ipi three days, three weeks, or three months al the beach or the lakes. on the farm or in the mountains. they are hitting an age-od trail, says bulletin Of the National Geo. graphic society, rom its headquar- ters at Washington, D, C.
 'Iapps Of Lapland and the Bakh- tiari of West Persia take the vaca- ton trail to q cool summer climate and IL is called 8 migration because they have 10 go, The Athenian gen tleman went to Olympia and called his recreation interval the Olympic games, In China and India popular thought satisfies the vacation i'm pulse by religious pilgrimages. Japan and Germany are not yet en- tirely accustomed to pleasure for pleasures sake so their sons and daughters go to health springs, bads,' or spas, but it Is vacation nevertheless. The Occident alone is intellectually honest in rewarding the human desire for change of scenes, a change of climate and re- lief from duty.
 Excursions to Ancient Olympic
 Games
 Olympic games of ancient Greece were probably the first vacation e1- cursions. Before their organization, 800 years before the birth of Christ, travelling WAS risky. The mountains might invite in summer, but If 8 man loved life he stayed in his own little kingdom though he cooked and boiled and baked in the sun. In Greece, for one month following the first full moon after June 21, every four years, general peace proclamation went out through the states of Greece permitting con- testants and hordes of excursionists to go safely to the beautiful vale of Olympia. The Assyrian kings got around the vacation problem with out leaving Babylon; they built the famous hanging gardens which sup piled the charms of cool, moist air under verdant foliage.
 Rome marked it's conquests not with lead plates or fagpoles, but bath houses. Many of the innumer- able health springs of Europe. gathering places for multitudes to cure disease and to enjoy rest or sport, boast Of Roman origin at the hands of the amphibian legion naires. The site of Bath in England attracted one Of the largest Roman settlements by it's famous springs, Bad in German means health springs and towns with bad before or after the names are almost 5 frequent as Main streets in Amer ica. There is Baden. Austria, the noted watering place of the Flen- nese -- rich and poor. There Is Baden, Switzerland, and the princi- pality of Baden, Germany The lat ter alone contains the health sprlng wns BadenWeller, Antogast, Grtesbaeh, Friersbach, culminatlng in Baden Baden, thus named in an effort to distinguish it from the other bads' The word spa, for health spring resort has its origin in the Belgium town Spa. once the most famous in Europe.
 Spa Superseded by Modern Resorts
 "The Prince Of Wales goes in for out door life on a Canadian ranch, and the king Of Spain summers at San Sebastian, the Spanish counter part to Biarrit2, whereas Peter the Great of Russia and monarchs of Austria and Sweden soaked Tn and drank chemically scented water in Spa King George Of England goes to the Riviera for vacation, but his ancestral namesakes went to the purhphouse of Bath.
 In the mills west of Picking are the ruins of one of the most beau tiful summer resorts the world has seen, the summer palace of Man ehu emperors The Jade fountain, fine large spring, has been the site of summer palaces for Chinese soV- ereigns since the 10th century, But the most beautiful was that built by the poet emperor in 1861. Jesuit priests described to him the beau ties of Versailles palace and he wove some of the designs into hls own plans. A Jesuit supervised the development of the palace enclosure. Here the emperor took his ease on a royal barge floating on sapphire lake in the midst of which rose an artificial mountain girded with mar be bastions.
 Japanese NaCationists Climb Tuti
 In reprisal for the torture of cartives, the British troops sacked the summer palace, in 1880, burned it's buildings to the ground and leveled the pagodas, Today the grass buries broken fragments of grandeur and only some fine bridges and q bronze temple remain as re- minders of the palace that lost it's soul. Nearby the dowager em- press later built herself a summer home with S50,0o0,00 which should have paid for a navy to defend China from Japan, The only boat that China got was the marble barge on the sapphire lake which has a htdeous wooden cabin whrre tourists may now buy lukewarm beer.
 Climbing FuJiyama Is the cher lshed Japanese idea of vacation, Although the numerous hot springs of the nation attract thousands an nualiv. Mount Fuji is their mecca. Every true Japanese expects to rnmh it once in his life time, II is sacred 10 both Shinto and Buddhist heNAyers, to ths former it is the beauttul goddess causing flowers 10 bloom brightly 10 the latter it IS tha folded bud of the sacred lotus.
 Expenses Pail by Lottery
 The desire to climb the perfect snow-white cone of Fuli has given rise 10 vacation lotteries throughout