The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-13
CROSSING THE BIG POND.
Suggestions by an Experienced Trav-
eler on Getting Ready
and Going.
Beware OF Guideish Books and
Bookish Guides When in
$3.50 Europe.
Take Timo to SEQ the Things that
Acknowledgements for Man and
Woman.

AT SEA, June 2.-During the past five
years my vocation has brought me much to
sea. Besides few little journeyings along
the old Acadian shores, Cubaward, and
among and about the sunny Bahamas, to
the dreamland Azores Isles and to the
steely coasts of Labrador, this is the be-
ginning Of seventh round trip to Europe.
A ne passed out of New York harbor, and
that bitter pang one can never down, reach
ING to:not only those loved behind the disap-
nearinpshores but to all things and persons
int make ones own land and kind. thrilled
nv heart hurtfully, l could not but reflect:
After all, great as is the ocean travel of to-
dav, vast and voluminous as are the writer's
Loo books and travellers tales about it, and
sympathetic as are the pulslncs OF old
Atlsntic's activities with the throb-
binRs Of interior commercial life, yet
how few there are among our sixty or
seventy millions of people who ever saw
tho sea; how few really comprehended what
e VAS to sail from New York to Liverpool;
and even how few of all those millions who
have nearly all their lives resided in Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco,
and other great seaport cities, that ever
once saw an ocean steamer, or had the
most meager conception of the scenes in
their own ports attendant upon getting
avay to Europe, or the strange and wonder
full interest attaching to ordinary life, and
its environment upon one of the latest
built majestic coursers OF the Atlantic
And SO thought, as had always kept Ivy
eyes and ears open at sea, l might in all
rnodeety say something informing and well
come about the starting and going to the
old world, which, because that going will
make of the one who goes better citizen,
ought to be every Americans endeavor to
effect.
While it is perhaps better to have gone
only as far as Liverpool and then come
home again, than never to have gone at all,
take the advice of an old and earnest trav-
eler when he begs You never to go to Europe
until you can go for SO far as you do go. in
complete leisure and perfect peace of mind.
You cannot see all Europe in one time, nor
in one hundred times. But wherever your
pilRriming may lead you, let no guideish
book or bookish guide sweep you, with cy-
clonic dates, figures and show oratory, past
any place, object or being that attracts your
honest interest. Receptivity of the sensi-
tive camera sort is an essential to the high
ct rewards in travel. But one must not be
% snappy and quick as the camera, Sit.
think, saunter, dream. Don't rear and tear
and snort and rage. Everything will re-
main until you come again. When you
hear a man boast of having left America
and DONE Leland. England, Scotland
Germany, France, the Riviera, and Italy to
Bxiudisi, with look at Cairo and Algiers,
and got homo 10 his desk, sir, in just sixty
1aya, sir. don't even crafty him by express
- luprlse. He may be an estimable gen.
t1onaan, m excellent business man, and
1 Nth experience. he would doubtless make
auperb advance theatrical agent. Bul
- may safely ut him down as one who'll,
g ooaing ia that human and humane in.
n1in1t and feeling which sees beyond thu
fkin0 zen, and to which is revealed
& 2nrc1gh leisuSsly contemplation of thu