The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-29
THE PLANT OF A TRAVELLER
TIT IS NOTA PLEAS4NT THING TO BE
 BOSSED ABOUND.

Sitting Down in Philosophical Contempla-
 tiOn Is Not Possible When Your Best
 Beloveds Ape With You and Sending
 Questions to You at All Hours of the Day
 and Night.
 London, June 15, 1895.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER;
 There's deal of difference between
 travelling alone as master of your time
 and travelling with party who masters
 both you and your time. The fact that
 the party may be composed of some of
 your best beloveds doesn't alter the fact
 of your object and total servitude. Sit
 ting down for philosophical contempla-
 ton is impossible. There's no time
 everNfor bringing accumulated wisdom
 to bear upon the great political and eco-
 homie questions which are perturbing
 the crowned heads of Europe. The mo-
 ment you seize one of them your grip is
 broken by call to duty as escort to the Tower, to Westminster or to some other
 old show with which you have been fa-
 miliar from childhood, and which of
 your own motion you would no more
 think of revisiting than you would
 think of revisiting the Hartford state . house or the New Haven town pump;
 and you have got to do it pleasantly or the best beloveds will think you mean
 and nasty, and will take to pouting and
 the sulks. They may think they cam do sights all alone. But bless their little hearts, how quickly they come to grief when they try! You can't let them out of sight till every minute is laid out and paid for. Then the questions they ask; ito each one of which you must have ready satisfactory answer; one suffi- ciently plausible not to excite suspi- cion; one which will disclose the wis dom of asking 1t and fill their dear eyes with conscious pride at the profound thought which must have preceded the asking. For instance; in mid-ocean this question was put: Why are the waves on one side the ship larger than those on the other?" Isn't that poser? The ordinary man would reply: What nonsenser' and perhaps turn away with a gesture of scorn. But the man from the atmosphere of Prospect f1ill-though it be at present beclouded by useless sewers and threatened pest heuses-knows better. He begins by complimenting the party on the per spicuity displayed in observing the phenomena. He then proceeds to ex- plain that all particles of water are so united that impact upon one is impart- ed to all, and that the impact of so large a vessel proceeding at so high rate of speed acts, in spite of the buoy ancy of the vessel itself, as a species of prolonging breakwater, arresting the waves to windward and producing a species of calm to leeward This calm h0wever, is so slight that 1t can only be pGceived by very bright, keen. youth fu and lustrous eyes Then it will be about time to proceed to the Fiddle" | atd order Scotch with a split soda. There may be parties of beioyeds who | see orderly in their movements and log ital in their thinking and blaming; who | when they have determined to do a | thing, do it; who when tickets have | Tsen purchased for a certain place and | tie best rooms in the most expensive | htel in the place have been engaged, | and every arrangement has been made | sor starting, really go and do not sud denly Ereso1ve upon an entirely different plan of action. With such parties any body could get on beautifully. There would be no merit in escorting such | 1Io. UN show yourself true, self-sacrif1cing hero ydu want party that would set Job hovling mad; and that. when mur- der is tingling along the edge of your front teeth, looks up with round-eyed, and smiling surprise. The ex- ercise will undoubtedly strengthen character of some sort. You may be- comea sheep, but you will be a sheep of colossal self-control Questions of his tory, names and reigns of sovereigns, styl@ of architecture, &c, &c., you mus answer right off-hand. If you pause the hundredth part of second you are a gonner; for then suspicion vii be excited and reference may be male to books. Then where will you bel They don't care how their ques- tia1s are answered provided they are answered at once and at length. Never express an opinion or desire. If an opinion be asked give the one expected. Slhool yourself to desire the things de- sfed by the beloveds. You may be- csme a worm but you will enjoy peace and you won't turn. In spite of it all, { \ you manage well, you may occasion l lily find a. few moments of rest and sol Jude, and you will then know that nev- [ before have you half appreciated the eatitudes of being alone. Just now the eloveds are at breakfast and are being hliged to put their questions to one an thsry~ so that there is "a pause for re- dining a 0bit of Individuality. C All England is in state of mind over } tht Ghtalizada, second son of the Emir g If Afghanistan, who is visiting Eng ' and asl his fathers representative. s The En'ir was coming, but his pluck | rave oit. So he sent his son in his c Itead Feither the son, nor any one of V lis eighty companions speaks a word of T English nor can any Englishman, ex- o ,ept fw interpreters, speak or under o ltand Ia word of Afghanistanese. g to begin with More- e ,ver lhese chaps must do their own lC and cooking. They can't a at $ thing prepared by Christian II