Excerpt from Long Island
Long Island has at last gained the place in public estimation that it was entitled to hold long ago. We look back now half incredulous at the fatuity that led men and women of our eastern cities to make expensive journeys to remote and uncomfortable places, there to spend the summer. But it was always that way. The prophet, you know, is a long time getting honor in his own country, and the wild flower that grows beside our door-step is crushed under foot as we hasten out to do homage to the exotic that has just come into a forced and sickly bloom in the garden. So, Long Island has been biding its time these many years, but it is finally known and understood. People at last appreciate the beauty, the health, the fertility and the variety of Long Island. Variety? quotha. Yes. We used to think it a sandy waste dotted with scrub oaks and mosquitoes, because people who have never been there used to tell us that was the kind of a place it was. Now, as a matter of fact, there is no equal surface of land east of the Mississippi that offers so much variety. Depend upon it, whatever your tastes may be, you will find a way to satisfy them within a few hours ride of Americas center of population. There are beaches and surf on the south side, bluffs and quiet water on the north, forests and lakes in the middle, wild moorland breaking precipitously down into the Atlantic surges at the east; you are reminded of the western prairies about Garden City, and of the idyllic farming country of Connecticut on the north shore. Are your preferences social? The society of the new villages of summer homes and club houses is brilliant, resourceful and hospitable.
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