. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . nd cloud on moun-tain top and in valley, the weird and enchanting moonlight pic-tures, and the harmonious, enlivening and wholesome sociallife of the hotels and summer colonies together form such amagnetic combination that one learns without surprise thatthere are regular visitors to the Mountains who have beenspending their summers there continuously for thirty and fortyyears. In the White Mountains to-day every highway, be it ofsteel or earth, leads, directly or indirectly, toward Mt. Wash-ington. This is the


. The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground . nd cloud on moun-tain top and in valley, the weird and enchanting moonlight pic-tures, and the harmonious, enlivening and wholesome sociallife of the hotels and summer colonies together form such amagnetic combination that one learns without surprise thatthere are regular visitors to the Mountains who have beenspending their summers there continuously for thirty and fortyyears. In the White Mountains to-day every highway, be it ofsteel or earth, leads, directly or indirectly, toward Mt. Wash-ington. This is the Mt. Blanc of the New England Switzer-land, the hub of the vacation system. It is entirely fitting toenter upon a brief consideration of the White Mountains andtheir summer joys by utilizing Mt. Washington as the starting-point, for if one does not start from there, he is sure toeventually reach there. It is because of this fact that Mt. Washington is the axisof the Mountains that Bretton Woods has come into existenceas the chief resort of wealth and fashion in the region. It is. MOUNT LAFAYETTE AND FRANCONIA NOTCH


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