The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1901-09-05
Around the World Pleas
antly Arranged.
THE SOCIAL UNION
Deserve Much Praise for This Most
Excellent Entertainment.

records in circling this mundane
sphere, but an excursion party
toured the world last Thursday
making the trip in two hours and
crowding into that time more fun
and valuable information than are
ever relegated to the experience of
a common tourist.
This excursion, which crossed
the seas on terra firma, was under
the personal direction of the Ladies'
Social Union of the M. +. Church,
and sustained and augmented the
remarkable reputation which its
members have long had for being
skilled and original entertainers.
At $3.50 p. M. the New York
ticket office was open, and Mrs,
Morgan, the agent for the Social
Union Steamship Company, hand
ed out long official looking tickets
bearing five detachable coupons.
These tickets were good for one
day only, because of the low rate,
twenty-five cents for the round
trip. The company had well furn-
ished quarters in the library build
ing, and in connection with their
ticket and baggage rooms owned
a little lunch room, which in
honor of the excursion, was gaily
decorated with flags and banners.
This little cafe had simple lunch
of sandwiches and coffee, but it's
counters were crowded by molly
throng that heartily enjoyed the
service. 1t may be that those that
poured the rich, brown beverage
and served the ham, trimmed buns,
made the final lunch on American
soil thus delicious, for they were
very gracious to their patrons and
not at all like the customary maid
who serves you with chauffeur"
and fire in her eye. We had time
before our boat left the pier to
learn their names, though we were
sorry that unlike the customary
waiter maid, they were too demure
and too much married for flirta-
ton. For the satisfaction of their
husbands we frankly say that
Mesdames Case, Aplin, Spielman,
Sparks, Strawn and Rochester are
very reliable lunch counter girls,
and Mrs. Larimer and Mrs. Hus-
ten did the whistle-bell act very
metropolitan.
The first landing we were told
would be Ireland, and after Purser
Sparks had taken up tickets, the
passengers sat on deck while their
steamer plowed the Main, and
many stories of Irish wit were
told, and half mythical tales of
the saints and snakes Of the Emer-
aid Isle. In fifteen minutes a
glad shout hailed the first sight of
the green grass cav auld" Ireland
at the Bates landing. Mrs.
Charley O'Smith from Cork, was
a typical Irish matron and received
the tourists in native costume,
acting in her official capacity as
steamer agent. At the little
Irish hotel, where rye bread, boil
ed potatoes, also in "native cos
tune" and buttermilk were serv-
ed, the guests were not disappoint-
ed in their anticipations of Irish
beauty. The mug of buttermilk
was all the richer for being served
by the very charming Misses O.
Bates, and the bread and potato
were rare caviar because served
by sunny-haired Eva O,Naile, and
Irma McStinchfield; while the
plates that Edith McLeyshon
polished, shone like mirrors. Dur
ing the sightseeing expeditions
Robert O'Kern guided about the
lakes of Killarney, where tiny
Irish hut boasted of a pig in the
parlor. O'Kern assisted by Mrs.
McWarner, Blanche O'Stroupe and
Leila McVail beautifully and feel
ingly rendered "My Name is Patsy
Murphy" Miss Ida McFickell
was mistress of Blarney Castle,
inveigling each and all to taste
the potent elixir of the Blarney
Stone, or read the fortune toldl in
the surface of the Wishing Spring,
and her former associations with
that famous stone prevailed on
feminine weakness, and the kissing
or wishing for husbands in the
near future, was the most eniov-