The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-09-01
OUR couNrRYMEN ABROAD.
Youths Com panion.

OUR COUNTRYMEN ABROAD. Youths Companion.
 Several thousands of happy Ameri- cans are now in the full tide of their vacation tour in Europe. They have been going across the Atlantic in great numbers during the last few weeks, turning away untempted from the "American Switzerlands" which are 90 numerous.
 This country is greatly blest in Switzerlands, which are not wholly overlooked by our mighty host of pleasure seekers. There were days last summer, when the throng Of ve- hicles and pedestrians in the Franconia Notch of the White mountains was 80 dense that it was difficult to get along and there was a general response to u waggish proposal to petition the leg islature of New Hampshire to "widen it out" Nevertheless, there are only two kinds of people in the United States who do not give the preference to tour in Europe, namely, those who have "been over before," and those who cannot yet afford the ex- pense.
 Probably, all the tourists come back little better for their journey in some particulars, while to many of them it is an experience that makes them richer for life; for they bring back, besides their unmounted photo graphs, store of pleasing recollec- tions, and, perhaps, some new notions of decoration and usage that are capa- ble of transplantation.
 An American boy, for example, who observes the polite demeanor of French boys-how scrupulous they are to treat their parents with respect, and even to salute the passer-by in coun- try places-may get new sense of the enchanting beauty of obedience and decorum. He may perceive, for the first time, how much person honors himself when he pays the honor that Is due to others, and how all life is en- nobled and made interesting by the al- most universal observance of rational etiquette.
 A we'll known American, on being asked what was the prettiest thing he saw in Europe, replied that it was 8 boy, of fourteen, in country town of Yorkshire, who was backing his shoes on Sunday morning.
 While the boy was engaged in this labor, his father opened window, and, throwing out to him a pair of boots, sang out in cheery, friendly tone, "Tom, give mine a rub while you are about it, there's a good fel- fowl"
 The boy replied in the same tone and spirit, and evidently as g matter of course, "I will, father, with pleas ure."
 The American traveller went on his way, deeply touched by this small in- cident, feeling, too, that not all of the boys of his native land would have taken pleasure in performing just that kind of service, even for 8 father. He felt all the loveliness, not of the Eng fish lad blacking the boots, but of his being heartily willing to do it. The incident betrayed and revealed 6 right and high feeling on both sides.
 A traveller with good eyes sees a great deal more on journey than his guide book mentions. A Paris news- paper told the other day how the de- licious Vienna rolls were first made known to Frenchmen. and through Frenchmen to all the world. August Fang, of Vienna, being in Paris on his wedding journey, asked the waiter for some of the nice bread to which he was accustomed at home, mentioning the various rolls by their Vienna names.
 "I never heard of them" replied the man. "What are they?"
 Zang answered, "In about six months you will know"
 And so it proved. He brought the bakers and the apparatus from vien- na, introduced the Vienna bread to mankind and died . millionaire.
 That was turning journey to prof. itable account, and many travellers have done better even than introduce from foreign lands an improved style of bread