The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-01
Benefits of Travel.

AS uOy is plct>cu Win WulSLl0 OI
knife. and in youth finds delight with
either horse or bicycle, so in man
hood come the changes of taste and
ambition. The pleasures of twenty
are out-lived at thirty, and at forty we
are looking through the tunnel to the
light at the other end, and not until
very much older, believe, do we long
for the lost days of boyhood.
The years that seemed slow in pass
ing at twenty go by like fast coaches
before forty, and startle us like q
night express at fifty.
The longing to keep young is an
who could tell of land where youth
is renewed, would be hailed as lead
er with a spendid following. An yet,
to one Injured to bleak and inclement
climates, a simple change to the mild
er weather of Southern Missouri, Kan
sas, New Mexico or California, will
work wonders in the renewing of
youth.
A air bath by travel and a new sur
rounding, provided one is employed
and contented, is one of the surest
means of reviving lost energy and in
creasing vitality. The wine-like winds
of travel-for nothing is so much like
it, in stimulating vigor, as the swift
draughts of air one inhales by contrast
of china tests of all things intoxica-
ting to the senses. We feel the world
is larger. we know the earth is beauti-
full, and of all things to the debilitated,
travel is the key TO happiness.
Travel breaks up our narrowness,
enlarges our love of enjoyment, in
creases our belief in improvements,
revives our recollections, and enlarges
our view of others. 1t does more 1t
adds new life to the old one and
brings to the newer the right to live
over the other, and fulfills the longing
to be a boy again. for travel in
strange and romantic country is to be-
gin life anew; and settling for a sea-
son in some fair valley C'where the
smile of the Creator has crvstalized
on the landscape'), or in some city of
refinement, is a world that before was
AS an aid to conversation and q
theme of general use in business or
pleasure, it is broad and instructive;
as a means of learning history it is be-
yond all books, maps and teachers;
for acquiring knowledge it is rare
experience. He is II wise man who
has known many men, seen many
cities"
The influence of travel on reading,
love of learning, and general advant-
age over information gained in books,
need not be urged to enforce its mean
ing. We all know that the more one
learns the more he will learn, and a
fact once outlined of fields well known
will outlast all descriptions.
From the chances of trade and the
changes of business, we often meet
men and women who have seen better
DAYS, whose ample fortune once af-
forded the luxury of ease and comfort.
Notably is this true OF the once
planters at the South, who
have lost in the vortex of commerce,
and the tide of affairs, the means that
had furnished many feast of enjoy
ment, whose present chief solace is in
he fond recollection of what was
heirs so long in reality and is now
)nly cherished IN memory. From
hese we may learn that next to our
nearest friendships VIII ever be the
rain and profit of strange lands Wis
ted. fortunes enjoyed, and fond scenes
And what, after all, is life but lit
le journey in Il strange land, with a
ew companions, less friends, flying |
rain, halt at the little stations,
est and q recollection of what we |
ave seen, known and enjoyed most
s we travelled, even though they may
@ unpossessed of like impressions
nd surroundings.
The chief gain of travel is that
leans of making one at home with
ne many classes of associates who
sad from the start that ono of easy
tanners has at least some superior
nowledge of the world. Then, too.
10 pleasures of contemplation must
yer be source of companionship,
nd one that has travelled many miles
ith attention will have a mind well
ored with natural paintings and
easant places, to recall at leisure
I'd enjoy when alone.
The enlargement of the mind on
cling the growth of great cities, the
ogress of vast improvements in
echanism and arts, with the still
eater wonder at the works of nature
seen in rivers and mountains, val
rs like Harper's Ferry and the Yo-
mite, falls like Niagara, the grander
.bts of the Yellowstone, are all
9mes to contemplate, enlighten and
'pire. Books and paintings can
yer wholly define them,-J w. Don
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