Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-01-11
Jan the World q VILLAGE

which has appeared simultaneously in
San Francisco, New York and London 4?
Round the world in Eighty-one Days
for S1l45 in gold, (e229, sterling.) |
From San Francisco to Yokohama, 400
miles; from Yokohama to Hong Kong,
1000 miles; from Hong Kong to Calcut-
ia, $500; from Calcutta to Bombay, 400 |
miles; from Bombay to Suez, 5000 miles;
from Suez to Alexandria, 225 miles; from |
Alexandria to Brindisi, $50 miles; from |
Brindisi to London, 1900 miles; from
London to New York, 5000 miles; from
New York to San Francisco, 1894 miles.
This announcement is veritable sign
of the times and of the restless activity
of the race. Nobody thinks it much of
an achievement in our day to circum-
navigate the globe. English and Ame.i-
can manufacturers make the grand tour
in the way of their business, and look
upon it as a matter of course. And not
only the young but the old make the
circle, that would have appalled, their
grandfathers. Mr.. Seward, late Secre-
tary of State for the American Union,
made the trip at the ripe age of seventy,
and having died at the ripper age of
seventy-two, has left the world the reci-
tai of what he saw, heard, and did, dur
ing the journey. A hale old friend of
mine, who is upwards of seventy-fve
years of age, started from London, few
months ago, to New York and San Fran
cisco, intending to proceed from San
Francisco to India, China, Australia and
New Zealand, ana thought little more
of it than if he were going to the High
lands of Scotland for his autumnal holi-
day. Doubtless he will return all right
for he has pluck enough for anything,
and, barring accident or shipwreck, it is
very likely that he will accomplish the
feat, which he has undertaken from pure
love of adventure, or the desire of
change ard occupation. The late Mr..
Arson Burlingame, who was appointed
ambassador from the United States to
China, and reappointed ambassador by
China to his own country and to all the
great powers of Europe, declared he
never knew how little the world was
until he had sailed around it. SIN
fact, said he, 81 have learned to look
upon the world as no more than good
sized village"
Distance and remoteness have be-
come traditions of the past, and the
imagination of the man who can cor
respond, by the electric cable, with New
York, San Francisco, or Canton, and
receive an answer in an hour or two, or
perhaps in q few minutes, needs no
great prompting to look upon those
places as within easy reach of his foot,
II 1t be his pleasure to visit there. The
consequences of this neighborship of
once widely-separated lands are de-
fining themselves more distinctly every
day, and threaten, perhaps it should be
said promise, to assimilate the costume,
the manners, and to q partial extent
the language of all the nations of the
world. Time was when the traveller,
who strayed no further afeld than to
the Continent of Europe, would refresh
his eyes by the study of many pictures
que varieties of national costume. In
Belgium, in Holland, in Germany, in
Italy, in Switzerland, in Brittany, in
the South of France, in Spain, he found
not only change of scene, language
and manner, but change in the attire
of men and women, which pleased him
| by its novelty, as well as by it's beauty
There was something piquant and at,
tractive in the Spanish mantilla, as
worn by the dark-eyed Andalusians and
Madrilenas. This garment is now rare
ly to be seen, though not many years
ago it was as common in the streets Of
Brussels and Antwerp as in those Of
Madrid and Seville. The hideouE
chignon and the miserable apologies
for head-gear which the ladies of Eng
land, France, and America delight t.
wear, have rendered the beautiful man
tilla impossible. The peasant girls O.
the Swiss cantons, with their quain
petticoats, and their coquettish hats
have revolutionized their dress, and APP
pear no longer in the coarse, but pic
turesque and serviceable attire of the
olden time, but in the slatternly imita
ton of the tawdry dress affected by ser
vant-girls who ape the style of thei
, mistresses. All the Christian nations
of the world dress pretty nearly alike
and the Orientals to follow suit.
Not the least curious incident of tn,
approximation of the peoples, which
steam and the electric wire have brough
about, is the awakening of the sluggish
Oriental mind to kno Wedge of the fac
that there is Western as well as al
Eastern civilization, and that the forme
is in many respects worthy of limitation
and cultivation. The Chinese and Jap
anese have begun to swarm over thei
. own border into other lands, and cross
ing the Pacific, have made foot-hold il
California and Oregon, to the great ad
vantage of themselves and of those TIVE
, states of the American Union. The,
are excellent mechanics, first rate bakers
and gardeners, and as laundresses ant
getters up of fine linen, they are un
rivalled for neatness, punctuality, ant
cheapness. They also make admirable
servants, and in a country like America
where domestic help is not only very
1 costly but very Independent and inso
lent, the economic, thrifty, painstaking
and industrious Chinese supply press
ing want so admirably, as to make the
people of New York and New England
and other states on the Atlantic sea-
board, very anxious for similar vista
ton, to replace the lazy negroes and
the saucy Irish, to whom they are almost
exclusively beholden for domestic ser.
vice. Perhaps, as the intercourse among
the nations of the East and West be.
comes more frequent and more intimate,
the Chinese and japanese may find theil
way to Europe as well as to America,
and there the sorely needed
parts of respectful, economical, and
capable servants.
And not only do the eastern potentates
of China, Japan, Borneo, and Siam, send
to England and Scotland for steam
yachts, for railway iron, and for capable
engineers to lay down their railroads