Southward Ho !
DAYS at sea can be full of activity or they can be days of rest and of complete cessation from'responsibility—herein lies one chief attraction of the sea for the world's workers, whether they log their voyages by hundreds of miles or by thousands.
If sea travel is refreshing, it is also cheap. A thousand miles of first-class rail travel will cost the individual 'about 212 10s. for travel alone. Twenty-two pounds will buy nearly 2,620 miles of sea passage with, thrown in, eight days bed and board equal to the best hotel standards, but with no extra charge for baths, after-dinner coffee and so on. Such a voyage is that from London to Gibraltar and back, but these statements will be found to be just as true of longer distances and other destinations. There is no pleasanter prospect than to shorten the winter by a week or a month, or may be three months, in the eastward or southerly land of one's choosing.
To stand, in winter-time, sun-bathed, in summer clothes, or may be in next to none, on a southern shore, while one's stay-at-home friends are breathing the cold humidity of their native air; is less productive of pity for their lot than of content for one's own. The pleasant but momentary shock of arrival over, the new world lies before you, be It Morocco, Algeria, the Riviera, Egypt or distant India.
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