Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-07-15
SAYS HE NEEDS REST.
cHAUNcEY pEPEW STARTS ON A
 SHORT TRIP TO EUROPE.

How He Spends His Time on Board
 steamer-why He Likes Visiting Lon-
 don-win Not Spend Any Time on the
 Continent This Trip.
 Dr. Chauncey NJ. Depew, who sailed for Europe on the American steamship St. Paul, sat at his desk the other night observing the scriptural injunction and putting his affairs in order preparatory to long journey.
 T am going to Europe, he said, to do the regular thing. I have found that after about ten months, working, say, from 8 o'clock in the morning until II or 12 at night, mans headpieee be- gins to kick and ceases to do for him the things required of it in the way his best judgment deems that it should. It goes on strike, that's about the amount of it. There are just two ways to deal with strikes; ono is to crush them out, the other is to compromise. Crushing out ones headpiece is likely to have 8 serious result. But headpiece is al- ways a reasonable organization, and the better way is to give it needed rest
 That has been my experience for several years. I can work for just about ten months IS hours a day, and then I've got to quit and make 8 fresh start.
 ''I set off for Europe usually after having been unable to sleep much-for several weeks-not more than or 5 hours, anyway. go aboard the steamer, and for six days I sleep l 6 or IS hours. I sleep from 9 till and from II till and from till G. And at the end of six days am fresh as daisy, ready to be- gin all over again.
 The world looks rosy. l am optimis- tic and ready to believe that the Repub- licans will sweep everything, and am always hoping to meet yet some charm ing young woman whom l shall deem the best and most fascinating person ill the world and who shall think the same of me.
 .'I go to London. The English are 8 hospitable people. They receive me kindly. An American is in his way, a sovereign, and he is received for what he is That's one advantage he has A European can only be received for what his father was An American can be re- eeived and he is received, for just what he is.
 "When you go over there. the English welcome you. They are not thinking, then, of any Venezuela trouble or Uruan incident or Bayard s speeches. They are ready to entertain you It is cabled over who is going across, and find awaiting me invitations to dinners and luncheons for two weeks ahead
 And there is one thing about life there that we don't have in New York. We would have it if New York was the political capital, as it is the real capital, of the country. The London invitations read, What day can you drive, or lunch, and whom would you like to meet?' The effect is to enable you to meet all the literary and military and political and scientific celebrities of the day You meet, you converse with them, and that is liberal education in itself. These dinners and lunches lead to oth- CTS, and ill about three weeks you find you have done all there is of London and met the notable people of all Eu- IOp6. u lS buls ludb IudhSS ALOutlOn WI1db it is-the capital of Europe.
 "Then you go to Paris for the bene- fit of the ladies of your family, to enable them to take the Paris cure, usually observable by you chiefly in your bills. You see most of the effect when you geC home in bills and large sleeves. From there you go to Homburg moi fO drink the waters
 T never had anything the matter with me in my life except rheumatism, and I can bring that on any time by working too hard. You needn't have rheumatism, though, if you eat and drink right Don't eat what you like and what you want to drink let alone, and you Il never have it.
 "No, l shan't go any farther than London, Paris and Homburg. I've done Baedeker and the cathedrals When Paris sets the fashions for Japan and Lii Hung Chang gets his coffin made by an English undertaken in Hongkong. there's no use in travelling around. It only amounts to riding about railway carriage.
 "There is one more thing want to say, " Dr. Depew went on, land l want to say it solemnly and sincerely and with all emphasis, and that is that l am not the father of the Republican gold plank. I do not wish to be one of the reputed fathers where the paternity ! is disputed by so many vigorous gentle men. New York Sun.