Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
CROSSING THE POND.
Is Everybody Going Over to Europe
This Summer.

From the New York Herald.
The crowded condition of last Saturdays
fleet OF steamers which left New York for
European ports the numerous sallings
scheduled for this week. carrying every soul
than can be made room for on board. and
the heavy bookings for weeks and weeks
ahead almost make one feel that it VIII be
rather lonely here soon for the stay-at-
homes when everybodys neighbor has
made Off for the other side"
Is everybody going over TO Europe this
summer? 1t would seem so. What with
fast and luxurious ships. which make the
sea voyage rapid and provide every comfort
possible, and with national prosperity that
has given the people more spending money
for the holidays than ever before. IL looks
as though the American Invasion of Europe
this season was to be on a bigger scale than
In any previous summer.
OF course Mrs Moneybags and her charm
Ing and eligible daughters are sailing now.
They Will occupy later on old man Money
bags villa at Newport, but Ii Is the dictate
OF fashion that prior to the summer (and
matrimonial >campaign preliminary canter
over Europe is the thing. Besides, It
enables them to bring back the very latest
in costumes with which to worry other
women in their set even If the bills start
old Moneybags swearing for a week when he
has had look at them. Society" there
fore is taking its flight across the Atlantic
Just now. and evidently in greater numbers
than in any preceding May.
But villa owners at Newport, LenoN,
Tuxedo and other aristocratic centers are
not alone to provide the crowd OF tourists.
Cross-Roads-F Four Corners and Pumpkin
Center will furnish their quota and our
esteemed contemporary, the Cross Roads
Four-Corners Hawkeye, is but one of a
hundred wfdeawake country papers that
will point with PRIDE to the fact ''Our
fellow townsman. 81 Pritchard" the Hawk
eye Will say. dropped IN yesterday and ad-
mitted that he, Mrs. p. and his daughters,
Samanthy and Mary Jane, are going to Eu-
rope this summer as soon the ornate
wing on their cottage is rooted in. 81 al
ways was progressive"
Yes: ST Is progressive. He and men like
him are learning the vaiue-mental. physi-
cal and political-of foreign travel 1t
broadens ones views and IL fills many a gap
left by scant education. The sea voyage
and absolute change OF climate upbuild one
physically. And observation by Americans
of foreign peoples and conditions is of gem
eral benefit, especially in these days when
international questions concerning business
and diplomacy are frequently before the
people.
Many of those to whom a European trip
Is familiar regret that IN many places,
which they once liked to visit, back country
American tourists now swarm. They COM
plain, too, that the strident nasal twang
formerly confined to the neighborhood OF
rocking chairs on summer piazzas here now
smites the air of otherwise reposeful Euro
pean resorts. True the fact is unpleasant
to those who object to 1t, but Is IL not a
good thing educationally for the country
that the rocking chairs are abandoned oc-
casionally for a steamer ticket and look
taken at the world at large by those surely
most In need OF it's enlightening influence?
Americans are no longer combining their
summer jaunts to nearby neighborhoods.
They are visiting Europe by thousands and
tens of thousands and learning something
OF the old world They journeying to
the far west and becoming acquainted with
the scenic grandeur OF their own land They
are penetrating Canada and seeing the won
ders of the great northwest They are
studying Mexico and its relics OF a people
of the past. And all In all 1t composes
great educational force OF benefit to the
country at large.