The Atlanta constitution., 1896-06-22

In their party was another person of
parts. one-time New Englander and
the university of California. Some woman
| talked with thought he was German
because he wore u blond beard, but ne had
long Boston hands ard the best Boston ac-
cent, which seems far nicer English tnan
/ hear in Britain, but that's because I'm
ignorant. don't cher know
There were girl and a married woman
from Brooklyn and to them q real Rudyard
Kipllng Englishman attached himself. I've
a feeling that he will marry the girl I'm
time. There We're two sweet Philadelphia
women, one with a face like morning
star Her people were all QuaSers and she
made me always feels what \ good and
blessed thing a good woman was. Her
husband with her and they Were
chaperoning the thin girl in black with
brown hair that IS said to grow on the
heads of the women who make the best
wives. This girl was exquisite.
Hen-Women and Others.
There were other women-a row of them.
They were hen-women. Perhaps you don't
know the type. They huddled together and
looked superior and had clumps of dia-
monds on their large. white hands. They
must have been very rich, because they
wore nothing else. and they had to be eX-
elusive or else some Of them might have
been taken for their own maids, since re-
fined noses, well cut mouths, soft hair and
the general look of the assured gentlewo-
men cannot be bought with diamonds and
taor-made frocks. Some Of the hen-wo-
men had nurses and little children and
these We're also exclusive. The children
never talked and the nurses lifted them
away from people as il everybody on board
had smallpox. 1T was very funny and the
little Quakeress and the brown-haired girl
and had a merry bout over them.
There was a funny German dame-I
think she must have been "a parsonage"
because she was meddlesome and wore ban
giles and bracelets. She made the Brooklyn
girl uncomfortable by telling her it wasn't
proper for young ladies to sit on deck with
men after dinner, and when my small girl
was QiSpOrting herself in the music room
after that ceremonious meal she inquired
polehtly as 10 tho hOur oil hef bedlliie'
and when l answered that there were no
clocks in my home, that the family Went
TO bed when they were sleepy and that
we were governed entirely bv our inclna-
tions in such matters. ] think she wanted
TO pitch me into the briny deep. such
dreadful freedom was. i'm her eyes, piece
q American savagery. Tor dld not take
the trouble to explain that most people
I'm our barbaric land do have clocks aud do
get up and go 70 bed by them I'm alrald,
however that the little American girl with
me is in many ways disappointment TO
the majority of well regulated old Euro
pcan ladies' with whom we have been
thrown for she isn't impertinent and she
doesn't pull peoples noses nor talk an as
founding amount of slang
The Concert, of Course.
we had concert in the main salon, and 10
it came all the passengers, and the
room was filled with happy faces and an
air Of general rejoicing pcryaded the place.
The hen women put on the best things IN
their steamer trunks and sat in stately.
stupid row; the Jewesses arrayed them
selves IN fine garments and Bebecca smiles.
the Germans griuned from ear to ear as
though they We're sitting uuter der linden
iu one of their own beer gard rs. Mr. Cur
It's Guild was speaker for the occasion
and his clever wit in part made up for the
many performers whose instruments, eilher
exterior or interior. Were too much affected
by the voyage TO allow OF an appearance.
There were some good things. however,
and. of course. some poor ones, Which IS
always true OF an amateur aILht, even
though it includes professionals. Inc Afly
brothers. Of Sandow's troupe. wrestea in
"A small arena surrounded with eyes and
noses that felt themselves in distinct dal-
ger OF being jabbed. SsnuoW hlhla-iA " olb
Iust one feat of GnBcr Strength "Aicn Wa
10 tear iu TWO VITA ono puL tWo p"cAS 81
cards, but TINS was As'iuiS @N
..ftrar., - 4.5 ,rspv,t o.,tstis er r'-'
feminine part oI the a"dleu1e'
who seemed 10 be on the qul VlVe 20 nave
HIM come out stripped 10 inc waist anu lltl
ii inc so listed, the Augusta Victoria Irom
the bosom OF mother ocean The tenor
solos OF AIR. Paul Sicgal, the drst tenor OF
the Da8nrusch opera Company, would nave
lifted out OF commoupiaccness a less cieuIl-
able affair * perfect tenor voice. one thae
is goou IN every note, clear and So ympd1net-
iC, is music's rarcst gltt and TINS ultlc man
has IL, and as you look at nn white ne
sings he reminds you % a homely Hldt car
are very reasonable lnQeeu ANA every -hIL45
rot that through some strange necrcInancy
eNhalcs the fragrance OF peach
The concerts gave as also fifteen minutes
with Mr.. Sygomer. the freak lmJator or
animals who was at Roster * blaL during
the past season.
We shared the stateroom with an Ameri-
can yiolin4st, Miss Ida Brandth, VINO As So-
ing abroad for the urst time. Sue intends
making Il concert tour through Germany,
France and England, FOR, like the othcr
American artists, she has concluded that
one must first make reputation abroad
before striving for general recognition IN
the United States. She carries. however,
number of American honors with her across
the water She took the highest award as
profess ,onal yirtuoso in the woman's build
Ing at Chicago. In the New York schools
she received tho grand gold medal from
CX-Mayor Grace. and during the last Two
years she has appeared as violin soloist
at the Scidl Society concerts i'm Brooklyn
and New orE. She is the youngest WO-
man violinist now before the world, which
she viii undoubtedly conquer She bears
an attractive presence is the biouu WaNen
type with clear-cut sensitive features.
Land in Sight.
But enough Of all these people, and the
boat of which each and every one of them
was so heartily tired before that sunny
Thursday morning that gave up the sight
of land for the first time in seven days.
An air insolently gleeful ana superior per-
vaded al the passengers who We're to land
at Plymouth, and those who had
LONGER voyage before them looked on al
their merriment with envi0us eyes.
What a day It was! The sun shone
surely not SO fine when julius Caesar in
a barge Of beaten gold first set his purple
sails into the dove gray and greenish
waters Of that little harbor.
The Kipling Englishman stood with his
hands in his pockets and his eyes shin
ing Ike the sea below. He had forgot
ten the American girl entirely. I could
understand how his heart was humping
beneath his waistcoat. There was a glad
ness within me, too, not like his own, but
an Individual gladness at the sight OF
land. and a beautiful land at that and a
happiness at the thought of a release from
the sound of so many foreign tongues,
and beyond all this a gladness at the
realization of a wonderful dream / had
dreamed, and that at this moment OF
fulhllment l approached with reverent
wondering awe. i came 70 it without a
guide book and what l have to tell in
ths first letter is just OF England as il
seemed to meas it felt to me with the
thought OF kings and queens and castles
of Shakespeare and Wordsworth and Ten