Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-12
THE TRAVELLERS LESSON.

THE TRAVELLERS lESSON.
One Of the pleasures of travelling Is
the making of new friends and ac-
.duaintances The man who stays at
home too long unconsciously grows
into the habit of looking. upon all
strangers as barbarians, when If he
would travel he would be surprised to
find that new acquaintance in far-oH
corners Of the world are just as choice
specimens of humanity as the very
dearest friends he has at home. Home
ties are among the most beautiful sem
tisnents known to men, but when other
considerations make a change OF home
necessary or desirable, thru the tears
of separation should shine the hope
Of new friends vet unseen. Experience
has taught that the world contains
good people in every locality. 1t is the
traveller away from home who learns
this lesson. and counts 1T among the
most profitable results OF his trip.
Such is the earnest soliloquy Of
Marshalltown man who recently jour-
neyed thru the Yellowstone National
Park. On the morning Of the second
day from home he awoke in the Pull
man car bound for Gardiner, the park
station. There were others in the car,
all strangers. A man and wife. who
afterwards proved to be residents of
Seattle, the man leading wholesale
and retail druggist of that city; anoth-
err man, a wood pulp manufacturer
from upper York state, with his wife
and her mother; man, wife and
brother from Philadelphia, and lady
with three grown daughters from New
York city. "Good morning. Going
thru the Park?' was the general greet
ing, and the common destination of all
made everyone acquainted almost be-
fore breakfast had been finished. For
six and eight days, thru the park these
people kept together and enjoyed one
another's company full as well as the
same sized party could possibly have
done had they all come from the
neighbors Of lifetime,s residence.
When the day for separation came, it
was with genuine regret that diverg-
ing pathways should take each in diff
ferent directions, and perhaps out OF
the sight of the other forever after
IN fha
night. these friends from two coasts
of a. great continent had spoken one
another and passed on with the pleas
ant discovery that the world contained
more nice people than one had ever
before realized.
And so it was on the morning after
arrival at the first Park hotel. long
days journel by coach was ahead. The
coach would accommodate eleven peo-
pie. A glance at the hotel register had
shown visitors registered from Aus
tralia, Ireland, England, Scotland, Aus
tria, South America, British Columbia
as well as from American cities in the
east, in South Carolina, Texas, the
Dakotas, the central states, and from
west of the Rockies. "Who will be our
nant question with all.
Out of such a convention of races
the MarshalltoWn man found himself
assigned to the coach with physician
and his wife from New Westminster
British Columbia; with a sun-brow,ned
but refined looking gentleman and his
wife and two small children from Chill.
South America, and with a Dakota
gentleman who formerly lived in Iowa.
journey began in silence, but when the
first wild deer was spied by the road
side Formally was broken. Converse
ton grew animated, introductions were
exchanged, and acquaintanceship fair
ly established.
And then the travellers lesson was
learned The Gillian used the most
natural kind of English, idioms slang
and ALL His wife looked as tho she
might have stepped from a New York
home but moment before. The facts
were, he was born of American parents
on Gillian soil, had been reared in
Chill but educated in the United
States, had married Philadelphia
college girl seven years before, had
taken her away to his home and large
milling interests in South America and
now they were on their way back to
her folks for the first time, with
two of the brightest imaginable kind
of American babies, aged and 5, as
accessories.
BY the evening of the second day out
the Marshalltown man knew his Chill
ian friend on intimate terms, had
learned enough about his far-off coun-
try to want to see it; on the third day