. Outdoors in New England . therefore, is a Switzerland, a Homburgand a Riviera combined, and a magnified Black Forest aswell. Well may the poet exclaim that it is a place where thesoul forgets its petty cares and ills. It is a region where the eye of the invalid grows brighter,the step of the tired business man more elastic, the cheeksof the child rosier, and where the inspiration of the literaryworker soars higher. There is enjoyment and comfort andrenewed health for all ages and all conditions in glorious,free and untrammeled New England. Moreover, in the calendar of its outdoor activities
. Outdoors in New England . therefore, is a Switzerland, a Homburgand a Riviera combined, and a magnified Black Forest aswell. Well may the poet exclaim that it is a place where thesoul forgets its petty cares and ills. It is a region where the eye of the invalid grows brighter,the step of the tired business man more elastic, the cheeksof the child rosier, and where the inspiration of the literaryworker soars higher. There is enjoyment and comfort andrenewed health for all ages and all conditions in glorious,free and untrammeled New England. Moreover, in the calendar of its outdoor activities andenjoyments there is practically no respite, for New Englanditself takes no vacation. There are times during the yearwhen one would not care to take a pleasure trip to Florida,or even to Southern California, but with New England it isdifferent. It keeps open house throughout the four seasons,even in midwinter. The vacation season in this delectable land of all out-doors may be said to commence with the flowing of the sap. Headquarters of the Dont Worry Club in the maple sugar orchards of Vermont and New Hampshire,in March. Sugaring-off parties are then the order of the day,and these early-spring festivities are enjoyed by hundreds ofyoung and middle-aged people from the cities and large towns,with the snow yet deep upon the ground. Vermont alone produces more than $3,000,000 worthof this popular saccharine product every year, so that maple-sugar making has a very important commercial side, as wellas an interesting sentimental phase. The industry antedateseven the advent of the white settlers in this country, for theIndians before them knew the art of tapping the maple treesand converting the sap into sugar and syrup. From this period until the advent of autumn, with its
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