The Washington times., 1914-03-15
Bade Adieu to Sheep Raising
Mining, and Several
Other Jobs.
By GARDNER MACK.

Farewell touring would be a mos
enjoyable pastime if it were not fol
the fact that it breaks so into the
evenings of busy life. This re.
mark goes double-for the tourist
1t means an endless procession Of
working days, long after the whistle
had blown on presumably success.
full career. And the patron of such
things is called upon to smile pleas
antly and reminiscently through a
series of anti-climaxes that are as
exhausting as they are exhaustive.
This, Of course, does not refer to
professional farewell tourists
though, even with them, the effect
on the person, who puts up the time
and half in cash that pays for the
overtime in labor, is that of attend
ing innumerable funerals of depart
ed hopes where the corpse of a great
reputation spoils the picture by re-
spending to to many encores.
Serious Business of Life.
If, therefore, a person awakes in
the glad morning of what promises
TO be busy life and is greeted by
the vision of a highly successful
career, joyously wagging a long tail
Of farewell tours-and if this per-
son Is fairly sensible, far seeing
individual-isn't it showing wonder
full judgment and deep sympathy for
all human kind, for him to start the
farewell tour stunt first and have it
over before he begins what a regu-
lar, union biographer would call the
serious business of earning his liv-
ing?
Without pausing an instant to
hear the chorus of glad affirmation
which will undoubtedly greet this re-
mark, we direct attention slightly to
the right of this column. There we
find the countenance of a gentleman
which, despite all that Felix Maho-
ney could do to It, still preserves
that classic purity which results
from visualizing for public benefit
the romantic characters of inspired
dramatic poets-not to mention the
effect the copious and continuous
use of grease paint may have had
upon it.
Introducing Mr.. Terriss.
And in thus introducing Thomas
Terriss to an audience that by this
time is painting to know what this
is all about, ! do not do so because
he is an actor-rather in spite of it
but because he is the only man it
has ever been my fortune to meet,
who started life with a series of
farewell tours, that included every
section Of the civilized globe and
some sections that were not SO
dinged civilized that it had an ap-
preciable effect on them. I didn't
use I'VE" in the foregoing sentence,
because don't know anything about
the kind of people Mahoney has met.
Hc once went on a Cooks tour
through Paris and you never can
tell about a person who'd do a thing
like that.
But Tom Terriss got a toe hold
on the forelock Of time-or was it
fetlock ?-and did all his farewell
touring at the beginning rather than
the end of his career. He and I
have both been on the front porch
of the Gale Face Hotel, at Colombo,
Ceylon, and looked out upon the
shimmering, phosphorescent Indian |
ocean on a pleasant April evening,
and both Of US have made a VOW to |
spend the October of our lives in |
the same identical place doing the
same identical thing without a |
chance that the spectre Of a fare
we'll tour will loom up in the middle !
distance.
When Terriss embarked on his !
career as a farewell tourist so early /
IN life, he showed the first faint |
traces of that touch of originality |
which has distinguished his family. |
His father, the late William Ter