New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-15

TO pass this way again. And no matter
how Thoroughly YOU read your guide book,
how systematically YOU view the things
which must be seen on your return home
some stay-at-h0me busybody Of the For
eign Travel club viii be sure 20 ask YOU
about something o. other that you have
never heard Of, out which she has gotten
into her head Is the most worth while
thing in all Europe; the one thing she
would elect 10 see should she ever oe en-
dowed with the chance that you seem TO
have tossed aside so lightly. 7 have
reached the point where Il people ask me
Il I saw some particular. loved object Of
their fancy 7 say Yes. indeed. vouIdn Z
have missed II for worlds, and then pro-
coed 20 talk about something else. the
sbominable way our United States customs
are conducted. for example. which tender
topic never fails 70 awake a thrill OF hor-
ror IN the hearts ~ even the Foreign
Travel Club
It is unaccountable the prestige that
people who have travelled enjoy from the
folks who have not have noticed that
II I start a narrative. When 7 was in
Baden Baden or perhaps, The second
night we spent IN Paris everybody pres
ent VIII sit Up and take notice. whereas
II T told the same trivial little episode
beginning. 1t was just after we moved
from Yonkers 10 Englewood.' no one would
pay any attention TO me al all
After all the greatest Joy OF travelling
consists in afterward being able 10 an
. nounce calmly that one has been there;
and OF this fact the hotel tags they plaster
. prima facie evidence No matter how YOU
employed your time. so long as you have
/ been there, and. having returned. YOU can
subsequently pose as a woman of the
world
Il was much concerned when We started
on our tour 70 discover that labels per
sistently refused % stick on my suitcase.
which was Of the light. straw variety.
French. German, Hungarian and Italian,
every sort Of label detached itself gently
and futtered away In the breeze. despite
the best concentrated efforts OF hotel port
ers. remember rejecting peevishly that
] cCullh see no use IN travelling through
Europe. anyway; no one would ever be-
lieve 7 had done II, when I returned with
out a single label with envy / eyed the
suitcase Of my travelling companion. which
was a stout leather affair plastered thick
with stickers Of every imaginable color.
THE night before we sailed for home.
however CHANGING into the bedroom Of
my friend. / found her actively engaged
IN the gentle task OF removing said labels
by means Of the hot water vouchsafed by
the hotel management for bathing pur-
poses AS I watched her 7 seemed 10 re-
call that ] had once heard a lady " al
most superintendent remark that no one
really nice desired her baggage smeared
W with colOred pastors
AT length. torn by conflicting emotions,
] broke the silence and generously com
meuded my companion retiring nature.
" Nonsense ' she CALCULATED. removing
with triumph the last vestigc Of "a gaudy
Hotel de Europe tag. u ID taking these
things of so that II we meet any nice
people on the steamer they won't have 90
know the cheap hotels we ve put up a."
Which only proved 20 me that J had yet
something % learn concerning tourist snob-
berry"