Show ion AN I 1 ALM S ik 4 1 ml I 1 bizarre float in the carnival at nice prepared by the national society washington D C LIEN millions of americans WHEN leabu for three days three weeks or three months at the beach or the lakes lake on the tha farin or la in the mountains ns t they b cy are hitting an age old trall laps of lapland and the otiest persia take the vacation trail to a cool summer climate and it Is called a migration because they have to go the Athe athenian ninn gentleman went to olympia and called hla his recreation interval the olympic games in china and india popular thought satisfies the ja la catlon cation impulse by religious pilgrimages some people not yet entirely accustomed to pleasure tor for pleasures pleasure sake ealce go to health springs ha da or spas but it Is a vacation nevertheless and a salutary one olympic games of ancient greece were probably the first vacation excursions cur before their organization years before the birth of christ traveling was risky the mountains mountain might invite in summer hut but if a ninn man loved life lie he stayed in his own little kingdom though he cooked and boiled and baked in the sun in greece for one month following the clr t full moon after june 21 every tour four years a general pence peace proclamation went out through the states of greece permitting contest contestants tints nod and hordes of ex to go safely to the beautiful vale of olympia Olymp la rome home marked its conquests not with lead plates or flagpoles but bath houses tinny many of the innumerable health springs of europe gathering places for multitudes for the cure of disease and the enjoyment of rest or sport boast of roman origin at the hands of thi th amphibian legionnaires the site of bath in england attracted one of the largest roman settlements by its famous springs cad bad in gernian german means bath and towns with bad before or after the names are almost as frequent ns as main alain streets in america this word ipa for health spring resort has its origin in the belgian town spa once the most famous in europe 1 I 1 resorts of Ry royalty alty the prince of wales goes in for outdoor life on a canadian ranch the king of spain summers at son san sebastian the spanish counterpart to blarr ritz whereas peter pete the ahe great of russia and monarchs monar cbs of austria and sweden soaked in and drank chemi cally scented water in spa king george of england goes to the seashore or to the scottish moors for a vacation but his ancestral namesakes went to the pump house of bath i in the hills bills west of peking are the ruins of one of the most beautiful summer resorts the world has seen tho the summer palace of manchu emperors the jade fountain a fine large spring hns baa been the site ot sum nier mer palaces palace for chinese sovereigns since the tenth century but the roost most beautiful was that built by ho poet emperor in 1661 jesuit described to him the beauties of V ver 1 er sallies palace nud and he wove some of the designs into his own plans A jesuit supervised the development of the palace enclosure here the emperor took his ease on a royal barge floating on a sapphire nice lake in the midst of which rose an artificial mountain girded with marble bastions Is 3 the cherished japanese idea of a V vacation although the numerous hot springs of the nation attract thousands annually mount fuji la is their mecca every true japanese expects to climb it orce in his lifetime it Js la sacred to both shinto ani ane buddhist believers to the former it Is the beautiful goddess causing flowers to bloom brightly to the latter fatter it Is the folded bud of the sacred lotus ictus lucky are the mohammedan pilgrims all bound tor for mecca alecca when their shifting calendar brings tho the holiest hollest time lwe tor for tills this journia into the sp spring ring for that Is the most delightful season lu in the desert playgrounds Playa roUnda by the sea each nation has its atlantic city Ieru vlana go down to barrones barranca on the pacific the french in algeria go to in the hills nack back from the mediterranean athens listens to french operettas ope in Plin leron on the bay where galleys of ancient athens athena were sheltered egyptians desert the muddy nile for rafleh ramleh a few miles from alexandria and on the edge of the deltas tan the aldu an island near venice Is the famous obeah ocean resort of italy and the enst east shore of the battle baltic Is one vast bathing beach during the brief summer which that regon region enjoys one of the best known of the worlds playgrounds Is the ItI vIera that sun drenched shore of the mediterranean where france and italy meet nice chief town of the riviera Is often caviled cavilee at as too boisterous too crowded but it continues despite all that to be the capital of Eu Nu ropes winter playground cannes draws to its villas and hotels those rhose of quieter tastes mentone lures lure its invalids while all the lie other scores of resorts along this sun bathed mediterranean coast draw to themselves appropriate groups ot of those in search of pleasure rest or health but nice Is tt tho meeting place for all as well as the place of temporary residence for thousands who find tills this bustling city and well equipped resort ro bcd lcd into one exactly to their liking nices gaiety rises in crescendo to the carnival which takes place just before the beginning of lent each spring tills this more or less historic celebration eb a type for numerous festivals around the world began as a modest fiesta many years yeara ago rt it became an organized celebration in 1371 and has drawn increasing crowds since it must be admitted too that it has grown in there are aulet loving souls who leave nice for the carnival just as there are those who flock there for it the celebration centers nebout the battle 0 ot I 1 flo flowers in the promenade des anglaia anglais Ang Angl lais als there are pir parades rides that feature the ludicrous as well as the beautiful and the inevitable dominos masques street songs street dances horns and con kottl many english in nice there Is a considerable english colony at nice it dates back many years as one might surmise when he ha learns learna that the Os promenade des an geals glais has borne its name since 1821 some of the earliest of the seekers of winter sunshine from the british wes isles were in the modest riviera town that year when an unusual cold snap ruined the orange crop they clubbed together and gave the unemployed natives work by building a road along the seashore sen shore the promenade des an geals glais A wag has said that this roadway was built by the unemployed and has been used by the unemployed ever since the chief boulevard and shopping street in nice Is the avenue de la in Victo victoire lre with its smart shops and smartly dressed shoppers it Is a typical parisian boulevard in miniature form new nice with its wide streets and bright buildings has grown 0 o over ver a large area almost obscuring old nice one finds the old ta town wn in a seemingly compressed quarter across a little torrent from the newer city between the stream ani and a buff like ilke promontory castle ellal which was the acropolis of the earliest settlement on one side of the stream are narrow crooked streets houses centuries old and here and there ruined palaces it Is a medieval tooting looking pil pl aca but ts Is inhabited by thoroughly modern mechanics chantes cs tram drivers and other less opulent inhabitants of the city oa 0 the other side of the stream ties lies tho new city with tta its avenues and prom esades theaters and casinos aw sweeping beep up hill inland to a zone of at betels hc tela palaces and ana villas |