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What, then, can be better than a trip to the islands?  Change of scene means renewed health.  And if you are a lady, bored by the vagaries of artificial 'society,' longing for the beautiful and the freedom of Nature, you come too,and bring your relations....the fares are cheap enough; and, after all, what's the good of money unless rationally used?  You cannot take it with you across the Styx ... only, for God's sake, be yourself; drop all 'side,' if only for a month, in the pilgrimage of life-and-don't get jealous; don't impute evil where there is none.  Learn, oh, learn! That the world is wide, although but molecule in an Endless Universe, and that people differ, and customs too, while yet belonging to the Eternal Whole.

Wragge,  The Romance of the South Seas (1906)  p119