Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30
Hints to Americans doing Abroad.
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Hints to Americans GGing Abroad.
There IS good deal of sound counsel
in these paragraphs from the last num-
Der of the Scottish American Journal
Americans have not yet learned thor
oughly to enjoy Europe, though Europe
has learned, very thoroughly, to enjoy
them. The fame for liberality and for
the potentiality of being fleeced of the
English neilord is beginning to pale be.
fore the prodigal expenditure of the
American on his travels. British Peers
stand aghast at the rents paid by Amer
ican bankers and merchants for Scot
tish moors, and native tourists deplore
the accelerated rate If the demoraliza-
ton OF walters at Highland inns, pro-
duced by the recklessly distributed
halt-sovereigns of the American visit
ors. Americans might spend 4
good deal less in Europe and enjoy
it good deal more. The eight DAYS
scamper of q Cook excursionist across
the low countries, up the Rhine. and
home by Paris, is leisurely, compared
with the hot haste that characterizes
the typical American sight seer. To
loiter through picture galleries. drink
in BY repeated visits, the deep repose
and solemn beauty Of Cathedral aislcs,
to got out of the beaten paths of travel
and enj 10y the charm of the still life cf
a Scottish, a French, or German ham
let, are pleasures which the American
traveller would as soon think of irving
as he woull of going into hermitage.
His aim is,as rule, to "do'; everything
and to do it with tho greatest possible
expedition. He is no longer the eccen-
trio and painfully matter of-fact being
depicted in Charles Levers novels, but
he still acts as if his only aim in get.
ting away from home was to get as
quickly back again as possible.
Year by year the Americans will
learn better what is the true method of
enjoying = European tour. Their
wives and daughters will learn that q
trip across tho Atlantic can be made to
yield higher delight than even a dress
designed by Worth or than the ability
to buy silks at half price. Meanwhile
the influence of European experience
is becoming perceptible in the tone of
American society and in the current of
American public opinion. The ignor-
ance of certain portion of the British
Te~AS - AS6~ASA ~ NOAUAuouth1 EUROPE,
found it's counterpart, until lately, in
the absurd notions entertained by the
average American about all things
European. Excellent as is, in most re.
spects, the system of education adopt.
ed in the public schools of the United
States, their methods of imparting his
torical and geographical information
are hardly calculated to give the
pupil very correct idea of the
relative importance of the past
and present nations of the world. The
boys of the United States have grown
up to be men, with very little know
ledge outside of the Union than they
got at school. 10 hundreds of Ameri-
cans it has been genuine surprise to
find European cities better paved, bet
ter cleaned. better governed altogether,
than any thing they had seen at home
To find that the subjects of Queen Vic
toria were not apparently less free by
reason of their subjection. And that
people might live under a monarchy
and speak their mind ON public ques-
tions as freely as they would in New
York, come unquestionably to many
Americans IN the light of new revela.
tion.