The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-12
The Exodus to Europe.

from he W0rtd.
Another week Of the early summer closing
Saturday contributes its quota to the noble
army of American travellers to Europe. an army
never so large as during the present season, and
whose cry on all the piers of Havre and South
ampton, Liverpool and Bremen, still is, ''they
come" 1t is not easy to get amore vivid notion
of the condition of things on the European con-
tinent during the tremendous nalona, and Ma
poeonic wars of the beginning of the present
century, than one receives from au inspection
OF the hote-records which in towns toen the
great centres of continental travel, are still to
be seen, and in which, TOR space of twenty
years, no entry OF an English name Is to be
found. In one OF the most curious and interest
ing OF these monumental account-books, after
fully twenty years of exclusively continental en-
tr1es, appears the whimsical but significant re-
cord, MIR. and Mrs. Gotobed, ofLondon; on their
way to the Congress at Viennaw What a world
of historical suggestion, "reminiscences, and
illustration is comprised IN that single sentence!
The downfall OF Napoleon |; the constitution of
that European system" of which, after fifty
years, we are now witnessing the complete
overthrow and abolition; the liberation of france
and Germany and Italy from the pressure of the
most gigantic military organization which the
modern world has known; the emancipation of
thousands of British subjects enriched by the
high prices and fat contracts of long war from
the prosperous confinement of their little but
opulent island-all these are Swallowed forth
with quaint but striking emphasis in the ap.
peaTance of 'Mr. and Mrs. Gotobed, of London"
rejoicing to shake German dust from their swift
LongacIe wheels, and bent on gazing upon the
gorgeous convocation of 'the princes and the
powers" about to assemble in the capital OF
Austria.
Glow rich heaven! star on star!
Who knoweth and can name them"
With the exodus of British wealth and curiosity
which followed the long wars from 1898 to 1916,
that now traditional creature the British nettord,
rin 6r1
ing il by his el travagance, came upon the stage.
The opera of Fra DldUOtG sti1 preserves his
praise upon The lyric boards, but Lord All.
cash. has died out from the living reverence OF
hOtel-keepers, and no LONGER shakes the post
roads with the golden thunder Of his coming,
from Cologne to Naples. FIRST the Russian, and
next the American, have supplanted him. Dur
ing the civil war, there was very perceptible
cessation, however, in the flow Of the tide Of
American dollars and American ineXperience
towards the centres of European attraction.
Now, the war being over, despite the efforts of
Congress to persuade mankind to the contrary,
we see the movement OF our countrymen towards
the eastward taking upon itself fresh impetus
which curiously recalls the British outbreak
after 1876
Thousands of our citizens are seeking in for
eign travel a wholesome recreation OF minds
tagged by the incessant strain OF the passions Of
four years OF civil strife; thousands more, sud
| denly enriched by the tides OF paper money so
freely liberated upon us during those years, are
rushing TO Paris and London and Rome in
| search OF the mysterious waters of fashion and
refinement which are supposed to be forever
| yelling up in those spas of civilization.
There Is little German town called Schlan-
| genbad which exists by virtue of certain mineral
baths to which the virtue is attributed OF so com
pletely rene wing the freshness and beauty OF the
human frame, that, as a clever Frenchman once
said to Sir Francis Head, person emerging from
them positively falls in love with HIMSELF"
| similar result is not seldom found to follow
from the sudden plunge of some western
barbarian into the social waters of The great
European capitals. Many a Cymon, leaping
into them, comes out again a Narsssus. The
old maxim, that there is no foollike travelled
fool,n is too often forced upon the mind when
ole comes in contact with the new Howadji
of q single summers briei and bewildering
European tour. Those who make the voyage
to Europe, and hurry under steam-pressure
from Paris to st. Petersburg, and from Liver
pool to Naples, in quest OF some miraculous
transformation whereby they shall be suddenly
metamorphosed from ignorant Doors into ac-
compliehed men OF the world, ought, for the
most part, II they would but be as honest with
themselves as their neighbors are pretty sure 10
be for them, to take upon their lips the comics
sion OF Robert Wace when he returned from his
trip in search OF the Breton stone OF youth-
Like fool on FOOLS errand went forth, and
like fool / have returned again. But ever
these children Of UnWlsdom, perhaps may