Show reading about foreign countries at this time of year we are overrun with applications for guide books works of travel books of modern history of foreign countries and even novels of which the scene is laid abroad whatever they may say in europe about the americans they cannot truthfully declare that we do not prepare for a foreign tour for hardly any one now goes abroad without reading of the countries he intends to visit sometimes as carefully as though he expected to pass a competitive examination there are several persons in the city who go abroad every summer and you can tell exactly where they are going by the books they ask for when they are getting ready for the tour the fact shows that americans are intelligent sightseers and when they visit a foreign city know exactly what they are to see there and often by reason of the special cramming they undergo understand alie history antiquities and curiosities of the places they visit better than people who have lived there all their lives interview in sac louis globe democrat |