This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX CANADA IN WINTER IT is, I think, recognised as a fact that if the stranger wishes to see the people of a given country in their true social environment, he must visit that country during the season in which the leisure or semi-leisure classes, "society" in one word, give themselves up to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX CANADA IN WINTER IT is, I think, recognised as a fact that if the stranger wishes to see the people of a given country in their true social environment, he must visit that country during the season in which the leisure or semi-leisure classes, "society" in one word, give themselves up to social gatherings and festivities which are either impossible or unpopular at other times. This rule, if it is admitted to be such--and I am assuming it, at any rate--applies to regions of the globe in which there are marked climatic changes. In the tropics, there is practically no such change: there may be a rainy season alternating with a dry one. During the former the natives may or may not be active, but it is usually not the time to see equatorial regions in the greatest luxury of their vegetation, when fruits are ripe and the people are enjoying the good gifts which bounteous Nature lavishly bestows upon them. I know, from personal experience, that the most favourable time to visit the semi-tropical regions is midsummer; while to study the life of those people in Russia and Canada who figure in society, the proper season is precisely the opposite one; in other words, it is midwinter. I am quite aware that some peoples exactly reverse this order of procedure, flying from Russia, when the first hard frost and snow come, to the soft, balmy airs of the Mediterranean Rivieras, and seeking winter sunshine on both coasts of the tideless sea, even going well into Africa in their quest. I know, too, that some Canadians and New Englanders seek relief from the bitterness of winter in their homelands, by going to Florida, California, Mexico, or elsewhere. But it needs no declaration from me to show that these quests are entirely subjective; they do...
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