The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31

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ADELAIDE GORDON.
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TO TRAVEL widely and TO travel
well a more complete equipment
is required than a mere supply Of
ready money, a facility IN reading time
tables, and a knowledge Of the cor
tents Of the best guide books. Tt is the
manner that makes the good traveller.
To have at your command a thoroughly
agreeable code of etiquette when cast
among strangers in a strange land is
q more delightful desideratum than am
ple funds or an accomplished courier.
BY this I mean that you must know
not only how to render yourself per-
soma grata wherever and whenever you
undertake an expedition. but you should
also understand and freely exercise the
art Of Inspiring the plea santest TeIa-
tions between yourself and your fellow
travellers. Carried to its really finest
point of perfection this is the art Of
showing Consideration and exacting it
iE return.
A Policy That Pays.
Now this is not pure altruis1 or
mere etiquette. The advice ] have Just
set down / enthusiastically recommend
because, If followed, il is always and
ever the best policy. II pays. and fur
thermOre il makes for individual COM
fort and good cheer 1t also expedites
the business of moving from point TO
point and applies invaluable oil 10 the
wheels of the tourists ever changing
social conditions.
The standing wonder and the ever
lasting pity is that so few good men
and true (and women also) seem 20
appreciate how nightly important a
genuinely effective manner is 10 every
traveller be he Commuter or globe trOt-
Ter. I know, and we all know. the peo-
pie who go on the grand tour Of Eu-
rope for an hours run by rail ana have
miserable time every inch Of the way.
They return from abroad without any
w hOlesOme enthusiasms or merely with
a distressing tale Of woe, There was
time, money, health, and good weather
at their disposal. but they not only sue
Cceded in missing all the pleasures Of
the trip. but somehow they showed
positive genius FOR falling into difficult
Ties. Nothing went quite right any
late, hotels expensive, sights not worth
the seeing. II. on hearing the story Of
their Affections you are inclined 10 be
lieve that they were the victims of bad
luck just disabuse your mind Of that
suspicion.
The chances stand ten TO one that the
fault lay right in the traveleRS them
selves. They were most probably un
aware than an exquisite pouteness viii
very often go further and buy more
than petty cash, that amiable COM
pIaisance Is far better than standing
on your rights and that good natuTed
common sense VIII gain admittanCe
where big tips and naughty demands
utterly fail
The Practical Philosophy.
IF you wish to travel IN the best way,
that is TO say, with the least friction
and with a view to extracting every bit
OF possible pleasure from the OppOrtuni
ties that present themselves, utilize all
the practical phiiosophy you can COM
mand. It's exercise Is sure 10 render
you doubly attractive and successful.
BY this I mean the philosophy that
brings you smiling through the storm
and stress of real difficulties and the
thousand and one small disasters that
are bound 10 lie in your path. IL is
good nature so long as the luck is quite
10 your liking. bur the test of temper,
breeding aIfd good sense Is made when
TIE train is lost or the motor car
breaks down, the dining car is missing,
luggage gone astray, or none but the
most inferior hotel acc0mmoda tons are
TO be hal and the table d'hote proves
to be q delusi0n of good cookery and a
snare 10 your digestion
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the common sense and well bred COM
posure by which you endure inc0nven-
isnces. accept delays and greet disap-
pointments You prove whether. You
are an accomplished traveller by the
bland resignation displayed i'm the mo-
ment when your hopes and YOUR pa
thence are both greatly tried, and you
prove just the reverse by falling TO
meet difficulties and discouragements
with the bold, easy smile Of the philos-
opher
The practically philosophical travel
or never frets, and storms, ard RACES
with undigniied futility at fate and
erring human nature When mistake
has been made he wastes no tinae in
furiously fixing the blame bat COM
posedly tries To find the best and quick
est way out of the tangle. He realizes
that help and sympathy come 20 those
that help themselves and that it IS
both. exhausting and short sighted to
give way TO nerves and irritation
An Heroic Bride.
Il was Just such an ideal traveller that
7 once met ian the person of q bTiCs-
She WAS on her wedding tour and with
her husband was asked TO stop ovar "A
few days at the country home of some
wealthy and fashionable folk In the
p distinguished belle and beauty who
was also guest at the same house and
in whose honor a pig dinner party was
TO be given the evening of her arrival.
As fate would have IL though, the
trunks failed 10 arrive with the ladies.
They both kept their rooms until DIM
ner time. hoping against Hope for the
laggard luggage Then the bride rose
herOiCally TO the occasion. She brushed
very carefully her plain dark travel
inE frock. did her hair anew. and went
down 10 the grand feast as sereuely az
though arfayed ia the most effective Of
her trousseaus gowns.
Not 50 the belle. She sent down eX-
cuses instead, wept angrily oVec the
absence of her fnery. and ate a chop
and ices in the solitude Of her own
chamber. The bride went in on the
arm &c the host who toasted her as
most charming and considerate guest
and the choicest companion for bridal
or any ether tcur as ia her momenS of 3
adversely
she WIS., unerTiDgiy aware tina he
agreeable traveller always knows how
to accept q situation. When heD> fus
bands touring automobile broke down
on a driggling afternoon. five mines
from town. she smilingly picked up
the hem Of her gown and stepped of he
distance without any expression OF IL
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