The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-07-12
seeins Europe Well.

Those sound hearted Americans who
are dlnglng into the ears OF would
bc tourists from these shores to the
old world the advantages. 10 say moth
Ing OF the patriotic obligation, OF seeing
America first have cornsred a capital
argument Unfortunately for those
sileny interested the argument VIII 20
largely UNDECIDED. A trip TO Europe
,trlkes 4 multitude OF people AS the
proper caper at some time OF their
lives, and when Harry and Jane catch
the fever there's simply no stopping
them II they have the price. All they
ask TO see OF America for the time be-
ing is her receding coast line.
So. granted that crowds OF people are
booked for the trip who, whether they
admit It or not. cant be worse on for
advice from heads as clear to start
with as their own. heads, too, that have
been over the course at least once.
timely word may be ventured Just De
cause IL has the opposite ring to the
fatty rejected ''see America hrst'
The word is, see America first, last or
not at all. as you choose, but II you see
Europe at all see what you do see well
Now, a trip across the Atlantic Is worth
while. worth treasuring In the memory
OF the born and bred landsman or
landswoman. That's an ocean voyage.
II II bites In upon London or Paris for
days sightseeing this Is merely a
run over TO London or Paris and leaves
Europe virtually out Of the programme.
/ Just as there are Americans who de-
| clare that New York IL America there
are Englishmen who insist among
themselves and still more vehemently
before greenhorns that London Ii all
England. likewise Frenchmen to con-
tend that Paris Ia France, and 10 on
for all the star capitals Of the CONT
nent An old city In an old country 10
a sight for a lifetime America cannot
produce It. But London. Paris, Rome,
Berlin and Vienna combined are not
Europe, nor Is Europe TO be taken In
from the deck OF a Rhine steamer OF
the veranda OF swell tourists hotel
In fact, In all the Travelled ruts dor.
ing season the sights that force them
selves most on the tourist are not
European sights-not Europe AZ II
grows up, Of and for itself, but Eu
rope posed for show. Most Of the PEG
ole seen are outsiders. dressed 10 near
" alike and acting 40 much alike that
one cannot even study na,ionnlities un
less familiar with many languages. In
fact. there Is In Europe a tourists
! world no big that the unlnltiated car
drop into It and noat along I'LL The
J time In up and never see real Europe
at all, although Its area Is pretty thor
oughly covered.
II Ia true, as Pope says, that The
proper study OF mankind IA man." bu
TO study crowds In rush for pleasur'
Is merely to view humanity In the sb
stract. In this respect all peoples arr
much alike. and one can as well stud!
| cosmopolitan gathering In the throng
Of an American metropolis as any
where else. To study man in Europ'
as be lives now and has lived for gen
erations. to realize what be In a
home and why his society exists as
does and persists AZ Il does, a societ.
20 radically different from our own
re, contemporary with It. this Is ZOO
: worth going far to secure. II broaden
ones outlook. leads to ccntsntment .
new ambitions. to q determination .
. make America Just the best place po'
: able to live In and the better wort
seeing as the years 90 by.