Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — Exertions AfTer Pleasure. [ARTICLE]

Exertions AfTer Pleasure.

I maintain the paradox that he travels best who travels most naturally. If there is anything distressing it is your traveler who makes the best of his time, who, with his finger on a map and his eyes glued to a window-pane, attempts to acquire topography and enjoy scenery at the same time. The plan appears excellent, I know; but even Mozart, the musician, wrote those melodies that haunted- him, elaborated the themes that sought him, not those that he sought I might carry the figure further, deprecating that tendency in the callqw youth to seek for real beauty in every woman’s face he saw. A beautiful scene of nature, like the face of a beautiful woman, must compel admiration' rather than justify it. —The Ingle side.