Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-10-08

maid, boots" the waiter, the hall
porter, the bell boy and others that
must not be forgotten. AS one passes out
all of the men and boys in the hotels on
the continent stand in row until the
departing guest has dropped his
sheckles and darkened the door. 4 good
story is told of an American, who
stopped at a Paris hotel and gave a
sigh of relief as he leaned back in his
taxicab after he had tipped the man
who gave him his hat and gloves as
we'll as all the others about the hostel
ry. Before the wheels had turned
twice around he discovered boy run
ming along beside the machine and the
traveller savagely desired to know
J what the youth desired, the conversa-
ton being in French.
"a few coppers sir, according
I to the custom, the boy painted.
''Why, what did you do?"
| eff you please, sir, said the boy,
II saw you get into the cab A little
J tip will sometimes do much for your
comfort, as was often shown by our
, conductor. Getting compartments re-
served in train in advance, a COM
/ Portable seat on boat or other de-
, sired favor is usually assured for the
J sake of few pennies.
The Continental Breakfast.
D, | Not many Americans care continen
E tai for continental breakfast. In
fact it is so abbreviated that it would
be good plan to carry your break
fasts with you when you go to the con-
tinent. Breakfast over there consists
. of coffee and rolls, with little unsalt-
i. ed butter and excellent marmelade or
. jam thrown in. Meat, fruit and eggs
are all extra Milk is but little used =,
f. cream has not been discovered, Amer
lean breakfast foods are unknown and
! pancakes are as remote as the center
of the earth so far as the bills of fare
are concerned. The sweet butter
comes to you in waters thin as Fair or
in little shaving rolls about as large as
:, an acorn. Breakfast in an English or
Scottish hotel includes fish, eggs and
:, other substantials much the same as in
America. Bread on the continent is
:, delicious and far superior to the Amer
+ lean make.
4 Americans Great Travellers.
/ Americans are looked upon as the
o greatest travellers on earth and are
: supposed to come from a land where
/ gold grows in the streets. Fully half
:. of those who journey about in Europe
are from Uncle Sans land. Many &c
3 from America with no fixed purpose
e and drift about with the wind, now
d here, now there, until they are caught
t in current that blows them home
n again or are frightened by the sound
e of the guns; others go with a fixed
S purpose to see museums, galleries,
n gardens or libraries and some go be-
o cause they think the atmosphere of
:. Europe contains some magical element
r which can be carried away like pota-
n toes from field or coins from a bank.
e Still others go to reside in wicked Paris
i or other continental city and the pity
e of it all is they become so intoxicated
f with the wonders of the old world they
: lose their love for their native land.
a The climate of western Europe lis not
o so invigorating as many places in
. America and there seems to be but
$ little excuse for tourists spending mil
8 lions for health annually in foreign
! lands. Globe trotting began by Amer
i leans soon after the civil war and was
t given a marked impetus after the
t Franco-German war of 10 and II by