The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-10

Vacation days are happy days. Or are they? Do they at the final closing and locking ol oasS door and house. When the vacation place ot your choice reached does the nn cabin boardnghouse ooa or tent up to expectations Does your ar rival digging in and table seating add up to your Vsua zatons say of the December previous when you started Tn early to pick vacation spot for the next Summer
 Vacation days! Does your room have the described view? Or is the view confined to dead end lane on one side and tooclose side of the house next door, Are fhe window screens missing. and is the de- scrbed as lofty little bit close to the slantlng roo But you do have two windows, don't you! And the room clerk will point this out at first complaint.
 August in the country What spectacle! High hills surround you On clear day you wish you were ot literary stature instead of just fall guy Clear snarpy etched and all that. Words cannot describe morning III the Green Mountains when the sun bright and the ar like wine, at least dry ginger ale But comes mean. murky miserable rainy morning, the mountains sor! o Interesting in the early morning haze, but by night IS seasonal backout what unseen mountains can De- come After several days of this though you have be- come acquainted with all the housecontned guests nave talked with them drank with them ate with them, and trumped their Then what to do!
 Here's to glad vacation. And there's nothing like few weeks a the shore when you have housetul of children from three years to sixteen all bent on dong what they want, when they want In Decemoer e "nen Christmas was getting down. sald-0h, dennlte- N cottage at the shore for few weeks Is the tnlhg for family like you were smart and signed up early, and said you would look over the snaek oe,oas Winter was over. but you didn't The cottage Was bought and paid for. anyway for the month ot August the wild waves just waiting to give equally Wild time a few months hence.
 Come August youu viewpoint has changed a olt' especially since twelve and fourteen yearolds m the 1a iI are camp-mnded but that would cost los extra under the circumstances Some of your closest friends have been smart, oo but not in cottage picking They have signed for trips to the Paehc Coast ana rel itinerary includes everything enroue the Grand Canyon of Arizona Chicago, California part ot lt the Canadlah Rockies with stop-off even at Duluth and Minneapolis So as you pack much into the doubtful eep the shofe tn have week of it. when leaking roof rain, mosquitoes noslef neighbors than your own personnel and bad plumbing make wish for the sight of the far away Rockies or even the hills of home.
 Vacation time. You always wanted boat trip In fact A, and deck to you were alphabetical musts and you said while enjoy it. I'm going to take boat trip But you put it off. and then the war came and boats were otherwise engaged So last January you said. next Summer I'm going to Bermuda or Can ada somewhere, drown And you almost dd drown because the trip to Bermuda was roughlsh and the boat too large and still bearing the marks of heavy service after the second day out you were ready to skip what to come of ocean pleasure, Marine gardens and drives the beautiful ls- lands called the Bermudas, and all that but couldn't skip it. because there only to get there and back the kind of ticket you had bought With your boat trip complete wash-up in ways than one, and August not half you just waiting the day when you live normally again in the home town and bus it every day to work.
 Vacation time! Happest days of the year, maybe. There different schools of opinion Your ticket agent at the local railroad station WlndoW mas hepea you H measuraby in deciding lines, uppers, lowers dates and stopovers Your local tourist agencies have also guided you the proper approach to the great northwest to Canada and the islands Your old 35 has carried over many rough detour. You have struck out for mountains, lakes, shore places, and widernesses You have done your best to be vacation minded but the season advances you find things seldom what they seem you decide very suddenly that after atheres no place like home, even in August
 Lake Quassapaug still draws the crowds the as it did in mothers and grandmothers day There's not much difference in the layout. The lake has the same appearance and the surroundings the with just few hundred more cottages and quite few private docks can still buy ice there and root beer