Year: 1875

nrice of living, added to the low rates of |
passage this Spring, have driven a large
number Of our foreign population back to
Cermany and Ireland, for u time at least. |
They usually return again, i'll the face of all |
Encouragement. The emigrant who has |
brcathed American air for year, however
he NAV abuse it, is never contented with |
any other.
The hard times, too, instead of diminish
ing the annual migration of our wellto-do |
classes, have promoted it. There are
Americans who have formed permanent
commercial artistic, or social connections
in Europe, and who maintain steady cur
rent of travel to and fro, which increases
every year. But the great mass of Ameri-
can passengers on the steamers are those
who can hope to make but one visit to
Europe in their lives, and make that for
the sake Of the education it gives, or be-
cause it is as much necessity among
wOuld-be fashionable people to have seen
the Bridge of Signs or the Lion of St.
Marks as to wear dresses or trousers of an
dtliIONt'l Nuts III lilV leNA SOlANltNtAOAi OhlS
men and women already possessing culture,
appreciated or desired the lessons which
they could learn from older civilizations
than their own but now, the father of but
moderate income makes hard effort to
ciye Ton or Bob the benefit of Sum
mcr's sightseeing after he has delivered his
commencement speech, and hosts of mid
dle-aged hard-worked professional men,
merchants and their wives, come up from in
land towns and villages and set sail this
month on the voyage which they have set
before them since their youth as the goal
and reward for their labors.


The question as to whether they will
bring back anything in exchange for the
money expended beyond few dresses, pic
lures, and crude notions of art, does not
seem to trouble them. The real object OF
going abroad ought to be rest and complete
change of idea for brains too long worked in
any direction; and to find out for ourselves
as Americans, our real position in the world
Both these rational objects will be frustrated
by the method which in nine cases out Of
ten will be adopted by the passengers flock
ing to-day on board the steamers. The
usual course is to rush with cOuriers anc
piles of baggage headlOng from Paris t.
Rome and back again, at rate and outla!
which certainly afford no soothing rest o
brain to the elders who pay the bills. A
for comparing our condition in art, learn
ing, commerce or ordinary matters of lif
with that of any other nation--the averag
American has no time for any observation
of the sort. lie is wholly occupied will
the triumphant discovery that he has


fuller pocket than the general run G
foreigners, that the New York belle dresse
better than any EnglishwOman and wit
less regard to expense than any Frenc
princess; that his fellow countrymen ou
bid dukes and princes in the matter {
horsehesh, diamonds, and travelling con
forts. He joins the blatant crowd an
hies through Europe fiinging about h
money in honor Of his country-and to til
amusement of wellbred foreigners and d.
light Of tradesmen. Systematized plans
swindling are now established in Paris an
London among hotelkeepers and deale
of all sorts, the intended victims of whiC
are only Americans. However, this la
vest will soon be gathered. Jonathan


shrewd and learns his lesson from hin
In ten years more he will ride in secon
class cars along with German count al
French marquis, and will button up h
pocket and bargain with innkeepers al
bric-a-brac dealers with a success that W
he lesson to every European. VIII
that time comes the American who
no money to throw away may 60 abro
with comfort, but until it does his face al
speech lay him open to eztOrtion.
would do well meanwhile to confine hi
self for few years to his own country, a
to the study there of human nature a
scenery.


For one lucky New Yorker, however, W
can buy his ticket for Liverpool or
Francisco to-day without thought of


pense, there are dozen just as well fit
by education and taste and WEAKNESS
enjoy the journey, who have not a dollar
spend for tickets of any sort. 1t is


only the brieAess lawyer and doctor W
out patients whose pockets are empty,


men who occupy fine houses on Nun
Hill and baronial estates on the Nc
River, which it is ruin to sell and wi
weld no income. There is way by wi
these and all other penniless people


travel during all the idle Summer.
half a dozen books of travel OF diffe


dates, map, and series Of Photosr'


of scenery and pictures, poor semps


and her little boy made the tour OF
and Switzerland last Summer. They


eled only in the cool of the evening;


were no extortionate bills to dispute


Heas to fight, not penny to spend.


fingered here or there as the fancy Sc


them. In the best of company, and, v


the journey was over, really had a b


knowledge of the country and Its his


and clearer idea of its art and p'


than Jones of Madison-aye., who SEQ