The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-19

the other side, now so commonly sub
stituted for the old summer vacation /
at some watering place, where one sim
ply repeats in a very inconvenient and /
style the laboTious pleasures of I
the winter in a great city.
And just by way of parenthesis, let
me commend the new fashion to all my
compatriots who have not yet tried 1t
and who have the means to do so.
suppose no individual can spend a
season at Long Branch, Newport, Sara
toga and the White mountains for less
than a thousand dollars, and of course
there are opportunities for spending con-
siderably more if one is so inclined and
has it to spend. | do not address the
larger class who, as | am Informed,
manage to incur charges of thousand
dollars or over and get away without
paving them. If there are any such
persons among my readers, cannot adj
wise them to ''go across" instead of pat
ronizing trustful and aimable landlords
at home, for the simple reason that they
could not dOit. A Cunard tickets cash
article, and the wandering American
abroad must pay as he goes, and If he
does not disguise his nationality must
pay about double the price French
man or German would be charged.
| In fact, the American abroad or, as
one might say from the European land
lord standpoint, the American innocents
abroad have almost supplanted the Eng
| lishman, who used to be the type Of
wealthy folly and ignorance of the value
| of money. To be sure, a great many
| Europeans of the landlord class confuse
| the two nationalities and call all Eng
lish speaking people "Milor Anglais,
without needing the exact meridian
whence they spring. The golden goose
is as valuable if it come across the high
seas or only across the narrow seas, and
is as sure to scatter its golden eggs with
careless prOf1sion in the one case as the
other. But like the goose, my OWL
proper goose quill is wandering from Its
subject, and that subject is the recon-
mending you, my dear reader, to spent
your next spare thousand dollars IN get
ting at least cursory view of the Older
countries, which Of course, we all agree
are not half so good as ours, but still
have merits Of their own worth few
weeks study at least
If you intend to travel cit prince, rid
in first class carriages, stay at first class
or rather at fashionable, hotels, Dn.
everything you see, move about iron
place to place like the restless and ene1
getic American you are, the thousan
dollars won't last many weeks, and yo
will 90 well 10 put aside hundred do
lars with your return ticket SO that Whe
vour last bill at Meurices is rendered
and Your hair stifTens in horror upo
Your head. ana your careful trenc
completely fails to convey Your sense {
INDIGNATION and establishment, you ma
still have the means Of getting home,
sadde1 but much wiser man tna
when you left ii.
If, however, YOU have the wisdom
accept the experience of those who b
!. fore YOU have done the grand tour
, as it used to be called, and have then
selves been done charmingly brown
the money gamers Of foreign lands,
YOU will read, mark and inwardly diSe
the warnings and the advice so pleni
fully printed i'll books, and now on
more proffered for your considerable
you may make your thousand dolla
spread over many months, and perha
year, including of course the passag
! across the Atlantic.
In fact, | know u gentleman VIII
wishing to pursue certain studies IN Il
cathedral cities of England, went thel
staid Il year, and returned, all upt
$500; but it is not everybody who cou
or who would care TO do as much
this, but mention it to show what m
be done by a man devoted to his art a.
careless of his bodily comfort. b
I. upon the basis Of $1,000 Il great dc
NAV be seen and done and enjoyed.
In the first place, the second saloon
a large ocean steamer is perfectly CO.
Portable and respectable, and | ha
I'M known many persons of larger brai
than purses who have taken their til
cts intermediate and survived to t
the tale with great satisfaction, notal
Clergyman Of my acquaintance whC
royalty has been pleased to honor VIII
7 once he had arrived in England, a
who is always recommending his frieI
to go and do likewise. Then, havi
ISdCutu L
II according to which line you selec
~ and here | will mention that
~ German IS the cheapest, the Fren
most amusing and the English
IS most luxurious-your first business Is
70 find lodgings and get yourself out of
GS hotel whittier you at first natura
make your way, unless, indeed, you hf
been provident enough to ask so
friend of experience to recommend J
j.. to a good lodging, and to make a
gain for your time there. Then +
out what is TO be seen and discover h
ko much of it is within walking distan
Don't employ TdletS dc place or cicero
if YOU want TO save both your mol
and YOUR temper, but employ your Z
. ish tongue Of you are in England ;
your American wits, which are at L
as keen as those Of any other matt
: a!its;yf
If Won use carriages find ont the pro
and legal charge and have 1t clea
understood before you start. ION
niggardly in giving tips here
there, for the custom abroad Is so
versal that you only lay yourself O
to insult and neglect by ignoring 1t,
it is not necessary to be lavish i'll
matter 4 shilling-that is 10 -
~ quarter of a dollar in our money;
- fes large proportion OF the h
leeches who cry Give. give II ~
turn.