HINTS TO TRAVELLERS. [From Punch.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 424, 25 August 1849, Page 3

HINTS TO TRAVELLERS. [From Punch.]

The best travelling companion — A good digesuon, a keen razor, an easy pair of hoots, a Murray's hand book, a friend who isn't fidgety, a very elastic poitmanteau, a letter of credit, a spare axle, a tolerance of garlic, »he habit of nuking the best of everything, and a hide impervious to B flats, F sharps, and oilier bed-fellows that the misery oi travelling make* , a man acquainted with. What to avoid on arriving at a strange - place. — Don't take a laqvais de place. Don't think it necessary to " do" your churches and picture galleries against time. — Don't admire r ever-tilling. — Don't admire nothing. What to observe. — A regard to the prejudices of our nations, and the credit oi your own. Useful Receipts. — For keeping your tem-^ per. Never get into a passion, — For getting on. Never to be in a hurry. — For avoiding extortion. — Lodge at the best hotel, and buy at the best shop. — For avoiding mistakes.. Don't express opinions. . . •„ Aphorism /or Travelers. — What awheel", is without grease,. so is a man without money,/, and, a traveller without temper.-; - >'^ Things to remember.—. Remember that France, Spain, Germany, Italy, are not Eng-* land, and behave yourself accordingly. Remember that losing your temper and losing -\ our keys are equally inexcusable while tra-. 3 veiling — Remember not to forget anything. " — Remember that, you are certain of a stop- » page in the city. — -Remember tbat:a .carpet} I bag. tsicnever, full, and a cabman heifer, satis.-"* rfied. — Remember.the waiters on all occasicfay.h. •—Remember -that foreigners tPttf'jiidgtHi*

T.'onse 1 from _\he brick, so behave like "a brick" on all occasions. livery traveller wears colored spectacles, and slionhJ allow for the effect on men, manners, tn<i landscapes. — Patience is a moral tnuskito net. — Politeness is like an aircushion, there may be nothing solid in it, but it eases jolss wonderfully. — There is no community all rogues, any more than a currency all had money. To" have any chance of passing, both must be sparingly mixed with the genuine article. — If a great man has on some o'ccftsions-stpamed in the same heat, or run in the same train with you, don't begin your anecdotes, when you get home, with " when I was travelling with so an 1 so." — Always buy your sketches ready made. It saves time, and they are ceitain to be better than any you can make yourself.