El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-20


It never done no gOOd to me,
But 1 carnt 'elp it, il I tried
40 SINGS Kipling's victim of Wan
rerIust." And with this song
~ travel becomes an obsession that
takes a man up and down the face of the
] earth-a wanderer, useless and be-
! witched by the mere need TO roam.
But even in such poor case, travel is
I thing of romance. Think IN your
own heart, how much more respect
] YOU have for the tramp caught by the
lure of the road than for the cheap
| beggar of your city streets
And travel on its higher planes holds
| all the romance and poetry and much
of the progress and growth OF the ages
True stories are not so good as fairy
tales in that they do not always end
! happily The brave hero who dis
| covers a continent is not rewarded
| with the hand Of the lovely princess
/ in real life. His story does not end
! And so they were married and uVed
! happy ever after" But even if his
life ends in prison and his story never
! ends.
The discoverer is the worlds hero.
I His biography is true romance. The
! continent he goes to seek becomes a
! glorious monument to the travel
which is founded on the principle
not Of for to admire and for to see"
but to seek out and to give to the
world the gift of new lands and new
/ possibilities.
After the diseoverer comes a vast
I army of explorers and soldiers and
( governors of strange places, and
! pioneers who put the land under cul-
] Uivation, and observing travellers who
/ give the world the record of what they
! nave seen. For each soldier in the
] legion which brings to US knowledge
I OF strange places, we feel a romantic
I thrill of admiration. Even as Desde-
mona listened breathlessly to the ex-
| PLOTS of her Moor, so all Of US. today
I are held by the tales of a traveller re-
I turned from far places.
A Little Clerk.
An exquisite little story has been
written of a poor old clerk who took
each year a glorious vacation. He
went home to his little attic room for
| his two weeks Of freedom and there he
pOred over time tables and folders
and Baedekers and prOspectuses of
various sorts and all the wonderful
descriptive literature of travel
Each year, after this fashion, he took
1 thrilling trip. In imagination he had
gone up and down the flowery
kingdom of Japan and the ice-paCked
REGIONS of Siberia. Alaska and the
Riviera We're alike known to him. He
knew the difference in the azure blue
Of the far famed Mediterranean and
the marvellous green-blue of the Luga-
no nestled below the Alps in the north
of Italy.
He had Travelled widely with ro-
nance in his heart and with his i'm
aginatiOn kindled to make for itself
picture of the far places of the earth.
At last came the opportunity actually
TO go afar, actually to see the re-
Rions he had visioned. And he was
afraid: afraid lest reality disturb and
destroy his romance; afraid lest see
ing, he should find the lands he had
dreamed of cold and austere or hot
and parched. Travel to him was
thing Of the heart not of the eye he
srr-fcf Of 1crra
self at the top Of the Jungfrau from
the vantage point Of his own high
bedchamber. But the necessities of
travel Of going out from Interlaken
early in the morning and changing at
the Grindelwald to q cogwheeI rail-
road with which to ascend to the bridal
yelled mountain terrified him.
The world is full of people VINO trav-
el like the tramp sailor of Kiplings
song merely for to admire and for to
see" or who, like our poor old clerk,
long to travel and vet fear its dis
comforts and disappointments and
difficulties too much to go.
In the discOYerer, the explorer, the
Observant traveller, the pioneer of
strange places, anil the strength of de-
sire to admire and to see all the brave
willingness to endure hardship, all
the faith in ability to conquer the
wilderness, unite most gloriOusly,
To pioneers of travel the world is
everlastingly indebted All glory to
suchl But those of US who cannot be
pioneers and discoveries can still ex-
plore.
Every traveller should be an OK
plOrer. Every traveller should find as
he goes to new places some message
for himself, some knowledge he can
bring back and interpret to the stay
at-homes. Travel is never barren or
wasted for the keen-eyed observer
ever something new in it
We live in a little world that Is all
unexplOred. If you have no more
chance to travel than from the Bat
terry to the Bronx you can bring high
adventure and splendid empire to
that trip. Perhaps it would do you
more good than to trOt up and down
the wide world restlessly unintelli-
do not attempt to understand.
Miss No Opportunity to See
If chance affords the opportunity to
travel, strange countries for to see"
take it by all means But before you
go learn a little of the history and
tradition of the place you are TO see.
Go with the intelligent desire to to I'M
derstand the people and interpret the
customs Of the country to which you
are going.
ence and you have never heard of
Andrea del SartO or Leonardo da
Ufizzi Gallery mean nothing to you
and the Arno holds no tradition, you
are likely to see nothing but mar
row streeted, dirty city with some
rather pretty suburbs. And yet Flor |
enCe has been called the garden spot
Of the world" Take an imaginary
trip Gikc the old clerk) through it (!
now. Get ready really to see it if
ever the chance comes.
ExplOrel If you have no chance to /
explore anything but your own home |
town, explore that; study the romance !
of travel that put it on the map and /
the men who adventured to and for it /
once. But always explore. If it is |
given you to see wide horizons, see ]
them intelligently. Never travel for /
mere "wanderlust," but always to so !
further than merely admiring or see /
ing the surface always to interpret /
the meaning of what you see and to 1
bring high romance to the glory of !
travel
Study like the old clerk. Acquaint ,
yourself with strange lands. There is /
ready for you. And then take +
the chance to travel if ever it comes. !
bravely if adventure you
may.
But aIways-explore. Study the IA
miliar and find its romance. Investi-
gate the unknown lands that lie afar
Explore with heart and mind and !
brain. The world is our textbook and
our key to romance. The world liei
before US all. Let US explore