Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-04-19
TO pREpaRE FOR PARIS.
what to Read Before You Go, and What
do When You Get There.

do When You Get There.
"Are You Going to the Paris Expo
sitiou?" asks Margaret Il. Caldwell in
the April st. Nicholas; and assuming
that YOU are and that you are a girl,
she gives you some useful hints.
Ali over the land, she says, young
girls are beginning to plan trip to the
Paris Exposition. BY means OF tourists
clubs, with their low rates and monthly
payments, many girls Of small means,
girls who earn their own living, will be
able to CO. To these, and especially to
such of them as have travelled little,
few suggestions may prove helpful.
Do your looking up and reading now,
while you are at homo and have the
time. But il not used to solid reading,
do not plunge boldly into a French his.
tory that goes back beyond the days Of
Cha, lemagno, and then feel sad and
discouraged when your discover that
you cannot remember the names and
dates.
Read the story. books of travel. But
read them intellieently. When you see
in one something about poor Marie
Louise, whose history was one of life's
riddles" If you do not knew why her
history was one of life's riddles, look
it up. Find out oil you can about
her strange career.
When you read something about
Marie Antoinette's Swiss cottage"
and the trouble that it caused, do you
not feel interested to know what the
trouble was, and why Swiss cottage
caused it? Then, about Mario Antoin-
cite herself. Are you familiar enough
with her story to make your visit to
the Tnileries IA double pleasure because
you can, in fancy, people IL, az you
walk, with the gay throng who once
made history there?
Unless you know the story Of the peo-
pie who made the, history Of these
places, you are seeing only wood and
stone: you are missing the best--the
vital, breathing part, the life. Every
girl who has clearly settled In her
mind any facts of French history, who
knows anything about the stories
of Frances famous People, OF about the
places whore the history was made or
the lives lived, will find that her knowl.
edge has added wonderfully to her en-.
joyment Of the trip.
And now for another suggestion. Cul.
tiSate the habit Of observation. If you
are weak in this, begin to-day to devotion
your powers. Many persons came back
from the Worlds Fair at Chicago with
their minds all confused tumble.
Ask them what they saw, and they would
invariably reply, "Oh, IL saw so much
that really can't remember any one
thing. The objects that they saw
made on their brains no more lasting
impression than OH the retiua OF their
eyes. They knew that they "had a
lovely time, and often were dread.
fully tired" and that their "hotel
was bad" and, apparently. that was
nearly all that they did know. Not
being used To observing, they had seen
SO much that they were not able to as.
simulate anything. Many people GO
through picture galleries 10 the same
bllEd way. They see SO many pictures
that no single one impresses them
sufficiently to take its place on "mem-
ory's wall" Make up your mind that
you will notice well. Make up your
mind that you win remember the best
of what you see.
The girl who goes to the Paris Expo
sition leaving no one behind for whose
benefit she is sightseeing, is poor In
deed. Surely each of you has some one
to whom you wish to write, to whom
you wish TO describe your trip SO well
that it will be her trim, too. If you
have such friend, and il you thirk Of
her when you see anything that
specially interests you, and If you say,
Now / will tell her about this-she
will enjoy it, !" you have found the best
method of cultivating the memory.