_Zurich_ That by the date you get there it will be time to think of coming home again. [Illustration: GOING TO THE BATTLE OF FLOWERS AT NICE] [Illustration: SUDDEN INTERRUPTION OF THE BATTLE OF FLOWERS AT NICE. "SAUVE QUI PEUT!"] [Illustration: "L'ENTENTE CORDIALE" A Sketch on the Normandy Coast.] REGRETS _EN ROUTE_ (_By our Blasé Contributor_) That I missed so many chances of doing something more or less novel on the continent. That I did not try a cup of coffee on Dover Pier _before_ starting for Calais. That I avoided the smoke-room when the steamboat passed through a choppy sea mid-Channel. That I did not "declare" something to the _douane_, to see what would come of it. That I did not stay a day at St. Pol, and then take the slow train to Boulogne, stopping an hour or so at each of the interim stations. That I did not go to a third-rate hotel on the wrong side of the Seine to find out what it was like. That I didn't do the Bois de Boulogne in a fog. That I left Paris without seeing Père-la-Chaise in a Scotch mist. That I did not ride a horse in Venice. That I neglected to spend a couple of days in the Catacombs in Rome. That I refused to picnic on the top of the Tower of Pisa under an umbrella. That I neglected to return to Marseilles by a cargo-boat. That I followed no system at Monte Carlo. That I went out in summer clothing at Nice. That I took the train up the Rhine instead of one of the lumbering steam-boats. That I overslept myself at the summit of the Rigi, instead of catching cold under a blanket. That I followed the system of Mark Tapley without attempting cheerfulness. Finally, that when I was in Japan, I did not save myself further boredom by personally patronising "the happy despatch." * * * MEMS FOR TRAVELLERS ON THE CONTINENT. --First-class abroad is patronised by princes, millionaires, fools, _and_ wise men. A sight-seeing trip would be far pleasanter without the sight-seeing. * * * ENGLISH AS SHE IS WRITTEN AT ZERMATT.-- On the back of the business card of a Zermatt shoemaker is the following notice:-- "PAY ATTENTION TO THIS Visitors are kindly invited to brought your boots self to the schoemaker, then they are frequently nagled by the Portier and that is very dammageable for boots and kosts the same price." [Illustration: A REMINDER "Well, good-bye, old man. We've had a high old time in dear old Paris, haven't we! To me it all seems like a dream!" "So it would to me, old man, if you didn't owe me thirteen francs!"] HOLIDAY HINTS (_By the Expert Wrinkler_)