Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-09

there A few days later 1 went, and
fonnd there 1900 young women, the
Hover and beauty of the country. was
paid the great compliment of having
these fair creatures assembled to meet
me. The school would rank with Elton,
Harrow, and Rugby in England, and as
| realized what the compliment would
have meant coming from them, 1 con-
slider it one of magnitude.
At a igual these eighteen hundred
young women rose, exactly on the in
slant, together and sang q hymn in
Latin. Think of it! Then at another
signal they placed their eighteen hun
dred selves IN eighteen hundred chars,
all again on the instant. Such precision!
II is marvellous. I was presented to
these young women and asked them
where they expected to find eighteen
hundred husbands worthy of them.
These are samples of the many free
institutions of learning in this wonderful
country. And as such they have i'm
pressed me deeply. 1 have of course,
in my busy career here, had but little
time for sightseeing, n so nave
missed manv things which it would have
given me great pleasure to have ex-
amined more closely. But, though my
time has been limited, my presence in
so many cities has filled me with greater
appreciation of the immensely of the
size, charities, industries, aud insti-
buttons of this marvellous land.
Another thing by which all English
people who visit America must be sur
prised, as much and as deeply as l have
been, by the extensive expause of terri
tory. To be able to take railway jour
neys thousands Of miles in length, his
to au Highlander is amazing.
Another thing which has deeply i'm
pressed me has been the distinct charac-
teristics prevailing in each city. Boston
is not in any way like to New York, nor
Philadelphia to Chicago. 1 could no
more confound any one of them with an
other than 1 could mistake q Philadel-
phian for q New Yorker. They are
themselves and themselves alone. No
city has any idea of the powers aud capa-
abilities of its neighbors, because Of the
distance between most of them it is i'm
possible that they should have. What
does New York know of Philadelphia
magnificent charities, homes aud ~institu-
tons, or what knows Boston of BaIti-
more's places of help. Your cities are
so scattered, n YOU distances so great,
so enormously great, that such now
edge is impossible. Each has it's marks
of Individuality just as all are possessed
with the common virtue or gTace-I
know not which to term it-of hospital
ity. We had read of American hospital
lty, We had heard of it, but now we have
seen, enjoyed, and experienced it. and I
can easily say that there is nothing like
it the world over.
Such cordialtty and kindness I have
never before encountered. And / have
been able only in q slight degree to ao-
cept of this hospitality for various rea-
sons. Ny work, unfortunately, requires
so much of my time, rehearsals are con-
stantly necessary, for we are always fly
ing from one city to another, and in zach
place we have to begin work afresh.
And then the very abbreviated length OF
our stay in the different cities has helped
to prevent me knowing more intimately
the charming people l ave had the good
fortune to meet. But to know
that this journey, which has
meant to me nine months separat on from
my children, my home and all of my
oldest friends, constant travelling, the
facing of new audiences nightly, and of
new critics almost weekly, hat this
journey, besides bringing appreciation,
has brought me many new warm friends,
and has given, perhaps, much pleasure
to these friends, to know this, is most
satisfactory. To finish where I began,
however, the only unhappIness on
nected with the journey has been the
separation from my children, a separa-
ton which l could not endure again, and
should l ever return to America, they
shall come with me. MADGE kendall.