The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-24
FREE-AND-EASYTRAVEL
\ SENSIBLE AND PLEASANT WAY TO
GO ABROAD.
Ueeing England on Foot and by Boat.
Pedestrianism In Switzerland-The
Greatest Enjoyment by the
= Simplest Means.


NXW YORK, May 0-1he new, the OH
1erent, the unhackneyed is what human
nature demands, especially in its pleasures;
yet it is almost the last thing it seeks in its
travels. To do just what ones neighbor has
done seems to he the line marked out for
most peoples wandering.
"Why should one go abroadp signs the
Fifth avenue belle; "Paris is only New
York set in asphalt" Nevertheless she HES
herself across the sea and pitches her tempo
rary tent upon the asphalt because her friend
IN the next block, or her cousin around the
corner, is about to do the same. The boule-
wards and park.ets of the French capital are
twice as familiar to her as the questionable
quarters of her own city: but it does not
occur to her either to search out something
new at home, or to leave the beaten path
abroad.
Yet in every country in Europe there are
such pleasant ways Of spending summers
leisure without haunting the big cities or
yawning over the stock sights. OF course,
the enjoyment of these ways presupposes an
absence of craving for pavements and plate
glass, some individuality of taste, some gen.
OxQ6 love Ol ndtulo Dub UneSS are really
much more salient characteristics of the
average traveller than is commonly supposed,
and he often requires only the right direc-
ton and impulse to quickly develop them. AL
most everybody who has read "The Strange
Adventures of a Phaeton" said 'sWhat a de-
ightful thing to do" And when the ac-
counts Of Mr. Andrew Carnegie's coaching
md <rixy 10 fbe,
public. many added, in the refrain of Coughs
well-known poem, How pleasant it is to
have money, heigh-hol how pleasant it is to
have money"
But you need not be millionaire 70 APP
proximate in simple fashion to these chron-
icled delights; and because you may not fill
the box seat on a coach and six, there is no
reason why you should scorn basket wagon
and one. Indeed, to quiet folk the latter is
full as likely to bring satisfaction as the
former, and would in any case have this
great advantage, that there could be little
opportunity for conflict of taste among the
lew occupants Of a small carriage; whereas,
b . big one the party, to be compatible,
must needs be most tactfully chosen.
A gentleman and lady, who are going to
England for the coming summer, have
planned to take drive through that most de-
iightful of counties-War wickshire- Tracing
put the hooks and corners that George Eliot
has made dear to the hearts Of her read
Ms-an the way ON from "Griff," the coun-
Try home on the road from Coventry to Nun
saton, where Mary Ann Evans passed her
Eirl life. Within the limits OF this same
green shire there are, too, the fascinating
ruins of Ksnnworth, whence no truth of his
tory shall tear the ghost of Amy Rob
art; and Stratford peacefully sleeping
beneath the mantle Of Shakespeare's great
ness; and Warwick Castle that ideal feudal
home; and dozens of other places within a
stones throw Of each other, SO to speak,
among which 1t Is never ceasing delight to
wander. II a carriage journey be not feast
BILE, Leamington-the famous and charming
old spa-is an excellent point whence to make
trips, and the remotest edges of the county
are easily within days excursion. Perhaps
the greatest pleasure of such nomadism Is
reserved for the genteel 'tramps," those
happy persons who like to, and are able to
walk. II Is not pedestrianism in any strict
sense; for pedestrianism seems to imply some
form Of resolve, some conscious and deter
mined physical effort; whereas, walking In
the midland and southern counties of Eng
land, where tho turf springs under ones feet,
and tho roads and by-ways are like park
paths, walking becomes only purposcful
iounging out of doors. In the lovely Lake
country Of Westmorelandshire riding Is
s'worse than crime-it Is a blundcr;r not
only because you may walk with the shades
Of Wordsworth, and Southcy, and Colcridge,
but because human feet may penetrate re-
ccsses where wheels and hoofs cannot 60.
For those who will not walk, and do not
wish TO ride, there Il yet another opportunity,
and that Is upon tho water In this country
Of great rivers wc are apt TO regard tho
streams Of Great Britain "a unimportant,
except for pictorial purposes But, however
united N their commercial utility, their
value 10 the lcisurcly searcher aftcr the pic
turcsque IL unquestioned. To start from
London In roomy and comfortable boat
hired either for definite or indefinite time-
with q congcniai friend or two, and ths
shawlstrap luggage OF experienced travellers,
and row slowly up tho Thames, stopping
wherever fancy plcascs 10 mako detours on
foot, or for food and lodging nj tho charming
inns on shore h perhaps 10 enjoy tho ono
perfect holiday Of a lifetime, II may
cover week, or month, without
ever becoming monotonous; 10 mover can bc
hurried by any sense OF timetables and close
connections, or deapoiled Of Ia romance by
tho thought Of ultimate swailowtails and
tables dh0te, II may be pursued by the
light OF the slowly awakening dawn the full
splendor OF noontide or under the stars and
the moon, and no soulie~s corporation can
compel you TO start At ono hour, or declare
that you arc duo at another II you become
infected with this form Of midsummer mad.
nee. you can 60 nearly all over England In
. boat by means Of IL intsrlacing canals and
little rivers.
For pede~trianizm, In liz trus~t and most
fascinating sense, one must 20 10 switser.