| Show the open mind in travel to leave oneself behind Is perhaps the first and best initiation tor for travel says harpers bazaar As one steps on the train or goes up the gangplank one says farewell to that wearing and aggravating personality who has lived so close to us for months demanding exacting questioning exhausting hau sting us with anxieties and brooding tr troubles it requires no entire essay of Mantal gnes to prove to us how that the spirit often hin hildereth dereth lisek itself flesh fields and pastures new a head anil and the hour to throw aside the old and put the best toot foot foremost brings a new heart as readily as conversion care is shifted from the shoulders the back Is turned upon teasing leasing reiterated obligations and adventures and strangeness so exhilarating after a long siege of tile the accustomed round are ahead montaigne says that some one reported to socrates that a certain man was in no wise improved by his travels aud and he replied 1 I can well believe it since lie he took himself along |