The Barmouth and County Advertiser and District Weekly News

TRIPPERS. We do not know who invented this rather meaningless word; the fact remains that it has stuck to a certain class as a term of reproach. We do not think this exactly as it should be we are, in fact, all of us trippers on some occasions and would hardly care that the term should be ex- tended to us. It is an ancient fallacy that "trippers'' do the towns they visit little or no good, but we think it almost time that such an idea were exploded. In fact the middle and working classes who generally fill the excursion trains to this and other seaside resorts are more willing to spend freely than their more exalted brothers and sisters who in many cases keep themselves supplied by the great Co-opera- tive Stores. We consider it a mistake not to extend a warm welcome to those who visit the town for six or ten days, and we should like to see the turnover they create amongst local trades- men and others. As to their behaviour, there are black sheep in all flocks, but we think every- one will agree that the demean | our of most of those who visit A • Barmouth by excursion trains l leaves little or nothing to be I desired. I

I HOLIDAY PLEASURE. Spring cleaning has been car- ried out in all the pleasant sea- side resorts and inland spas of North Wales during the past two or three months on a gigantic scale, and with a thoroughness I which has left the hotels and boarding-houses in a state that will bear the most critical inspec- tion of the most exigentTnother of a family that ever came out of England anxious for the comfort and health of her people. rrlie spring cleaning has in- cluded both the insides and the outsides of the hotels and board- ing-houses referred to, and in con- sequence the urban portions of North Wales- whereto" visitors most do tend present a sweet and spick-and-span appearance, which of itself must constitute a grate- ful attraction for the thousands of visitors—there is nothing more certain than their coining. Inside, the rooms, with just a faint suspicion of the odour of the new paint which has been spread over the walls, and the n d whitevlash laid on the ceilings, combining into a perfume as deli- cate and delightful as that of a wild flower; the bedrooms and sitting-rooms and dining-rooms— I 1 I d t. cool and clean and sweet—invite and promote restful calm. Out- side, the newly-painted frontages unite in producing the same har- monius and attractiue effect. An so, calmly confident of pre- paredness and ability to cope with the further needs and demands of the incoming hosts of English visitors, Barmouth, and many a less-known but beautiful little village or hamlet lie in the bright sun, each and all waiting to woo and to captivate the strangers whojwill pour into Gwalia's gates from east and west and north, and even from the south. Even so far much has been done in preparation for the entertain- ment of the throngs of strangers and friends. Of friends particu- larly, because many of those who will come have been here before, and cannot now be distantly re- ferred to as "strangers," for they have tasted the delights of Wales and enjoyed them so greatly as to have fallen in love with the land and its people and charms, and are therefore friends. But much more has been done that will add a joy to the old joys of a holiday in North Wales..

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