The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-04

! Esexa} enjoy feeling at home when
i W&f4a IL I'm travelling"
i VMEE ~ 1t seemed to me that this
! >AA@t philosopher expressed the
/ ~ whole philosophy OF travel.
| "a, AA Many travellers feel
| 5sS&4A at home when they're travel
| ksA ing SO they may be said
| IT, 4sSI = ~ Railways to travel under a cloud.
| tE,zystspsSses5ys1Te And among them will be
found those restless people who never feel at home
when they are at home. AS rule, they long to
Ifcel at home and they think they would feel at
home if they were only in some other place or if
they were married or if they unmarried or if
they had money. II they could only sec just where
the trouble lay they would be surprised to find
how easy it would be to solve their problem.
The instant some people begin planning to
Itravel they become worried and irritated There
are the things to be left behind and the things to
be done before they get away. Some OF them
pass through fevcrs OF indccison. Oh, they can't
get away. It's impossible. They'll go in another
month or another year. As a rule, they are not
really important people at all. They merely think
they are important The really important people
know how to manage this situation as well as
other situations a circumstance that explains why
/
il ing their own energies and other peoples in fuss
! ing
have in mind now man OF this kind who
was suddenly called to make long journey. He
did not have time even to have a grip packed
| With his usual quiet manner he met the emer-
sency I'll get some things on the way he said
How he managed | never heard. But | knew he
would manage. and manage without making any
great trouble, too.
They are the real masters OF the world. those
quiet. easy people Every day they teach us the
meaning OF efficiency, not the false, but the real
nearing They never speed up. They smoothly
running all the TIME. Often they may appear TO
| be slow But fast or slow, they ready. And
their readiness invariably makes them good travel
ers On trains they may be instantly recognized
IThcv arc never 10 be found among those anguIshcd
passengers who, at the last moment, arrive rcd
faced and brcathcsS. who stand impatient and cN-
cited while the conductor holds them up at the
gate and, at last, reach their seats in a state OF
collapse. Nor arc they likely to be found among
those iniuriatcd and outraged people who arrive
Just in time to the train pull out and abandon
themselves to profanity II they do happen to
! lose a train, they don't lose themselves. They
know better.
| On train tho other day heard woman say
to her husband: I'm glad | came along. that
You can lay it onto me" Something had cvi-
identity been left behind That husband was
cyidcntly a poor traveller, lamcntcr and COM
palmer. and his wilc too, betrayed slight lack
of sclf-control, not unrelated to the Furnishing
instinct. In their travelling through life together
they were likely to each other many a jolt.
| For hours they sat together, the man with his
! ewes fastened his newspaper. the woman
absorbed in looking out OF the window, but with
out seeing the scenery.
The good travellers arc certain to be systematic.
| Without a system successful travelling is mpos-
siblc And the system itself must, like all sue
ccssful systems, be happily followed, that is, it
must be source of pleasure. The unsystcmatic
| people ovcrpack undcrpack. Through travel
ing in disorder, they stay in mental disorder They
are torrncnted by not finding what they need and
| they run out OF laundry. They even mislay their
railway tickets No wonder they long for home,
and when they reach home declare they don't
want to travel again for year
A really happy traveller, is likely to be good
man, able to meet strange circumstances and
| strange people with equanimty. hard test Of
, character Behind the instinct for roaming, often
seemingly antsocial, there lies kind OF power,
! related to courage and good cheer and to SYM
pathy with the whole world. So many of are
related only to own little parish, to the little
world that we have built out Of our sensitiveness.
our prcjudces, fears and conceits. On
the large world we look out fearfully emerging
only under favoring conditions and hurry
ing back to the parish. We all know people who
couldn't endure being alone in a distant place
for two days in succession. Compare them with
those who can joyously roam the great, wide
world enrichng themselves with contacts.
How much less favored they seem even than those
wanderers that hear of so often nowadays, not
tramps exactly, but migratory men, who throwing
off the restraints of conventional living, seemingly