. Quaint Cape Cod and its summer delights . re of theseexcursions. Monomoy is the lean elbow of Cape Cod, formerly knownas Cape Mallebarre. Upon its sands the sea is always try-ing its white-edged teeth. For Monomoy is a shifting ridgeof dunes, loosely thrown together. As the swift currents go racing by, they are ever shearing off part of the land and adding it to the banks and shoals. Looking Toward HyannisYacht Club It is not the Cape Cod of song andstorv; it is no longer the nursery ofthe finest seamen the world has everseen or probably ever will see. The one thing that Cape Cod didbetter t
. Quaint Cape Cod and its summer delights . re of theseexcursions. Monomoy is the lean elbow of Cape Cod, formerly knownas Cape Mallebarre. Upon its sands the sea is always try-ing its white-edged teeth. For Monomoy is a shifting ridgeof dunes, loosely thrown together. As the swift currents go racing by, they are ever shearing off part of the land and adding it to the banks and shoals. Looking Toward HyannisYacht Club It is not the Cape Cod of song andstorv; it is no longer the nursery ofthe finest seamen the world has everseen or probably ever will see. The one thing that Cape Cod didbetter than anything else was to trainhardy seamen. Half a century ago, American sea-men were the pride of the few are left. Not all camefrom Cape Cod, but a good proportionof them did and wherever they troda deck they were a pattern and aguide for their shipmates. The seven seas know the wander-ings of the Cape Cod men. You willfind them in business all over theworld—sturdy, self-reliant, keen, andhonorable sailor-men. But the Cape. In September and October ofeach year, the Cape Codder gathersin his harvest from the cranberrybog. Cape Cod supplies the worldwith its best cranberries. The business of growing this fruithas transformed many hitherto worth-less bogs in this region into landworth $1,000 an acre and bogs make pictures of rare at-tractiveness at all seasons and partic-ularly at harvest time. Asparagus culture also brings in alarge income. The soil seems pecu-liarly adapted to this vegetable, andnow there is a large acreage on theCape and many Cape Cod folks havefound prosperity in sandy fields ir,de Aiiire ^ere formerly oj Day sideredof little worth. is no longer a school for sea captains, nor will it ever beagain. The old family names still remain in the districts they oncemade populous—the Howes, the Bakers, the Snows and theKelleys in one part of the Cape; the Searses, the Crowells, theNickersons in another and the Thachers,
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