Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-10

a late supper, he could intensity his
sensations most realistically by taking
his stand near the ventilating funnel
which brings up doors from the cooks
galley. When pacing the deck palleI
upon his fancy he could repair TO the
smoking room and play a game of
cards with a friendly and insinuating
Stranger-lt being, Of course, a rule of
the management that money lost by it's
patrons can be recovered before quit
ting the ship, and the gamblers in dis
guiSe being merely experts engaged to
give the visitors the temporary excite
ment of seeing years income dis
appear at single sitting When seven
bells sounded and Jones concluded to
go below he could tack down the com
paniOnway, lay his course for his state
room, order bit of biscuit and
bottle of Bass, don't-you-know, turn in,
and be lulled to slumbe" by a phono-
graph equipped to emf, a muffled din
of electric bells and shouts for the
steward, together with an occasional
creak of rudder chain. If such
program would not give him all the
distinctive experiences of sea voyage
what would2
After two or three nights spent in
this way Jones may have enough Of the
ocean and would prefer to have a
| little sightseeing for a change Max
| ing his way the next evening to an
other part of the same establishment
he could hire a courier and be taken
through five miles of French picture
| gallery and a mile and half of Italian
Cathedral-all imitation, of course, but
just as good for the purposes of the
hurried tourist, who, as rule, does
this and ''skips" that according to a
prearranged timetable, and whose
"reminiscences consist chiefly of COM
parsons of his own industry with the
collapse of other tourists trying to
cover the same space in the same
time
No real tour of the old world is com
plete without cutting your Irish loaf
with your own knife, spreading the
slices with unsalted butter, and eating
the combination within sight of Killar-
nay's fair lakes, or consuming goat s
milk cheese in the Alps and honey in
southern Germany. But Jones might
have these pleasures, too, in the do
Europe hile-you-wait. There is nc
Wand served to travellers abroad which
cannot be duplicated here. The man
ager could provide room in the style
of a Swiss monastery garb and the na
dressed in monastery garb and
in Burmese French; while ]
few yards farther on might be
painted garden with an out
look on the Rhine at Bingen ant
Bishop Hatto's tower in the distance
where repasts in the style of tn.
fatherland could be obtained followed
: by cigars of artificial tobacco All tina
would be necessary to complete the il
fusion in either instance would be
i few supernumeraries to chatter cheer
t fully over their play of knife and forl
3 while the American guests were so
: EMMY and silently absorbing nourisl
Il ment.
f Does not this open vista of mas
n nificent possibilities for some manage
|. OF taste and discretion? Travel will
; out discomfort, sightseeing at SO pc
s cent. discount, all the recreations G
S a foreign tour without interfering wit
o a single days business down tow
# What coud be more ideal in theory c
Il practical in application.-Wa
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