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Show m m '" The Open Mind In Travel. To leave oneself behind la perhaps tho first nnd best Initiation for tavol, says Harper's Bazaar. As ono steps on tho train or goes up tho gang-plank, gang-plank, ono says farowell to that wear-m wear-m fc lug and aggravating personality who has lived so closo to us for months, demanding, de-manding, exacting, questioning, exhausting ex-hausting us with anxieties and brooding brood-ing troubles. It requires no entlro essay es-say ot Mantalgno's to provo to us how "that tho spirit often hlnderoth Itself." Fresh fields and pastures now, a head nnd tho hour to throw asldo tho old and put tho best foot foremost brings a new heart as readily as conversion. Caro Is shifted from tho shoulders; tho back Is turned upon teasing, reiterated re-iterated obligations, and adventures and strangeness, so exhilarating aftor a long siege of tho accustomed round, aro ahead. Montaigne says tbat some ono roported to Socrates that a certain cer-tain man was In no wise Improved by I his travels, and ho replied: "I can I well bellovo It slnco ho took himself I along." |