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Show TRAVELING FOR HEALTH. This is th e season when the New World makes its annual invasion of the Old. A large proportion of our countrymen goieg abroad are in searoh of rest and health. In fact, almost everybody who has overworked and is physically out of order is advised to visit Europe, and the advice is commonly followed, being vastly preferable to enforced leisure and a course of regimen and medicine at home. Europe is unquestionably good for invalids and valetudinarians ot any kind; but to experience any benefit, they must do very differently from moat Americana, who, whtther strong or wealc, well or ill, travel last and furiously, resolved to crowd what should extend over two or three years into very few months. They are apt to aail early in the Spring with tbe intent to see Great Britain and Ireland and most of the Continent Con-tinent in six months, or to leave tbe country in June and return in Sep tember, alter navmg done England aud Scotland, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Their plans they usually carry out, too, but at an expense of nerve and vitality which they can by no means aflord. To any one netdiog rest or restoration such journeying is uearly as bad as bad can be. Instead uf helping, it hurts them; it rather insures than cureB invalidism; it wholly defeats tbe very end they have in view. Constant travel and eigbt-seemg eigbt-seemg even for a tew months, will wear ou anybody. Even the most robust aod enduring men, after an active tour ot Europe, will lose from 20 to SO pounds, though they have no surplus flesh at tbe etart. They may continue healthy and atrong; but their reduction in weight proves what a tax Bleady travel in for. sign cou n tri ee m us t be u pon ph sical vigor a tax that no infirm constitution con-stitution or ailing body can bear with impuuity. People who go abroad tor rest or health ahould limit their travel and sight-seeing, if they can possibly denationalize themselves to such extent. Instead f trying to see the greater part of Europe in one or two seasons, tbey bouiu vijii few places and keep aa quiet as p acticable, (Switzerland it full cf charming spots to Bpend a sum out in, profiting by change of air and scene, and getting on the other side the sea what they do not get ou tbid. But tearing over the Old World afier the ordinary American fashion ol necessity rather makes than mends invalids. New York Timet, |