HOW TO ENJOY LIFE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2705, 8 January 1910, Page 6

HOW TO ENJOY LIFE.

CAMPING ON THE BEACH

(By “Sunburnt.”) Under what more ideal conditions could one live during this present summer heat than those of -camping out on the Haiti beach? Year by year, this extremely pleasant, healthy, and economical mode of spending a summer vacation is coming more into favor, and now no less than 150 people have their abode where the soft, sea breezes and the tempered rays of the.sun help to make life bearable, noy, more, pleasant, during this trying time of excessive heat. A passenger from south by the mail steamer, as the sun first glints on this snow-white township, may well let his mind wander back to the early days of Captain Cook, and realise what attractions,, beside those of fame, were held out to the hardy travellers and explorers after pastures new. A walk along Haiti beach any fine evening now is sufficient to impress upon the tardy stay-at-home the pleasures he is missing. Some fifty or sixty tents, laid out with the greatest consideration to sanitary arrangements, are before his view, and in the doorways of each, and lying on the grass at the side, are the healthy campers in all the carelessness of costume, permissible nowhere but in a summer camp. Contentment reigns supreme. There is certainly listlessness, but this soon breaks before the spell of a frolic in the slow, incoming breakers and a final gambol before 1 the order of “'lights out” is given. Then slowly and gradually all the pleasant camp sounds cease, and a silent, ghostlike canvas town reposes peacefully below the evet-watchful stars.

As the first bright rays of the sun break sharply out of the East, turning the palm waters of the Pacific into a glittering coverlet of jewels, first one, then another, brown-skinned bather splashes.through the surf, and soon the whole small township is alive with the jubilant shouts of sleep-refreshed manhood and womanhood. After a hearty breakfast, cooked and eaten under nature’s covering, the campers start for their town duties, with their energy freshened and with determination to bear all the discomforts of duty, keeping ever before them the all-allur-ing joy of another night beside the sea.