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Show D:vb:or? cf Travels Before "Age of Speed" In the middle of t!ie last century there were f:ur kinds of tours Into which traveling at that time was sometimes divided. A "Tour de Force" was a trip to such places as Algiers, Botany I".::y or some other penal colony and was usually made in handcuffs. A "Tour d: Gascon" was an Imaginary Im-aginary tour like the travels of Huron Munchausen, and received Its name from the well-known Inventive proclivities pro-clivities of the Gascons. The third class was "The Tour de iesle," so called because everything was paid for on the spot, "on the nail." a play on the English word. Mist, hut most Important, was "The Grand Tour," as It was sometimes called. This was supposed to be performed per-formed by every young gentleman of pood fandly before he was considered lit to live at home. It gave him an opportunity to sow his wild oats away from the restraining influence of home and parents. When the bills came In fathers usually flew into a rnge. Hence the name. New York Times. |