The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-05
MRS. HYDE'S
TRAVELS
She Tells of Them
To Woman's
Board.
.GLIMPSES OF
THE OLD WORLD
interesting Features of the Meet
ing of Women Devoted to
the Missions.

II HE Woman's Board of Missions
met as usual at 2:3O p. m. yester-
u day, and Notwithstanding the rain
there was a large attendance.
The ladies of the board were all eager
to welcome home their president, Mrs.
C. NJ. Hyde, who has been absent for
nine months from her much-loved
work. 1t was a pleasure to hear her
familiar voice in the opening exercises
and her lucid exposition of Scripture
A prayer of thanksgiving for the re-
turn followed from the Vice President,
with petitions for blessings on the
work Reports of the various auxiiar-
les followed. A letter from Armenia to
Mrs. L. B. Coan, acknowledging the do
nation to the Armenian orphans and
sending a photograph of two boys
who have been selected as the recip-
tents of the Hawaiian Island bounty,
was a most pleasing surprise of the af-
ternoon. A most interesting letter also
from missionary lady in Mexico, pre-
sented by the Foreign Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. c. II. Dickey was lis
tened to with intense interest.
The paper of the afternoon was en-
titled, Mission Stations in the Land of
W. w. Bristol of the Kamehameha
school. 1t was a most complete and
entertaining account of missionary
work in Persia and was illustrated uy
a charcoal drawing map prepared for
herself.
The report of Hawaiian work by Miss
Laura Green was read. and SHOWS in
creasing labor by this faithful mission
airy. The japanese report by Mrs. o.
II. Gulick was of more than ordinary
interest.
But the browning pleasure of the af-
ternoon was the paper of Mrs. c. NJ.
Hyde, as follows:
After an absence OF nine months, 1
have not very much to bring you by way
of experience in Christian work or OBJ
servation of new methods Through abb
sence from the country, l missed the
meeting of the American Board to
which you appointed me as your dele
gate. l attended a meeting of the Wom-
ems Board before the season closed and
addressed meeting in Brimfeld, my old
home, standing on the spot where last 1
stood a bride, to receive congratula-
tons. L also spoke TO the ladies of the
Congregational church in Yarmouth, Me.
As you all know, l went with my niece,
Miss Hyde, in August, for a trip to
Europe. We sailed from Boston on the
Saxnia, a Cunarder of 1900 tons, and
had a most delightful voyage of eight
days, comfort and not speed being the
object sought on that line. So pleasant
was the voyage that there was general
regret on the part of the passengers
when the ship neared port.
We made no stop in Liverpool, but took
the train at once for London. The young
lady in whose company We We're, go
ing third class we went third class also.
Our week in London was one of de-
light crowded with experiences in sight
seeing, without fog or rain. No matter
how often you go to London, some places
of interest must always be revisited,
such as Westminster Abbey and the pic
ture galleries. \ day spent at Hampton
and back to London by Kew Gardens
and the Thames by boat, Nellie thought
the red letter day, but l enjoyed better
perhaps because it was new expert
ence the day at Windsor and the car
rage drive to Elton and Stoke Pogfs
where we sat under the yew tree where
GRAY wrote his "Elegy a Country
We also sat in Gray's pew
in the church and the family pew of the
Penn family, which for the comfort of
the present occupants, now mas stove
in 1t.
The second week we spent in Belgium
and Holland. Brussels is a second Paris,
and Antwerp will always stand out in
memory as the place where we learned
by experience the various ways in which
travellers can be taken in. y close study
of .'Baedeker'' after this informed us
of the various pitfalls for unwary trav-
oilers. These experiences are very en-
pertaining in the recital, but We don't
generally like TO learn wisdom in that
way Holland we found charming. espe-
cially The Hague. We did not see VIII
heIuina as she returned for the opening
of parliament the day We left the city.
Rrt we went TO the Parliament House
and sat in the chair which she was to
occupy two days later. and we visited
her royal villa known the House
in the Wood" and admired the beauti-
f,,I room in which were held the sessions
of the late Peace Congress.
Scheveningen, with its sea baths, the
most fashionable sea side resort of Hol-