Miscellaneous Idling.

VACATIONS; RECREATION; COUNTRY life; TRAVEL; TOURISM; RAILROADS

There must be a considerable number of elderly city gentlemen of no well-defined occupation who, when summer time comes around, find themselves, like the present writer, under the painful necessity of enjoying a brief vacation in the country. Men of this class would much prefer to remain in town and pursue undisturbed that half-busy idleness which so well agrees with their constitution, but no, an anxious relative persuades them that what they need is change, with complete rest; so they pack their trunk, with a sigh, and go to the mountains. The region is undeniably beautiful. Its charms unfold themselves, in varying outlines, to the gazing traveler, as the automobile that awaited him at the sleepy railway station takes him swiftly to the end of his journey.