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Show Traveling a Modern Passion. Now the gadfly which pursued poor Io seems to have stung us all, and we flit about the globe restlessly, till it has nearly come to pass that everybody who has a house has let it to somebody else, and the last place to expert to find a man is nt home. A general game of puss-in-the-corner amuses the best society of Europe and America all the summer and much of the winter. The humblest village school child expects two or three annual excursions; every servant and shop hand stipulates for holidays long enough to pay distant visits; in short, our lives are becoming much like those of festive gnats at play of a warm evening. even-ing. Sometimes we pause to suck a flower or to bite somebody, but we soon return to the perpetual locomotion which seems to possess unfailing charm. Frances Fran-ces Power Uobbe in Forum. |