New-York tribune., 1876-04-08
YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY TRIPLE SHEET

| Inducements to European travel in the great
| lines of ocean steamers The Centennial Ex-
position will doubtless turn the great tde OF
travel which sets from our shores to Europe
every June and we trust with wholesome effect.
The class of Americans who habitually go to
| Paris or Rome are the class who slight the
claims of their own country; they usually
know less of the scenery of Colorado or the
Pacific coast than the Englishman of their own
grade of culture. 1t will be beneficial to them
| If the Philadelphia Exposition be voted the
"fashion" enough for them to visit 1t ana
they can gain there such insight into the re-
sources and claims of their own country as
now they lack.
In reference, toO to other arrangements for
the coming Summer, there are oilers or rea'
estate in the country for sale or rent; large
and superb residences with all modern con-
yeniences, cheek by jowl with the ocean, and
cottages roomy, neat, and guiltless OF mosqui-
toes OF bugs, set down in mountain solltudes
or fair champaign. The city reader draws
long breath over the glowing picture oil un-
limited trout streams, surf, berries, fruit tres,
| carriage houses, and henneries, in the midst
of which for a sum hardly worth mentioning
cousin drops his eye further down the line,
and reads of magnificent brown-stone man
sions, of elegant dwellings, and of comfortable
homes in town, of superb frescoes, and furni-
ture the description of which might have been
written by Schehcrezade, all offered for price
not absolutely stated, but which must be
thinks come within the means OF any would
he gcntce family. We car, however, safely
leave our advertisers ard their patrons to adj
lust their differences of opinion The average
American has Just as keen eyes, whether he
hail from Nassau street or the backwoods.
low keen his ewes have been to detect where
the best wares are offered to him all over the
world and how ready he has been to appro-
pirate them, may be seen, too, In these
very advertising columns more plainly than
elsewhere. The wealthy New-lOrker demands
the pictures of the best artists III Europe for
bis walls carpets from Persian looms for his
floors. A hundred years ago he knew nothing
OF the ceramic art, beyond the cost OF the
gaudy china which he imported now he is
only TO be satisfied with genuine Old crackle,
or the imperial SevTes thrown into the mar
ket after the flight of Eugene. The poorer
neighb0r has as cXsc'ing tastes, ii less money.
Trade, which is after all the real genie OF the
Arabian story, is ready to supply their de-
mands. The public has but to form wish or
whim, however fantastic, and this modern
genie in the next breath unloads its packs
from England, India, Japan, the far islands
of the sea. What the packs contain Is known
to cverybody-is it not written down IN The
TRIBCNE? There are few other chapters of
information on our social or domestic life
which are not indexcd in our last pages. The
kinds and qualities Of business and domestic
service now most in demand, and the methods OF
satisfying these needs the books which are
read, and the books equally good which are
sold at discount; the significant change in
public taste which demands curtains in lieu
of bcgilt walls, and carved wooden mantels
where Il year ago were marble horrors ana
the same change which makes the announce
ment of quiet Summer retreat mere at
tractive than that of fashionable watering
place.
The public, having its wLim, needs but touch
It's dngy lamp Cor pocket-boob) and not only
trade, but genius, learning, and science presS
forward to satisfy its demands. Beauty OF
face and figure is worth so much upon the
stage; the poets dream or the scholars dis
coycry brings in so much per page. The man
who has known heroes, kings, or great authors,
turns his "reminiscences into a lecture-iitty
cents admission the scientific inventor has his
ROYALTY. Not, be it understood, that every man
has his price or works for money but that
the shrewd, just world puts fair price on all
good work offered to it, price which it will
bring-if advertised.