The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-16
LEARN HOW TO
TRAVEL BEFORE
STARTING TRIP
Prospective Tourists to Europe
Should Study Three Months

months To prepare for your first tril
abroad. Probably YOU can do IL i'm les
than that, if YOU are one OF those VIII,
learn rapidly; say. two months and
half, ten weeks.
There used To be a species of travel.
er who greeted YOU with. Yes, it,
over the big pond for me tomorrow" ol
"Good-by. old man. I'm sailing tomor.
row over the same old mud hole, YOU
know with such an unprecedented
air that YOU felt sure he had made uu
his mind To so only moment before
he met YOU. You envied him. You
fancied him setting forth on his long
journey with about as much fuss aud
preparation as the average man deVot-
ed To ride in the subway. Certainly
no one who could talk so casually Of
| crossing the big pond or the mudhole
wasted much time getting ready for H..
He was eternally prepared. If he pack
ed more than nightshirt and a tooth
| brush into his grip before catching the
boat. you would have been deeply dis
appointed i'm him.
"Good-by" you said. How long
will YOU be gone"
"ph, just a little run over I'll be
back before YOU know it," he told you,
ana off he went.
The species is now extinct. At least
that is the impression YOU get from
the output of Travellers Guides and
Hints to Tourists and books on how
TO prepare for the trip. There is no
place on land or sea, for this Finnigan
of travellers, this member of the In
Again Out-AGain School Of tourists.
He has gone this time never to come
back, judging by the rules which now
govern the going and coming of all
who would visit Europe. The trip it.
self has become career and the pre-
parations for it is "A serious business.
Well to Know Your Ocean,
II no longer does To talk nippantly |
OF the big pond and the same old mad |
hole. Such a remark is at once a con- |
fession that you have not studied your |
travellers guide, wherein are set forth |
the Biggest Bodies of Water" Begin
ming with Pacific ocean, area i'm square |
miles, 60,000,000 average depth, feet,
12'1SO, and ending with Dead Sea. area
in square miles, 3O3; average depth,
feet 200. The big pond has been con-
Nerted into the Atlantic ocean, with
dimensions OF 35,OOO,OO0 and 1900
respectively. obviously these figures
are accurate. and without a thorough
knowledge of them a man is not quail
fled so much as To set foot on the
gangplank.
But i'm preparing for your trip there
is great deal to learn before you get
down TO these figures. First of all YOU
should know something about the his
tory, development and theory of the
wireless telegraph the distances from
Boston of the principal points on the
Atlantic coast, the addresses of the
American newspaper offices in Europe
the prohibited imports i'm England
France. Germany and Italy; rounJ-
world records of the more famous
globe trotters, customs regulations
abroad Federal railway systems Of the
continent, taXicaD charges i'm London,
The fleeing system, tides, velocity of
sound porpoises, how TO tell time by
The ships bells. how to translate knots
INTO miles. latitude and longitude,
POINTS of'thc compass, European cur
'encies, the Gulf stream, how to COM
quite differences i'm time between New
ork and where YOU are going, bag
gage regulations. how to carry funds.
steamship lanes, aud many other !
hlngs, including smatterng of Il
french, German and Italian for pur- I
loses of inquiring your way to the
nearest cathedral the postage rates, '
he hours for meals, and such things. !
The mastering of these facts is now {
considered an essential part of the q
PREPARATION for the trip. Some books 5
20 great deal further and prescribe !
documentary knowledge of physics
ma chemistry i'm order that the travel
r may have no difficulty translating ,
he temperatures registered by Reau- \
nur and centgrade thermometers into {
erms Of our own Fahrenheit. '
How and When to Fee. G
closely allied with this is the neces- .
lty OF starting out with a clear under /
tanding of the English private house Il
eeing system Herein, you soon dis Y
over your friend with fondness for v
he big pond must have encountered mol
nd Of embarrassment. +
England" your guide book author {
iy tells you, lis the land Of tips. You /
annot escape them If YOU try week a
nd. Saturday to Monday at "A private /
Iouse of no great pretcnsion will cost Il
he casual visitor about si.5O, whether {
nen servants or maid servants ara S
mployed." Z
There follow simple directions: Two n
killings and six for housemaid ami a
utlcr In the absence of butler. his c
&c goes to the parlor maid. with two ,
Killings TO the housemaid and like |
UNI to the boy You should allow |