The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-13

heart food thinly yelled behind. Therefore,
If your vacation must be brief one, take !
only little square of the luminous Euro
pean canvas for your inspection. Study that |
so we'll you will know it by heart. You will |
be surprised to discover how the magic |
lines of perspective converge upon the little |
square you choose-whatever bit that may !
be. Hold as an enemy to your highest at
tainment in travel that foreigner, acquaint-
ance or friend who attempts to rush you
past any one thing you are endeavoring to
know and enjoy. Carlyle said Emerson had
learned the art of sitting still. think he
meant that the Concord philosopher had a
wise and stubborn way of standing still in
front of things until both his own vision and
the light about those things had a clear and
sunny quality. And that brings to two other
essentials in foreign travel. One must never
for an instant lose his temper; not an
iota of it. And no traveller is a fair-minded
man who will not, in every instance, en-
deavor to think and feel from the same
standpoint of outlook-history, association,
environment and even religious prejudice
and feeling considered-as that possessed
by those among whom he may come.
Along with the ethical equipment men,
toned one needs little else save money for
a European trip, and not SO very much of
that. Any one with good sense, Judgment
and 5000, can go aud come i'll the best
steamers: travel LOCO miles in Great Brit
ain or upon the continent; and live very de-
Gently for three months time. As to an act
ual outfit, one is more comfortable the less
can be carried in "A hip pocket,
diminutive comb and q brush, a
tooth brush, one complete change of
clothing, with heavy underwear, an
abundance of linen-faced collars and
cuffs, paper of two-sized pins, ha If doz-
two or three blocks of linen writing paper,
with envelopes for the same. (for there is
untold annoyance in securing stationery on
shipboard and in hotels) housewife
containing assorted needles, tiny pair of
good scissors, a few yards of white and col
ored thread and a bit of beeswax, and
good stout weather coat, are all that any
male traveller actually needs. Women need
everything under heaven their husbands
bank accounts will permit them to carry
along, in Older to attempt the outshining
of every other woman on shipboard or
within the confines of the effete European
dynasties. That is, most women. The
few others go to Europe with a no larger
outfit than that necessary for a sensible
man. Such women's real needs are asily
and cheaply provided for along the way.
They go, acquire, return and are immeas-
prattle and CAB about ..Yorrip,s without
being able to tell you whether it was reached
via the Atlantic or Pacific.
But whether your OUTFIT goes abOard-Shlp
in a modest leather valise. or your heart
swells with pride as you slyly observe how
all the ships porters are required to wrestle
with it, sailing day. with all its animated
scenes, inevitably arrives. However much
of an old curmudgeon or stole you may be,
however often you may have formed part
of them. you cannot remain passive to them.
In New York the wharves of all the great
ocean steamship lines-the Guion, National
Cunard, Anchor, French, Inman and White
Star lines-are massed together in the order
| street. On nearly every week day a yesse
departs; but on Wednesdays and Saturdays
the chief sailing days, the hustle and excite
ment are tremendous. Incoming and de
| parting steamships constantly mingle theil
| important and excessive activities. For {
half mile along West street, facing the
wharyes there is apparently inextricabl,
confusion, but in reality wonderful dis
cipline and order, in the handling of in
coming and outgoing ocean freight. Ths
hotels, chophouses saloons telegraph Offices
and wharves are open night and day. Their.
is no dimlnution of din, traffic and appar
emit hopeless confusion the whole nigh
long.
AS the sailing hour approaches the grea
lines of drays and transfer wagons give WAY
to lighter vehicles. These, laden with bon
bons, fruits and flowers gifts to departing
friends, look bright and pretty; but they
are shortly displaced by as handsome
show of carriages as you will see on tn.
sunniest day in Central Park. If YOU
steamer sails on bright afternoon you may
count more than 1,000of these. They brinl
departing passengers and host of friends
to wish them we'll. By this time all the decks