Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-20
ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL


ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL
How a Fashionable Young Lady
studied Her Own Country.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Two beautiful young damsels meetl,e
m Fulton street the other day beamed
with delight as they scanned each others
summer tinery.
land where have you been, my love?n
asked the brunette.
"Traveling" responded the blonde.
"Been gone three months, studying our
own country. Ma said young lady's
education was not finished till she had
gone aboard, and twas vulgar to 20 to
Europe without knowing anything of
ones own country"
"How grand" sighed the brunette,
whose sight seeing had been limited to
Central park and Coney Island.
eyes, but pa didn't want to 60 bit.
so ma and l planned and planned.
Finally, fell in love with plumber,
Pa reasoned with me, so did ma, but
got firmer and declared I'd have my
own way. Ma got awfully uneasy (be-
fore pa) and-well, in short, pa con-
cluded to let me travel
"You naughty thing. But where have
you been?"
Gust everywhere. First south and
"Oh then you had a chance to study
some OF those southern problems one is
always reading abOut?'
81 don't remember them; but pa first
tramped me over miles and miles of bat
tie fields, and saw where-Oh! what's
his name?"-Oh! that big general; you
know who l mean2"
eyes" responded the other, eagerly.
"Neyer mind his name."
"Well, we saw where-Oh! Grant
that's it-where Grant and Lee, yes, Pm
sure it twas Lee, fought, or bombarded,
or surrendered; anyway, don't remem-
Der details. And then we went to Mex
leo, and that was awful; flies and san d,
and pa Just wore me out with his old
Spanish towns, and graveyards, and
dug-up things. But ma said it was all.
important, and I wanted to be able to
discrlbe them all, so just got through
somehow"
"How lovely to travel and improve
ones self" murmured the listener, with
an admiring eye on Kitty's terra Gotta
bonnet.
$50 ma says. Well, then we went to
Utah, to Salt Lake City"
ooh! those horrid Mormons! Did you
really see them?"
eyes, indeed, and made q study OF
them. Ma sal that was proper. Were
there two or three days, and such dow.
dies as those women are, and the mem
well, they are too Insignificant. Pa took
us to the-the-Oh, temple-no-tabe
nacle. Twas ever so queer, and ma got
me q book on statistics and things; so
III be way up, see?'
Glow splendidly you'll be able to
converse with every one! I quite envy
you"
"Yes, ma says few girls have such op.
portunities, and mean to improve mine.
Then we've been to California and oh
such big trees, and those wretched little
Chinamen. San Francisco isn't much to
see. The shops are not any nicer than
Brooklyn. But st. Paul is too lovely.
Got one of those stylish-looking ulsters.
VIII you believe me? Pa wanted to drag
me Oft t. see the falls of-of-Millie or
Mlnnehaha, just because Whittier, or
Lord Byron, or some Tom, Dick or Harry
wrote poem about..it. But we only
fd had two days there, and L was
"And you have seen all the great,
grand west-the splendid mountains, the
rolling ,prairies. and breathed that pure
air."
ooh, my! yesp, interrupted the tour
list, eagerly. "and we visited real min
ing camp. But soiled my,new silk Jer-
sey. I was so disgusted. But pa-wel,
once get him started and there's no 60
ing back. Chicago and Cincinnati are
not like New York. Thank goodness, we
are at home. Travelling is improving
and all, but pa did manage to take us to
some horrid places. Now ma says, 'Eu-
rope next spring, to give final polish
ia is awfully contrary, but ma and are
patient with him, and we generally work
together. guess he will give i'm
"Of course he WILL" murlnured the
brunette, "for he must be proud ofyou."
"Oh, he is, but pa is queer and thinks
tits silly to'show ones feelings. But come
| round to lunch some day, and I'll tell
you more. Ma says the next thing to
travelling ones self is to cultivate those
who have enjoyed the privileges
How kind you are dear"
''Good-by."
And the sweet creatures separated, one
buying her ribbons with ar envious soul
the other selecting ruches with compla-
cent pride.
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