Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-12

a salary of fifteen hundred dollars.
 HILARY. MIR. WAKEMAN,s JOURNRYlNGs. On the Brlny Deep A Chapter on
 Ocean Travel-Whas One Can Do on
 Six Hundred DolIars-What to Wear
 A Steamers Ohacers and Crew-The
 Enormous Amount of Provisions
 Necessary for the Passengers.
 Ar SEA, June 21.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 During the past five years my vocation has brought me much to sea. Besides a few lit tie 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 beginning of seventh round trip to Europe. As we passed out of New York harbor, and that bitter pang one can never down, reach ing not only to those loved behind the dis appearing shorss, but to all things and per- sons that make one's own land and kind, thrilled by heart hurtfully, could not but reflect: After all, great as is the ocean travel of to-day. vast and voluminous as are the writer's log books and travellers tales about it. and sympathetic as are the pulsings of old Atlantic's activities with the throb- pings of interior commercial life, yet how few there are among our sixty or seventy millions of people who ever saw the sea; how few really comprehended what it was to sail from New York to Liverpool; and even how few of all those millions who have near ly 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 con- oeption of the scenes in their own ports at tendant upon getting away to Europe, or the strange and wonderful interest attaching to ordinary life and its environment upon one of the latest built majestic coursers of the Atlantic. And 50 I thought, as I had al- ways kept my eyes and ears open at sea, nigh, in all modesty say something inform ing and welcome about the starting and go- ing to the old world, which, because that go' ing will make of the one who goes better citizen, ought to bs every Anericau's en- deavor to effect.
 | While 1t is perhaps better to have gone | only as far as Liverpool and then come hore l again, than never to have gone at all, take the advice of an old and earnest traveller when he begs you never to go to Europe nn. | til you can go for so far as you do go, in
 complete leisure and perfect peace of mind | You cannot see all Europe in ono time, nol | in one hundred times. But whenever youl | piIgrimipg may lead you, let no guideist
 book nor bookisn guide sweep you, with cy clonio date, figures and show oratory, pas
 any place, object or being that attracts you | honest interest. Receptivity of the sensi | est rewards in travel. But one must not bi
 80 snappy and quick az the camera. Don
 rear and tear and snort and rage. Every
 shinR will remain until you come again
 When you hear a man boast of having lief
 America and "done" Ireland. England, Scot
 land, Germany, France, the Riviera, and Its
 ly to Brindisi, with look at Cairo or Al
 gIers, and got home to his desk, sir, in jus
 sixty days, sir, don't even gratify him b.
 expressing surprise. He may be an estima
 ble gentleman, an excellent business man
 and, with experience, he would doubtles
 make @ superb advance theatrical agen,
 But you may safely set him down as on
 wholly lacking in that human and human instinct and feeling which sees beyond th
 thing seen, and to which is revealed. throug leisurely contemplation of the least that , storied and old, the measureless reaches c , mind and heart food thinly yelled behind Therefore. if your vacation must be a brit one, take only a little square of the lumi
 nous European canvas for your inspection Study that so well you will know it by hear
 You will be surprised to discover how th magic lines of perspective converge upon th , | little square you ohose-whatevor bit thu ' may be. Hold as an enemy to your highe' , attainment in travel that foreigner, acquain ance or friend who attempts to rush you pa B any one thing you are endsavoring to kno . and enjoy. Carlyle said Emerson he f learned the art of sitting still. l think [ meant that the Concord philosopher had ! | wise and stubborn way of standing still a front of things until both his own vision ar | the light about those things had clear aI |. sunny quality. And that brings to two ot a CT essentials in foreign travel. One mu a never for an instant lose his temper; not l, iota of 1t. And no traveller Is fair mind l. man who will not, in every instance, @ Q deavor to think and feel from the sar d standpoint of lookout-history, associatio d environment and even religious prejudi la and feeling considered-as that possessed ,t those among whom he may come
 ,e Along with the ethical equipment me ,. tioned one needs little else save money for IF European trip, and not 90 very much of th ,s hundred dollars, can go and come in t is best steamers; travel one thousand miles ly Great Britain or upon the continent; and Ii r. very decently for three months' time. As pr an actual outfit, one is more comfortable p- less that is provided. A wisp broom whi 10 comb and brush, . tooth brush, one CO is plete change of clothing, with heavy und Tt wear, an abundance of linen faced colll
 and cuffs, paper of two sized pins, a h
 dozen extra collar buttons, shaving utensi
 two or three blocks of linen writing pa! IA c.. q sI. l., (, ,n told annoyance in securing stationery .n shipboard and in hotels). Housewife" cC ., taining assorted needles, tiny pair of gc 'S scissors, . few yards of white and colol no thread and bit of beeswax, and SC G. stout weather coat, are all that any m It. traveller actually needs. Women need e' ed rything under heaven their husbands ba bs accounts will permit them to carry along, Y. order to attempt the outshining of ev,
 other woman on shipboard or within lis confines of the effete European dynasti es That is, most women. The few others go to Europe with no larger outfit than that n si- essary for @ sensible man. Such wome UT real needs are easily and cheaply provtc ne for along the way. They go, acquire, rstt or and are immeasurably the gathers over a- rIp," without being able to tell you whetl ng it was reached via the Atlantic or the Ps he flo.
 six But whether your outfit goes aboard sl nd in c modest leather vslise, or your he it's swells with pride as you slyly observe b ,er all the ships porters are required to wres Try with 1t, sailing day, with all its anima fife scenes, inevitably arrives. However mI ol- of an old curmudgeon or stoic you may nd however often you may have formed Q F srs of them, you cannot remain passive ry, them. In New York the wharves of all sry great ocean steamship lines-the Guion. cal tional, Ounard, Anchor, French, Inman 'ay White Star lines-are massed together in lay order named along the North river, fac ing West street. On nearly every week de not vsIsel departs; but on Wednesdays and Nc srdsys. tho chief sailing days, tho bustls