Show How low World Takes Its s Vacations 1 I a a Hit it Old Age-Old Trail Followed for Centuries In in All Climes Washington When millions o of Americans lea leave e for three days das three weeks or three months at the beach bead beador or the lak lakes s on the farm or In the mountains they are hitting an old age trail says a bulletin of the National Ge Geographic society from Its headquarters at Washington Lapps of Lapland and the Bakhtiari of ot West Persia take the vacation trail trall to a cool summer climate and It h Is called a migration because they have to go go The Athenian gentleman went Vent to OlympIa and called his recreation Interval the Olympic games In China and India popular thought satisfies the vacation Impulse b by religious pilgrim pilgrim- ages Japan and Germany are not yet entirely accustomed to pleasure for pleasures pleasure's sake so their sons and daughters daughters daugh daugh- go to health springs or spas but It Is a vacation less The Occident alone Is Intellectually intellectually Intellect Intellect- mIll honest in rewarding the human desire for a change of scenes a change of ot climate and rind relief from duty Ancient Olympic Games Olympic games of ancient Greece were probably the first vacation Before their organization years Jears before the birth of Christ traveling traveling traveling trav trav- eling was risky The mountains might invite ImIte In summer but If a man loved life Ufe he stayed In his own little king king- dom though he cooked and boiled and baked in the sun In Greece for one month following the first full moon after niter June 21 ever every four years a gen gei general genii eral peace proclamation went out through the time states of Greece permitting permitting permit permit- ting contestants ant and hordes horde of ot to go safely to the time beautiful vale of Olympia Olmpia The Assyrian kings got around the vacation problem without without without with with- out leaving Babylon they built the famous famous famous fa fa- hanging gardens which supplied the charms of cool moist air under verdant foliage Rome marked Its conquests not with lead plates or flagpoles but bath bath- houses Many of the Innumerable health springs spring of Europe gathering places for multitudes to cure disease and to enjoy rest or sport boast of Roman origin at lt the hands of ot the amphibian amphibian am um legionnaires The site of Bath In England attracted One of or the largest Roman Homan settlements by Its famous famous famous fa fa- springs Bad In German means health spring and towns with bad before before before be be- fore or after the names are almost as frequent as Main streets' streets In America There Is Baden Austria the noted WaterIng w place of the VI VIennese rIch rich annexe and poor There Timer Is Baden Switzerland and the of Baden GerGer Ger- Ger many Y The latter health alone contains the Spring towns 1 sr Badenweiler An- An Griesbach Fri ersbach culminating cul- cul In Baden Baden In thus named nn an effort to dIstinguish g It t from the other hads The word health spa for sprIng resort has hns Its o origin in the BelgIum town Spa once the most famous In Europe The Prince of ot Wales g goes In for outdoor life Ufe on a Canadian ranch and the kIng of Spain summers at nt San n Sen Se Se- se-I se bastian bastia n the Spanish counterpart to whereas Peter the 2 Great t of I Ru Russia and monarchs of Austria and Sweden soaked In and drank chemically chemical chemical- ly sc scented water In Spa Ian KIng g Geor George of ot England goes to the Riviera for a n vacation but his ancestral namesakes went to the of ot Bath In the hills west of Pekin Peking g gone are the ruins of one of the time most beautiful summer summer summer sum sum- mer resorts the world has hns seen the summer palace of Manchu emperors The Jade Fountain a fine large spring has been the time site of summer palaces for Chinese sovereigns since the Tenth Tenth century But But But- the most most beautiful ful was that built by the poet emperor in in 1601 Jesuit priests described to him the beauties of Versailles palace and antI he wove wo some of the designs into his Ills own plans A Jesuit supervised the time develop development of the palace sure Here the emperor took his ease on a royal barge barze floating nn on a o n e s rv b 00 u U ap- ap lake in the midst of which w rose rosean rosean rosean an artificial mountain girded with marble marble marble mar mar- ble bastions Japanese Climb Fuji In reprisal for the torture of ot captives captives cap cap- tives the British troops sacked the time summer palace In 1860 1560 burned its bull buildings dings to the ground and leveled the pagodas Today the grass buries broken fragments of grandeur and only some fine bridges es and a bronze temple rem remain In as ns reminders of the palace that lost ost its Us soul Near by the dowager empress later built herself a n summer summerhome summerhome summerhome home with which should ha have lave paid for a n navy to defend China from Japan The only boat that China got ot was the marble barge on the sapphire sapphire sap- sap lake which has a n hideous wooden cabin where tourists may now buy lukewarm beer Climbing Fujiyama Is the cherished Japanese Idea Iden of a vacation Al Al- hough the numerous hot springs of the he nation attract thousands annually Mount Fuji Is their mecca Every true Japanese e expects to climb It once in his ils life time It It Is sacred to both Shinto and Buddhist believers to tho former It is the beautiful goddess causing flowers to bloom brightly to the latter Jatter alter It Is ls the folded bud of the sacred Lotus Expenses Paid by Lottery The desire to climb the time perfect white snow-white cone of Fuji has hns given rise to vacation lotteries throughout Japan Tapan The lucky ticket gives gh-es Its holder hollier sufficient sufficient suf- suf funds to ascend the supreme altar and salute the sun as It turns the sea of cotton as the Japanese call the cloud roof Into a n fleece of gold All summer thousands of pilgrims staves In hand gowned In heavy clothing for forthe forthe the time low temperatures and wearing straw hats shaped like the cone of ot Fuji itself toll up the trail trall marked yellow against the black v volcanic sand sandby sandby sandby by discarded sandals Whether by accident or plan the most holy h ly time to Journey to Mecca coincides with the moat delightful season season season sea sea- son In the desert Spring In the ArabIan Arabian Arabian Ara Ara- bian desert com comes s after the winter rains In January and February Then the time waste of sand and rock Is cool green STeen for tor a brief time Dusty shrubs bearing all aU appearances of having been years dead suddenly burst Into new green Brilliant desert flowers blossom blossom blossom blos blos- som Into tinted meadows The wells are arc full with water that must last another another an an- other long dry year Camels once more acquire fat humps This Is the time when thousands of pilgrims take the long road to Mecca to satisfy religIous religious re re- duty and though they may not admit It to satisfy the wanderlust and the human desire to see new beauty Salt Water Bathing Lures AllEach All AllEach AllEach Each nation has Its A Atlantic City Peruvians go down to Barranca on the Pacific tile the French In Algeria go to In the hills back from the Mediterranean Athens listens to French operettas In on the bay where galleys pf pt ancient Athens were 00 shelter r e d 1 E t fl des c ert rt the thA u I muddy Nile for Ramleh a few miles mUes from Alexandria and on the edge of the deltas delta's fan Outcast religious sects used to find refuge In the heights of Lebanon mountains of north Palestine Now the remaining cedar groves offer I retreat for from the time hot pIn plains ins In India the British annually move their capital to Simla Simia In the hills The Time Lido an island near Venice Is the famous ocean resort of Italy and the east shore of the Baltic is one vast bathing beach during the brief summer Mount a sacred peak of ot China rising high above the Yangtze In yearly attracts thousands of pilgrims and now has an annual summer colony of American missionaries |