The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-12-10
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an VIA ihilOSnphrr Gives the Bunrft of
His Experience.
For sightserrs J will lay down two or
three rules which have guided NE more
and more in my habits Of travelling. and
for which thin; there is good fuunda-
tion
If you will stay two or three days in one
place you will get that sort of affection
for II and knowledge Of its interior life,
If one may use so large II phrase. which
makes You always remember it with
pleasure. Il, on the other hand. YOU
should spend the same three days in
going to three different plncss you have
in each Of them only the annoyance Of
dropping your anchor and pulling it MP
again, only the little trials which neces-
sarily belong to the first hours in an inn
OF lodging house, and before these lit
tie annoyauces are well over yuu have
gone on your way again.
Ny experience is that have very little
recollection of any sort Of places where
| have simply spent night or n part Of
] a day. and that Tor filling up that great
fund Of experience and memories the
maintenance of which is the great object
of travelling it is always desirable to re-
main for a little while where you are
we'll off, that you may become acquaint-
ed not simply with the circumstances
but with the real character Of what in a
certain way you may Thus make home.
( hold that no man should travel with
the mere idoa Of being amused He has
no right TO walk into town or an inn
and say to the first person he meets
there, Come aud smuse me: show me
what there is which is entertaining"
Wherever 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, | 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 picture gallery in Paris,
in Brussels, or in Antwerp. TO find there
some well to do Americans whom l
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 he compelled TO see paintings
in Europe. and in every city in Europe,
when at home we donot consider the ex-
animation of paintings to be our prin Vi
pal and especial business, like to,sre
a good picture, think. as much asany-
body does. But | cannot understand
why the profession of traveller and
that of a connoisseur in art should be
considered, as certainly they,are consid-
cred, as beingvery much the same thing.
So do not believe, AS 1 say. that per
son gains qualifications for an art critic
Eby the accident of his crossing the ocean.
To young travellers am forever say
ing. Keep scrapbooks." They arc even
better than journals. by'which | mean,
preserve littlo queer bits of printed in
formation which will come drifting into
your hands livery day, and which in
after years VIII have value from asso-
citation which of course does not attach
to them, and 3y the same token what
ever is written at tn, moment has u
freshness aft.iward which no. recollcc-
tion brought ont on rainy days can rival.
Here is tie advantage of "a fountain
pen or half dozen shsrpened pencils,
of which you rsnnot veryeasily lose all.
Your journal may be no.sort of use TO
anybody els, hut it will always be of
value to your elf. Edward Everett Hale
in Boston Commonwealth.