The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-19
OUR YANKEE HOME AGAIN FROM FOREIGN
SHORE"

After an absence OF more than six months
during which time we have travelled many
thousands of miles, both by sea and by land
we have reached home IN safety, without ex
periencing the slightest accident or delay oc-
casioned by accident to public cOnveyances,
or suffered from Illness or having any plans
worthy of note frustrated by unavorable
weather the expense has not exceeded our
anticipatiOnS and we have met no loss We
have indeed been prospered in all our under
takings, tor which we have occasion to feel
profoundly grateful, and the numerous greet
ings by kind friends makes us feel welcome
again to KenOsha. The only drawback to the
pleasure of the tour, has been having too
much ground to go over in short & time,
thereby making it too much like hard labor,
as any one knows who has spent but short
| time Only IN travelling and sight seeing that
] it is attended with fatigue, but to restless
| spirit there is pleasure in having enough to
do and doing 1t
The quesLIonIhas been asked, ''Has it paid?'
| We answer, Eyes" We feel amply paid
| have received full value for all expense in
Cured, and would recommend any one who
has the desire to travel, and whose crcum
| stances permit, to make the tour of Europe
| We have endeavOred to take common sense
| view of things, without prejudice either pro
or con have seen many things worthy 0fim
| itation by our GOWN country, while on the
other hand there is much in our own country
| which Europe might initiate with advantage.
We return with greater respect for the pcO
| pie of other countries, and more Tolerant tor
| the customs which those who emgrate bring
with them to this country, and though We
entertain no less respect for the institutions
of our own country than before, we are dives
! ted to a certain extent, of much of that ma
| ttonal prejudice in favor of our own country,
| in which every American is apt, more or less
| to indulge, who has never mingled with the
| people of other nations.
We have ever SHRINK from nuhlic rOtOrlotV
| through the press or otherwise, and it was
with much dltfdence that we consented to
| write for publication, and then, only at the
numerous solicitations OF friends with whom
| we could not personally correspond. We
soon found that we had promised more labor
| tnan we were aware of but having promised
| could not do otherwise than fulfill We sta
| ted at the commencement that we should aim
at no style, or assume any airs, but state
what we had to say in plain, 1ireside con-
versational manner, telling our g little story
in as simple manner as possible, and we
teel confident no one will accuse us OF having
performed any literary exploit Our writing
has almost universally been done either by
the light of a tallow candle (gas is not com
mon in the privateroOmS OF hotels in Europe)
after hard days jauntng and when we
should have been sleeping; or hastily just be.
tore the closing of foreign mail without
even time to review our manuscript, and con-
sequently with little arrangement or connec-
ton of subjects and always in defiance of
all known rules of rhetoric, logic or syntax,
and our own plumbers have been fully Cqualed
by the types, which have made us say many
things which we did not intend, andsUice Uers0.
but with ell their imperfections, if our scrlh
blings have contributed to interest or amuse
our friends, we have been amply repaid for
our labor. l..
Kenosha, Oct 18th, 1871.