The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-01
TO PREPARE FOR PARIS
WHAT To READ BEFORE YOU GO
TO THE FAIR.

How to Add Wonderfully to the In
terest and Value Of the Trip-one
of the Best Methods of Cu!tivating
the Memory.
Are you going Ia the Paris Expo
sition?" asks Margaret E. Caldwell in
the April st. Nicholas; and assuming
that you are and that you are girl,
she gives you some useful hints.
All 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 go. To these,
and especially to such of them as have
Travelled a little, few suggestions
may prove helpful.
Do your looking up and reading
now, while you are at home and have
the time. But if not used to solid
reading, do not plunge boldly into a
French history that goes back beyond
the days of Charlmagne, and then
feel sad and discouraged when you
discover that you cannot remember
the names and dates.
Read the story books of travel. But
read them intelligently. When you
see in one something about poor
Marie Louise, whose history was one
of life's riddles" if you do not know
why her history was one of lifes rid
dies look it up. Find out all that you
can about her strange career.
When you read something about
Marie AntGinette'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 Marie Antoin-
cite herself. Are you familiar enough
with her story to make your visit to
the Tuileries a double pleasure be-
cause you can in fancy, people it, as
you walk, with the gay throng who
once made history there?
Unless you know the story of the
people 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 life-stories
of Frances famous people, or about
the places where the history was
made or the lives lived, will find that
her knowledge has added wonderfully
to her enjoyment of the trip.
And now for another suggestion.
Cultivate the habit of observation. II
you are weak in this, begin today to
develop your powers. Many persons
came back from the Worlds Fair at
Chicago with their minds all con-
fused tumble. Ask them what thew
saw, and they would invariably reply,
oh | saw so much that really can't
remember any one thing" The OBJ
jects that they saw made on their
brains no more lasting impression
than on the retina of their eyes They
knew that they had a lovely time"
and often were "dreadfully tired" and
that their 'hotel was bad" and. ap-
parently, that was nearly all that they
did know. Not being used to obsery.
ing, they had seen so much that they
were not able to assimilate ANYTHING.
Many people go through picture gal
leries in the same blind way They
see so many pictures that no single
one impresses them sufficiently to
take its place on "memorys WALL"
Make up your mind that you will no
tice well. Make up your mind that
you will remember the best of what
you see.
The girl who goes to the Paris Elk
position leaving no one behind for
whose benefit she is sightseeing, is
poor indeed. 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 trip,
too. If you have such a friend, and
If you think of her when you see any,
thing 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.