Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1880 — Enjoyment of Travel. [ARTICLE]

E njoyment of Travel.

Ofcaito* Dad tor Winwr. In order to enjoy travel, one must ] have a home, and one that to loved, pulling a little at his heart-strings all the while; for the best thing about traveling fcrthe going home. It to contrast that makes most of our enjoyment: If you stay from home so long that its ties begin to slacken, foreign travel loses its zest. I think, indeed, that one must be a warm patriot in order to be a cosmopolitan. That is as much as to say that where there to no center there to no circumference. One needs to feel always that he to going from somewhere as well as to somewhere, and that when he wills he can return to his own fireside and the circle of friends that form his real world. When the traveler to cut loose from all ties and becomes a wanderer, his interest in the world to so diffused that It to almost lost. One should go home before he becomes a victim to wandering. I know aMr who, for three or four yean, had wrecked her appetite on all the tables d’ Hote from Amsterdam to Jerusalem, who finally declared that she must go home to America to get something to eat, and she took ship accordingly. Next to patriotism, her motive' was most praiseworthy and comprehensible. r