Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-25
Travel.

VERY many people think they can travel
without learning how. Just now, While
SO many of our readers have left their
hearths and homes for the seaside and the
mountain side, let us remind them that
travelling is an art. If you do not know
how to travel, you lose half the results of it.
II ark IN to some hints, therefore.
Travel leisurely. Some people get more
out of mile than others out OF million.
Travelling is not riding through space like
fan-tail comet. BeGter travel at your
leisure, with Your eyes open, across your
own garden, than TO shut your eyes and
hold your breath while you 60 booming
across the continent. Summer travel
should not be a matter of miles, but of en-
| joyment. Your real old stager never
hurries He knows better. He floats
along, keeping all his senses Opon, leaving
nothing until he is done with it.
Riding up Mount Washington the other
| day, in a mountain wagon, we were drench.
ed with cold rain. y gentleman in the
! party leaned over TO his half frozen son on
the first seat, and asked: Willie, how do
you like itg" Well" growl, the b y,
II shouldn't want to make business OF i"
They pretend 10 travel Tor recreation /; but
they travel AS they work, 10 see how much
they can get through They go up a
mountain because they think they should.
The mountains and the sea cOast are full
of people who have no taste for travel or
scenery, but who go because it is " the
thing to go, yOuknOw. We met one such
party at the Tip top House All the rest
of us were in transports at the glories OF
the scenery, and, above all, bTimtul of de-
light with the glories of the box stoves,
that cracked and glowed on either side
But there was par y of grumbleTs. Rich
but habitusl grumbltIs Their wOe-beg0ne
looks would have veil set off first class
funeral. Presently one young man of this
doleful party, with a look which said
Humbugged once, but not to be caught
again." dpped a knowing but melancholy
wink to companion in grief, with the re
mark, "You don't get me up. here again
you know. I'd give tw6nty- live dollars Il
be down without the trouble of going
Mount Washington, with its landscapes
: hundred miles in extent, and its sunset:
: be Ond description, was not made fo
such.
| Your real traveller is man who can ex
! tract sunbeams from cucumbers. HI
] knows just where the laugh comes in. |
, he is disappointed of what he came to see
he yet knows how to get the honey o
: humor out of the disappointment Ii h
fail of any thing else to laugh at, he alway
has good subject left in himself
: But the rarest thing in the art of travel
ing is not the knowing how to improv
discomforts and disappOintments, thOugl
} that is ind ed blessed But to know tn
use of gTumbler, that is the climax of ali
He viii not laugh. If you let him be, b.
: will spread out like pail of thick dark
ness over every body. He will not laugl
with you. Laugh at him. We know it i
not polite. But then, morose man is
} gloomy impertinence, social outlaw, al,
} there is nothing so good for him as h
= laugh at him; and there is, indeed, M
other salvation for his associates A gen
} uine traveller counts grumbler in tn
party piece Of real good fortune.-HeaIL 4
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