The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-03
TIE WAY TO GO SIGHTSEEING.


a." VI" 'h''''l"N' NAN'" ''s 'hSh "
His Experience.
For sightseers l will lay down two OF
three rules which have guided me more
and more in my habits of travelling, and
for which ! think there is good founda.
ton:
If you will stay two or three daysin one
place Jon will get that sort of affection
for it and knowledge of its interior life,
if II may use sc large II phrase, which
makes you always remember it with
pleasure. If. 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 little trials which neces-
sarily belong to the first hours in an inn
or a lodging house, and before these lit
tie ~annoyanceS are well over you have
gone on your way again.
My experience is that | have very little
recollection of any sort of places where
l have simply spent Il night or a part Of
"A day, and that for 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 IL little while where YOU are
well 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 a home.
hold that no man should travel with
the mere idea of being amused. He has
no right to walk into Il town or an inn
and say to the first person he meets
there, Come and muse me: show me
what there is which is entcrtaining.'
Wherever Il nan 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 l 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 a little amazed when | go by
chance into Il 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
i'll the academy at New York or the art
gallery in Boston. l cannot see why we
should all be compelled to see paintings
in Europe, and in every city in Europe.
when at home we donut consider the ex-
animation of paintings to be our prin ii
pal and especial business. | like to see
II good picture, | think. as much as any
does, But cannot understand
why the profession of a traveller and
that Of n c%onnoissrur in art should be
considered, as certainly they are consid-
cred, as being very much the same thing.
/ do not believe, as / say, that Il per-
gains qualifications for an art critic
by the accident of his crossing the ocean.
To young travellers | am forever say
Keep sc~rapbooks.' They are even
better than journals. by which ] mean.
preserve little queer bits of printed in
which will come drifting into
your hands every day. and which in
after years VII have a value from ASSOC
which of curse does not attach
them, and by the same token what
is written at til, moment has Il
freshness asft-rward which no recollcc-
ton brought out OF rainy days can rival.
is tie advantage of Il fountain
pen or a half dozen sharpenod pencils,
Of which you cannot very easily lose all.
Your journal may lie no sort of use to
Else, but it will always be of
to yoLrself.-Edward Everett Hale
N Boston Commonwealth.