Evening journal., 1914-11-12

one Of the citizens of America whom
the railroad is there TO serve and
administer to. You respond to this
attitude with a peace of mind ana
sense of security which completes
The pleasure of luxurious surround
ings, perfect appointments and
smooth track.
II surprises one who makes long
Journey for the first time to see how
swiftly and imperceptibly one feels
at home on cuch "a train. You settle
down into your seat in the Pullman,
take out the books and magazines
which you expect to want to read,
dispose of your luggage, adjust your
pillow, gaze out of the window and
wait You are sot waiting for any
thing; yon do not know YOU are
waiting. You wait much as Father
Time waits ON his cloud at the apex
of eternity. Somewhere, sometime,
( you will be through waiting, and VIII
have TO come to life again. Mean
while you wait.
All your troubles are forgotten.
/ They are more than forgotten They
never were and never will be. There
/ is no such thing as trouble. There
/ is nothing In the world but uphoi-
stored cushions all about you, food
/ preparing for you in the car ahead
and car behind awaiting your
pleasure to come and enjoy what 1t
has TO offer-deep seated chairs, ma
gaines that you are not obliged to
look at and books which no one has
/ TO read. These things, and fieeting
panorama of woodland and plain.
rHfII n fTf
town and country. whirring past you
in never ending impersonal pEoces-
sion.
Behind you are the fields Of snow
through which people whom you
once knew and were interested IN
plunge and shiver and will continue
to plunge and shiver until the snow
is gone again Outside your window
is sunlight and greenery and some
where ahead you know is the warmth
and light of a semitropical climate
full of all manner of luXuriant sur
prises You wonder what sort oi
people they are Who are content tC
fight the snow throughout the Ions
season You wonder. but you do MOI
particularly care.
For is there not. at the other enc
of the wire beneath the button a
your elbow, some one who is waiting
gladly to come and do your bidding
Is there not a company of servant
ready to crafty your whimsy wlsl
SO soon as you rise above your in
dolence sufficiently TO formulate it
There is no hurry. You Will thinl
of something you want presently
and ask for it; if for no other rea
Z / son than to give some one the pleas
81 ure of getting it for you. Meanwhile
2 with your finger between the page
, OF the book you were reading once
I some time in the dim past, you gaz
| out of the window at the whirlin
I world-waiting
{ This is the sense of relaxation an
8 luXuriant, troubleless ease which tn
e spirit of service on the America
e limited trains creates in your cor
a sciousness. You are made to fee
Y that the whole world is offered yo
n for your pleasure and onjoymen
r gratefully and bountifully. and tn;
Z you merely have to be passive to II
II ceive 1t.
r Nowhere else is there such trav
as there is in America, for this rel
IS son: Nowhere else is your sense
q individuality and Importance s
l. graciously administered to. N
u where else is it possible to enjC
d such complete abandon TO the eml
o tiness of time and space and the in
e potence Of winter storms.