The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-07-14
AROUND TIE WORLD.
Misses Ninde Tell Of Extended Trip
to Many Lands.


Misses Kate and Leila Ninde, who
are just home from a trip around the
world, departed from their nome In
this city the first of September, 1901,
and inaugurated their trip from San
Francisco in company mwith Miss
Mary Kinsey, This lady returned, to
this country after touring Australia
and New Zealand. The Misses Ninde
continued on their way around the
globe.
The first stop was at Honolulu, and
thence into New Zealand, where a
number of weeks were spent among
the wonders of this land. They were
at many of the more populcus cities
of Australia, spending about three
months on the continent. They saw
the Philippines and were in Manila,
and went thence to Japan. They
state that the ocean trip from Aus
tralia to Japan is the most beautiful
in the world and the most enjoyable
The ladies made their way about
Japan with little or no difficulty, even
where English is an unknown tongue.
They were struck with the general
use of our language on the island and
were surprised to find that the Ian
guage is taught in every first-class
school of the land. Every Japanese
lad is overly ambitious to speak Eng
lish and his education has a lack I'M
less he knows the tongue. In China
the ladies touched at Shanghai, Hong
Kong and Canton, and then went into
the wonderful land of India. Here
they saw many things and many
places of interest. Among the cities
visited were Calcutta, Mares, Ceylon
and Singapore.
The visited the island of Ceylon,
and are profuse in their expressions
descriptive of the beauty Oh this land
At Alden they stood by the ancient
wells of Solomon. They passed into
the Egyptian country via the Suez
canal and spent a number of weeks
seeing places of historical interest.
They visited in Cairo and saw many
of the places made prominent by bib
lical history. They were in the pyra-
mids, had a ride upon the river Nile,
and saw the site of Pharaoh's palaces
and stood upon the spot where his
daughter found the infant Moses in
the bushes.
Passing along on their Journey
westward, they went to France before
making tour of Italy. They were
in Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan,
Venice and Genoa Then commenced
a tour of the continent. They were
in Germany, stopped in Berlin, Wen
ma, The Hague Of Holland, Frankfort,
Cologne and Amsterdam. They saw
bit of Bavaria and then returned ITO
France and saw Paris for num&Sf or
weeks. They made a round Of 'Swit-e
zerland and were in Geneva, Interlock-
EN- and Luzerne. Passing on id their
journey they found themselves In
England. In the entire trip they en-
countered nothing else so disgusting
and unpleasant as the trip across the
English Channel. Miss Leila, who
was ordinarily a perfect sailor, had
to give up to NAL de mer on this trip
and was very ill. They spent mum.
Der OF weeks among the interesting
cities of England, Ireland and Scot
land and embarked at Queenstown for
home.
During the course Of their trip in
the various lands it was the good for
tune of the ladies to visit many of
the imperial palaces and to see quite
a number of the rulers and sovereigns
from the prince imperial of Japan to
the khedive of Egypt. Upon coming
to America they recalled the fact that
they had never been in the, city OF
Washington, and thinking to com
pare our own capital VITA those OF
other lands, they came west via the
national capital The comparison
they make is most favorable to Wash
ington. They had the pleasure OIL
meeting President Roosevelt person
ally and they were much impressed
with the man. Indeed, their state
ments would make a good campaign
Grafton. They state that the chief ex-
ecutive of the United States has a
personality that is not to be resisted.
He impresses one with his force of
character and one can not help not
ing the great power of the man. He
is the peer OF the rulers of other
lands.
The above is a simple outline of
the tript aiken by the ladies'. They
have much of interest to tell concern
ing their tour. What they nave seen,
however, has been an incentive to
further travel and they are even now
planning for another journey into 9th.
er lands and among other peoples.
The ladies on this trip have been
away from home almost two years
and have spent several thousand dol.
lars in their travels. They have spent
about five months of the time on the
ocean and have been passengers on
thirty boats. They came home
aboard the steamer Cedric, one of
the grandest boats afioat, landing in
New York Juna IN