The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-06-30

lhey are so genuine
When Baedeker has ceased To
be volume of thrilling interest.
/, cathedrals no longer attract and
Iold masters become a bore. the
famous men and women of the
,lOld World found in the great
capitals like London and Paris or
the international watering places
like Homburg form a university
on higher order and with more
varied instruction than all the
summer schools put together.
The man or woman who works
ln intellectual pursuits, whether
professional of business, letters
Tor education, ten months of the
year, finds at the end of that
tune an unaccountable feeling of
flag and weariness and wonders
if he or she is falling; but on re-
turning from such a trip as |
have described. with the rest of
the sea both ways, life is found
to be still full of JOY and hope:
Ilnsoluble problems solve them
selves; the speech one thought
he could never make bubbles up
and out with scarcely an effort:
the pen which dragged and blur
red and Dlotted the page moves
automatically as if under the con-
troll of an electric current. and
the hostile conditions which filed
one with despair are easily re-
versed.
To return to our original pro-
position. the person who has been
lopsided, angular, with impaired
vision and weakened forces from
excessive travel in a rut. comes
back from such an outing as
have described with all brain
cells available and i'm normal con-
dition to do his best with such
powers as God has given amid
such opportunities as are his.
No American who enjoys the
life and rushing tide of our
country could live permanently
abroad, but in his vacation con-
dltions there make Europe a
delightful sanitarium. 1t will be
many generations before our
men or even professional
people and those in the higher
walks of finance and commerce
can reach the restfulness of Eu-
ropean life.
Even Philadelphia would get
On the nerves of an English law
yer, statesman, banker manu-
facturer or professional man :
1t is just this calm prevailing :
n and about English society W
which gives opportunity and zest io
md relish for the discussion of 4
he latest novel. the speech i'm in
'arliament. the new scientific W
discovery. the author is his first Il
uccesS, the newest beauty. iii
Americans read with envy and
Wonder the autobiographies
which are constantly coming out
n the English and Continental A
,ress. so largely made up of con- =,
in which the writer =,
'artook or listened. Conversa- ~
ion is still in foreign circles not 81
n art, but a habit The lawyer -
as no case, the business man no ri
roblem which he carries into -
he drawing-room or to the din ~
er table. or
Men and women are deeply in nc
crested and thoroughly informed -
n internal and international par On
les; questions of party success, cp
the motives of party leaders, 20
the speech of the rising young o.
tatesman and hope of his organ 40
alton, of foreign policies and nj,
le motives of foreign diplomats :"
nd rulers and the possibility of ~
and wars and what -,
ould honorably make for peace nj
nd whether it is necessary TO be =,
lady to fight, are all ripe topics. ,-o
In other circles are brilliant or 10
least interesting discourses ~
pom the opera or the play or the =
ader in the newspaper or books
/ authors. G
These conversations are quite
ten enlivened by personal anec-
tie and contributions of historic on
lportance concerning measures cet
ID motives which have leaked po'
1t from Cabinet meetings or frc
lrly conferences. WI
We all know how different it ~
with us, where the intense alb ne
'rption of every faculty upon CiC
le main chance makes stock COS
rokers consort with their GUS TIN
mers and lawyers with their WIZ
tents and the trader with their Sel
ke, to burden each other by SKY
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