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The popularity of summer travel increases every year. The desire if not the need of a vacation thrusts itself upon the overworked father and mother of a family, and the pale faces of school children demand for them a change of scene and air. From the great cities on the Atlantic coast every summer rush forth a host to find rest and repose in the hill country of New Hampshire.

For a change the people of New Hampshire demand a view of the great ocean and flock to the sea-shore. All along the New England coast our citizens have built cottages to which they resort in July and August with their families, and gain health and vigor for the ensuing year. However, all cannot afford to build cottages; many can ill spare the time save for a sniff of the salt air: