Travel has been made easy for the ] present generation. A man need not nowadays be a Marco Polo to see the world he lives in. With the opening of the Siberian Railway, he can put a girdle about it, if not, perhaps, in forty minutes, assuredly, in as many days, The speed and safety of railroad travel have increased no less than its comfort. The conditions of sea travel change for the better every year, and the. advent of steam, lacking, it may be, the romance of canvas; has made the liner immeasurably Bafer than the old sailing ship, the sport of wind and wave which combine, in vain against the huge, -many-storeyed hotels that hurry between Liverpool and Quebec or New York.—"Globe."
"Did Tom have luck hunting tigers In India?" "•Yea ; 'great luck," - >"Hqw?"
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North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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135Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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