The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-11
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Among American women who are travel
ing in Europe there is none who has OBJ
served foreign life with keener apprecia-
ton and enjoyment than has Mrs. Harry
S. Sinnige of Birmingham, who went
abroad with her husband early in the sea-
son. She has enjoyed the advantages not
usually permitted tourists since, with her
husband, she has been the guest at many
beautiful private houses and has thereby
seen something of social life.
In a recent letter to friends in Birming
ham she writes charmingly of the sum-
mer that has passed SO happily for her.
She wrote from Amsterdam, Holland,
where she was the guest of relatives:
Had 1 my way | should like to remain
in Europe two or three years. 1t is impos-
sible to see the world in six months is
the American method of travelling. We
came to Holland in May and remained one
month This is a wonderful little coun-
try--too much cannot be said of Holland
1t deserves much praise for its wonderful
be auty, cleanliness and energy. 1 have
never seen anything to equal the neatness
of this people. The houses are kept per-
fectly, the food very wholesome and fine,
and the servants are without flaw. 1t is
delightful to live in a country of cleanli-
ness and beauty combined. Until America
learns to keep clean it will not be pretty
country. The life here is of course entirely
different from ours. Every woman is
model housewife and seeks 10 pleasure
outside of her home. | have met many
Holland women, all charming and not one
has ever heard of a woman's club they
have no ambition to become up-to-date
fin de steele; therefore they are much hap
pier than restless ambitious American
women. 1 shall speak of the fine gardens
and the beautiful, quaint country when
we meet We spent one month in Switzer--
land, which of course is country of Won
derful beauty. As Jean jacques Rousseau
said, so l cry: IT'S impossible to describe
glorious Switzerland. Paris is by far the
greatest city in the world in all respects
except one, and that is comfort. New York
has the advantage here.
THE women of Paris models of fash
ion as well as of refinement They are
fascinating to speak to well to look
upon. There are no women as perfectly
gowned and as chic as the French There
is no reason why all women should not
be we'll gowned l attribute the imperfec-
lions of our own sex to laziness, not 70
lack of money.
Paris is wonderful in so many ways
its boulevards thanks to Napoleon the
Third, its fine art treasures and its wo-
men make it the one city of the world.
l enjoyed the exposition. 1t is very beau
tiful although there is almost too much of
it. America had a shockingy poor exhibit,
due, no doubt, to United States Commits
sioner Peck of Chicago, who must have
confiscated the money for social use. Ger
many, Italy and Russia had exquisite dis
plays. American machinery had quite a
good showing. Our only redeeming feature
was Sousas Band, which has created a
furore in every place in Europe. We at
tended a concert here Sunday night, at
which there must have been ten thousand
thusiastic. The floral tributes were many
and very fine. l enjoyed the enthusiasm
of the Hollanders.
The theaters in Europe are all dingy,
badly lighted and very antiquated in ap-
pearance. The Grand Opera in Paris does
tan in New York. With all Europe's at
fractions, / thank God to have been born
an American. The eyes of the entire world
are turned towards that glorious country. Ii
we give Cuba it's liberty We shall then be
beyond reproach.