The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-30
CERTAIN KINDS OF TOURISTS.
They'd Better Stay Hons aud Save the
GOLD They Squand.r In Europe.

They'd Better Stay Hons and Save the
Colo They Squand.r Ia Europe.
Senator Washburn. of Minnesota, has
expressed himself with great freedom
on the subject Of American tourists
abroad, and his structures have been
taken up sharply in some quarters and
criticised as the uttcrances of too
superior person, whose lofty point of
view could not permit him 10 under
stand the pleasures of the common herd
OF travellers. And yet great majority
OF Americans who visit Europe for the
first time will sympathize with him in
his indignant outburst or course Mr..
Washburn was sweeping i'm his charges,
and cmbellished his statements with
the picturesque in expression at the
cost of some exaggeration. But at bot
tom he touched upon truth which has
filed good many American innocents
abroad with shame and Indignation.
There is n whole tribe of wandering
Arabs from our shores of just the quail
ity that Mr. Washburn has noticed and
despised. No American can spend even
little time in Europe without running
up against them with shudder. In u
moment he understands what has all
his life been n mystery TO him; the un-
just and absurd judgments Of foreign
crs upon American life and manners,
and the presentation in English fiction
and on the English stage of typical
Americans" who have no likeness To
any thing in the heavens above or the
earth beneath. At last the original is
found. II is this type Of American
tourist which the coclSncy has taken as
his standard. One can not be surpris-
ed, after seeing it in life, that we have
been the butt of the satirist, and that
one misjudgment has followed another.
For how any good thing can come out
OF nation that produces such charac.
ters is conundrum which even we our
selves might puzzle to answer.
This style Of American, whom one
meets almost everywhere abroad, is ig-
norant, noisy, self-asscrtive, boorish
Sometimes IL is because he has plenty
of money TO spend that he forces him
self upon general notice, but quite as
often he is rs povcrty-striclscn in poclS- |
ct as in intelligence. lie forces himself |
into notice everywhere. He is first and |
loudcst and most lll-brcd at table. lie |
convcrses in the loudest possible tones, |
in all public conveyanccs, Mt hotels and |
stations and on the streets, with any.
body who is handy, on any subject that |
may come handy, from European poll. |
tics To his own domestic relations and |
the state of his internal organs; and |
confidcs 60 public audience facts
which are as unintcrcsting as they are
vulgar. He elbows his way to the best
place, quite oblivious Of the comforts
and rights OF others. lie seems to take
pleasure I'm SO uniting and displaying
his ignorance and his nationality that
the things shall bc regarded rs INSOFAR.
able lie goes i'm troops as rule, Wis.
ting the stock places, seeing the sights
exactly as he would clean out cess
pool at home, in n thoroughly business
like spirit, hustling his way through
gallery and cathedral planting himself
in solid array before each object OF in.
-erest, reading at the top Of very high
pitched voice what the guide book has
10 say about IL, passing instantly 10 the
next, and so returning 20 his hotel al
levy eve with beautifully long list
IF things done" and quite ready foi
he next days campaign.
Like beetles and bugs, these people
nave their place in the world, one sup
poses; but the wonder grows upon him
rs TO why on earth they should go 70
Europe. st Paul Pioneer Press
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