Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-23
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
SOUVENIRS OF TRAVEL.
How to Collect and Arrange Them
Flowers From Noted Places.

1t has been observed that the least
acquisitive of people begin before they
have finished European tour to
ovince SEINE symptoms of the DISPOSE
ton of a collector" And not with
out reason. Recollections are large
part of the pleasure to which foreign
travel gives rise, and recollectionS are
revived or perpetuated by the posses
sion of articles which the traveller col
lects. Costly articles which are to be
rarely used are not so good as memen-
tos as those things which are allowed
to be often in sight.
My dear" said a woman to her
husband, as they were about leaving
Paris. before we go wish you would
fetch me 4 button-hook for my gloves.
You can get it across the street"
But her husband replied: If you
don't really need it this morning We
will reserve that for Dijon-just the
town for such an errand."
At Dion, therefore. they went to Il
little cutters shop and as they ar-
preached it across the square, they
We're informed by an inscription on a
black marble tablet that in this house
Bossuet was born. Everything here
was as bright and shining as u new
knife blade. a pretty French girl
showed the wares. and gossiped cheer
lily on. during the momentous process
of selecting q button-hoo in BoSsuet's
house.
An old and experienced traveller,
who understood well the secret of
pleasant associations. once said that
his principal preparation for going
abroad consisted in using up and Civ
ing away his American things" 50
that he might begin to supply himsel!
anew as he Travelled on the other side
When he came home il was with q
sole-leather trunk that reminded him
of Liverpool, an umbrella. that spread
the brilliant panorama of Regent-St., q
hat that always made him think of the
Boulevard des Italiennes when he
looked into it as he put it on, 4 watch
that spoke of Switzerland at every
tick. q cane that he had cut in the
Tyrol. a pocketboOk of Russian leath-
or from Vienna. and pair of specta-
cles from Berlin.
Many people regret as they draw
near the close of their tour that they
have not preserved more mementos,
This is often the case with those who
travel rapidly and who consequently
find their impressions becoming con-
fused and inexact. Photographs of
the scenes visited can. in some degree
at least. be supplied on the travellers
return to Paris or London or New
York. But half the value of the pict-
ure is dependent on the remembrance
that you bought it on the spot or
picked it out as the best from among
the various celebrated shops.
One who keeps a journal will find it
easy TO add much interest to it by in
serting pictures of the places visited:
but those who do not wish to write at
all will find it interesting to keep a
scrap book. Put in bill of fare from
the steamer table. for example; the
program of the great musical festi-
val you attended: the cards of friends
who called on you in London; the picts
ures of the hotels you stopped at, cut
from the top of their bills: the little
sample of silk that you saw woven
with your own eyes in Lyons: the
passport YOU carried: the card that
admitted you to the ambassadors ball.
These. and thousand other things,
have each their own story. And when
you have stuck them intoa volume, and
put in, as a fronts piece. bit off map
cut out of an old "Bradshaw,' and
marked your route plainly on it with
a colored pencil, you have made his
tory Of your voyage without writing
word.
Perhaps the prettiest books of this
sort are the albums Of pressed flowers