Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-20
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For axhtseers l VIII lay down two or
three rules which have guided me moro
and more N nay habits Of travelling. and
for which ! think there - good founda-
t3oa:
Hyo1 win stay two or three daysin one
place you viii get that sort Of affection
for it and knowledge Of its interior life,
II ons may uss 50 large . phrsss. which
makes you always remszaber it with
ptsAsure. II, ON the other hand, you
should spend the same three days IN
going TO three different places you have
in each Of them only the annoyance OF
dropping your anchor and pulling It up
again. only the htsle trials which neces-
sArily belong TO the first hours in an inn
o. . lodging house, aud before these lit
tie snnoyances are well over you have
gone on your way again.
Ny experience Is that have very little
recollection Of any sort Of places where
! have simply spent night OF part Of
. day, and that for filing up that great
fund Of experience and memories the
maintenance Of which h the great object
Of travelling IL is always desirable 10 TO
main fer . little while whore you ara
well OF, that yoa may become acquaint-
ed not simply with tho circumstances.
but with the real character Of what In .
certain way you may thus make homo.
hold that no man should travel with
the mere idea Of being amused. He has
no right to walk into . town OF an inn
and say to the first person he meets
there, ''Come and amuse me; show me
what there is which - entertaining.
Wherever q man goes he should carry
certain tastes Of his own, should have
certain objects which have interested
him in life, and he should inquire with
regard to those objects, as this particu-
lar place may have an answer to give to
his inquiries.
And this say with good deal Of hes
itation- I know nothing in the mere
crossing Of the water which should
change Us all into critics of fine art.
am always little amazed when go by
chance into q picture gallery in Paris,
in Brussels, or in Antwerp, 10 find there
some we'll to do Americans whom
never should by any accident have found
In the academy at New York or the art
gallery in Boston. cannot see why we
should all be compelled to SEQ paintings
in Europe, and in every city in Europe,
when at home we do not consider the ex-
animation of paintings to b our prin u
pal and especial business like to sec
good picture, think, e much - any
body does. But / cannot understand
why the profession Of . traveller and
that Of Q connoisseur in art should be
considered. as certainly they are consid-
cred, as being very much the same thing.
So do not believe. Is say, that per-
son gains qualifications for an art critic
by the accident of his crossing the ocean.
To young travellers am forever say
ing. keep scrapbooks." They are even
better than journals, by which mean,
preserve little queer bits Of printed in
formation which win come drifting into
your hands every day, and which in
after years VIII have . value from asso-
cistion which Of course does not attach
to them, and by the Same token what
ever is written at tbs moment has q
freshness aft-rward which no recollec-
ton brought out on rainy days can rival.
Hero is tie advantage Of q fountain
pen or . half dozen sbarpened pencils,
OF which you cannot very easily lose all.
Your journal may be no sort Of use to
anybody else, but it win always be Of
value TO yo1ref.-Edward Everett Hale
In Boston Commonwealth