Smyrna times., 1872-09-25

paSCllne. In the last generation the grand
tour was made by ambitious and enterprlsng
young men, who did Europe for year or two
in slow, staring way, and overwhelmed their
parents with descriptive letters, returning home
with a little French and Italian and tastes for
sauces and salads. Now we miss johnson and
Goldsmith from the club for few weeks, only
to learn when they return with odd looking
apparel, musical snutfbox and an astounding
meerschaum pipe, that they have just done"
Europe, the whole thing in six weeks, the |
Irish lakes included. We go to Europe now
as IN other years we went to Saratoga. Every !
year the travel increa>6s-hity thousand this |
Summer alone, We are told. And in Europe
we have an American society, little fedora
| ton OF colonies i'll Dresden and Geneva and
Paris and Nice and London, with their news
papers, their clIques, their gossip and their
fashions Every year it is becoming the Gus
| tom 10 send our children to Europe to learn
languages. "COmpctent governpsses' are CON
stantly advertising their willingness to escort a
class of young ladies' to Switzerland and teach
them the accomplishments Not long since a
dowager schO0lmlstreSs or something of the
kind went sailing over Europe and to the Nile
with dozen young ladies in her trail seeing
sights. She probably had the lot on specula-
ton, and found 80 much profit in it that others
will initiate the example, and Europe will soon
be traversed with floating companies of maid
seeing all that is to be seen
The danger, the folly, we may say the sin
: and crime Of this may be seen in the disaster
that has fallen upon this American family in
Switzerland. 1t is well to visit Europe.
Education is cheaper than with US, and per.
haps more thorough. One learns how to live
q -fOr Instance, the economies OF life that cen
Il tures of experience and the necessities Of large
{ population have taught the older and densel
fV,,a 4 Il
. not come home better patriot from what ht
3 seesabrOad. He has greater, broader, more cos
Is mOpolitan views. He learns that America is
T. greater country III some respects and not 81
e great in others. But life in Europe is full O
e temptations The family relation, the disci
"a pllnc OF which Is 20 s cred with US cannot b
r relaxed when abroad without the greatest dan
ger. Europe swarms with adventurers, exile
a from h0me society and duty, tortune-hunters
r devOtees of Baden Baden, beggarly counts VIII
pc hawk around title for an income. There is
freedom also in social relations foreign to Ou
no habits and which may have dangerous resu
rs. upon young minds unless they are zealous
at guarded by parent or guardian.
ne The family discipline which every true ma
OF cherlshes i'll his own hOme-that his sons al
he daughters may be a comfort to his old age al
is blessing to sOcety-this same disciplil
ad should be taken to Europe. To send your
ur maldens abroad in the care OF compete
Ire governess" who has five Or six to manage,
We in charge of school mistress who proposes
ent march with "a select party" of dozen or
an through the cheap hotels Of Europe, to dr.
cy. them promiscuously into the society of Drt
,e j den OF Paris, is to invite danger to tn,
led peace of mind and the home of their fam
she which we cannot exaggerate. The duty of t
wn father and the mother, so sacred and mpel
ere tive at home, is no less SO abroad for the
der are restraints of custom and association ht
the which are not found in Europe. This
we business at Lucerne would never have occur
ere had the head Of the family shown prudel
ub- and frmness in time. The way to avoid
, in Niagara leap is to keep your boat out of
out current and those of our readers who think
ON visiting Europe, or of sending their child
for, thther for study, must consider well the sole
rem responsibilities it involves.