The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1901-09-05

handsomely fitted up for passen-
gers. The little tea gardens Of
Japan, with their pretty palms
and colored lanterns, were visible
far out at sea and when the boat
landed at Sayrehoma, Hunter Bay,
the wearied travellers were welcom-
ed to most beautiful tea house
and served with rice and tea. Here
came another athletic, contorted,
calisthenic performance that made
tall man look like grasshopper.
1t was the sitting down Jap-fashion
on the floor to individual tables
and making strange, grotesque
gestures at the rice bowl with
wooden "kwi-tsze"-in our par
lance, chop-sticks. The lovely
Irish girls were forgotten in the
presence of these high browed,
soft voiced and soft slippered
maids of the paradise of chrysan-
themums. In their long, clinging
"kimonos," Fanna Pierce, Nella
and Zella Schwenke and Eta
Ferguson moved quietly among the
palms and screens, the lacquered
tables and harmonious colored
porcelain vases, and the tea they
poured was the most delicious
thing ever brewed in the Orient.
Mesdame Montgomera, pleasant
young Japanese lady who had been
Americanized in dress, was the
representative for the s. Steam
ship Co., at the Sayrehoma port,
from which the boats left for Ger
many, and Mesdames Oatley, Mon
roe, Sayre, Bright, Wright, Nc
Lain and Stellar bid welcome and
farewell to the jolly tourists.
1t was longer journey to Ger
many than to the others, but the
lights of McGillburg were sighted
from the North Sea, and the
merry sound of the music box
modestly cranked by little Dutch
Hessey Cook, and the cordial well
come of Frau McGill foated down
the pier on Gallagher Strasze
This nomenclature makes it plain
that the Irish had, in prehistoric
times invaded northern Germany
The German Helm, where Aben-
dessen was served was place too
artistic for English description,
and the shrill voice of Frau Nc
Gill, as she scolded her youngsters
Frauen Hansley, Bray, Risley,
Wood, Kanode, PUNK and Cook,
made the amused tourists think of
Germany not as the Fatherland
but as the Mutterland. Lunch
consisted of beans, cheese, bologna
Sausage, pretzels, bread, butter,
and coffee, with the sauce of
laughter and joke over these
bustling white-capped hostesses.
Germany, with her spinning wheel
and quilt decorations, her good
welcome and bologna sausage, was
certainly star port in this trip
around the world.
From Deutschland the excursion
steamers steered down through
tropical waters to fair Isle de Cuba
with the lights from old Moro
Castle guiding us through those
treacherous waters where the late
lamented Maine sank to the murky
bottom with her brave cargo of
human freight. On landing, Sc
nora Peckham was the spanish
purser who detached the last cou-
pom from the ticket. At the
Lytle House, fruit and chocolate
were served by charming Cuban
ladies and maids; Senoras Roches-
ter and Thurness, and Senoritas
Welty, Larimer, PUNK, Lytle and
Rochester, all of whom had re-
ceived an American education.
Two native women, who had an
excellent command of Spanish but
understood no English, shyly lurk-
ed among the palms and cacti,
and the guide, Senorita Toole,
called them Senoras Gano and
Smith. The balcony of the home
was beautifully decorated with
Cuban and American flags that
seemed to float their good will to
the blue waters of the gulf, and it
fell like a soothing benison upon