V 

 AWAY TO WESTMORLAND 



SHOULD you be in Milnthorpe, it is not 

 far to the Vale of Winster. This country- 

 side, vast in area and thinly populated, 

 has about it compelling charm. Bowness, 

 Windermere, the Lake District generally, happen 

 to be comparatively near : and how many visitors 

 Lakeland attracts, in spring, summer, autumn, can 

 in part be estimated by the unending procession 

 of motor charabanc, motor-car, motor-bicycle, 

 bicycle, streaming through Milnthorpe. They 

 are almost all bound for the Lakes. Milnthorpe 

 village, therefore, has life about it. But, as a hotel 

 proprietor at Bowness said : " The good people 

 of Milnthorpe merely see the people passing 

 through. IVe get them ! " Bowness's superiority, 

 ultimate triumph, were settled in that spoken 

 word. 



At Milnthorpe, standing at a corner of the 

 main road, you see Lancashire mill-hands, from 

 all parts, one would imagine, of the industrial 

 hive, in those motor charabancs, which carry 

 twenty-eight passengers. A massive vehicle, your 



