Evening star., 1939-04-23

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Sunday, Washington railroads will
raise their ticket shutters on q wide
variety Of special rates. There Will
be one-day rates. Sunday rates,
every-other- Sunday rates, 30-day
rates and regular daily rates, to
mention & few of the tariffs the
Pennsylvania and the Baltimore e.
Ohio Railroads have worked out for
fair and -fare-minded travellers. But
one of the most fascinating trips
Of June % until the dawn heralds
the news that summer has come in.
And they really dance. with minis
terial- looking coat tails flying and
lady partners whirled clear Of the
ground. These folks who are happy
with simple, homely things can make
travellers forget the mechanical and
artificial nightmares We have sum.
moned up by superior" civilization
to haunt our nights and days.
Summertime travellers in Scandi-
navia find something finer there
than fjords and glaciers and the
midnight sun. The backdrop viewed
by strangers sojourning in the two
Viking peninsulas Is magnificent; I
think there is probably nothing in
the world so usually inspiring as the
marriage of the sea and mountains
along the coast of Norway The
whole Scandinavian region has
splendid summer climate.
But everyone who has toured
through foreign lands knows that
the real delight and recreation In
travel comes from little daily con-
facts with the life and people Of q
country. Visiting a nation Is some
thing like being entertained in. q
home-the folks are at least as i'm
portant Is the draperies and the
rugs.
Hospitable People.
The Norwegians are about the
most Independent people today. and
their long history Is one Of q stub
born clinging to personal liberty. No
one will be subservient to tourists in
Norway, but also no one has any idea
of prof1teering on the guests. It is
assumed that visitors are there to
enjoy the scenery and out-of-door
life that the natives themselves love,
and they are made welcome with
that brand Of hospitality which calls
for Norwegian peasant to provide
wayfarer with q comfortable bed
while he himself sleeps on the floor
II necessary.
The cities and farms In Norway
are so bright and clean and we'll
built and well tended that one
knows the inhabitants are an in
dustrious and hard-working people
who wrest a living from a rugged
land and the sea. Yet they are also
a pleasure-loving folk who seem to
have plenty of leisure to play. The
whole atmosphere of social life in
either Oslo or the fishing villages
or among the little farms that
nestle In valleys or cling to mountain
sides Is one exactly suited to be
soothing to American travellers of
this period. This peacefulness and
sanity and simplicity. Is well Is the
setting Of natural beauty is COM
mon to all three Of the scandina-
Wan countries.
Norways lakes, streams and fjords
are to trout and salmon anglers
what the waters of the Florida
keys and around Nassau are to the
big fishermen. It Is land Of
Homeric sea life. In Lake Mjosa,
20 to Is pound trout are caught
every summer, and the record there
is monster OF % pounds.
Along the Norwegian coast from
the Swedish border on the Skager-
rak to where the country touches
Finland inside the Arctic Circle,
there are some 200 rivers up which
salmon run. The jump from sea-
shore to the mountain plateau is so
abrupt that the lower waters of
these streams are full of rapids and
falls, and make the worlds happy
hunting ground for fly fishermen
who specialize in taking the big red
fish.
/ Long Known to British.
American tourists have failed to
appreciate the magnificent sports
fishing in Norway until very re-
Gently. but British devotees of ang-
ling long have regarded Norway
as the supreme salmon country.
They resorted to 1t for many years
long before the Scandinavian penin-
sulas became world-famous as a
summer travel region.
1t isn't necessary to transport
ones tackle across the ocean, as
Norwegian shops carry the right
kinds of rods. lines and flies for
the different forms Of native fish,
ing at reasonable prices. Some of
the river territory is closed by leases
to clubs or to individuals of differ
ent nations, but there are good
streams everywhere accessible to
tourists, and at different times first
class beats" on all the rivers are
open. Usually hotels own some
rights available to guests free or
for a nominal fee. The whole
SAo11CNI VI Inc game Is 30 1Icc
from restrictions and the snow-fed
clear, stumbling brooks and
rivers are so little exploited that
the setup appeals to Americans
from our larger cities as being some
thing approaching paradise.
The legal fishing season is from
April Il to August rs; but fly fishing
IN the streams is permitted until
September S. In back of the coastal
areas the innumerable brooks, wa
terways and lakes all the way
across both Norway and Sweden
are filled with brook trout.
STEAMSHIPS.
An ENTIRE SUMMER OF LID oay|
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