The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

/ ly interesting. Look for me on the
custom house boat as you enter the
bay. Am working the water front for
the Bulletin. The water front is not
an easy job for a fellow born and
raised in Kansas. I never heard Of
aft larboard, port, leeWard, star
I board, etc. Am having an awful time
with Hawaiian names. If the day is
clear when you enter Honolulu bay,
prepare to see a beautiful sight"
Speaking of a trusting spirit: 1
have one. My trunk was packed for
me in Atchison, and do not intend to
open it until after I am at sea
brought suit case with me, for
present necessities, but very heavy
clothing for the return trip on the At
lantic, and very light clothing for
India, is in the trunk BY the way,
! the young woman who accompanies
me spent the summer at Portland,
Oregon, and has not had any hot
weather. She Will have plenty of it
before her return. On the 2. & o.
steamers, the weather viii be so hot
in January that We Will be compelled
to sleep on deck. do not know just
where this hot weather viii be en-
cOuntered: my college graduate has
gone out My impression is that she
has gone out to buy a geography, and
possibly d guide book think she IS
beginning to regret that she didn't pay
more attention to geography at Mrs.
SOmmers' school in Washington, and
less to art and architecture. When
she was graduated, she took part in a
Greek play. and her simple gown
cost me eighty-three dollars. I am
about to realize on that education.
Out here, when 1 tell people I am from
the east, they say: 80. you are from
the east"
1t is becoming pretty certain that am
approaching cate as bad as Marsh
MurdocI's, and then doubled: I have
two sons who are smarter than am.
As this is sort Oe letter home, pre-
sumo no one will care much if say
Eugene is a. fine young man. He is only
nineteen years old, and for year past
has been d reporter on the Portland
I OregOnian the leading paper of the
I Northwest coast His sister is disposed
4 to find considerable fault with him, but
I take his side: a boy of nineteen who
can hold d Job like that is all right.
! And there is another Victor Murdoch in
my family at Honolulu; he has just re-
/ signed a good position on the San Fran
I cisco Chronicle, to accept a better one
! in Honolulu. Neither of these young
men were graduated from an exclusive
/ Washington school. and it is true they
/ occasionally use big words that do not
/ mean what they think they mean, but
/ they have good positions, and every Sat
J uIuaE night ln6E get d pay GAlNEiOBC-
/ I remember that Mattel usSd to pick
/ at Eugene when they were little. /
/ once took these two on a trip when they
/ were almost babies. and the girl was
always chasing the boy with wash
rag We went out to Wyoming. and
/ when we arrived there. the boy was so
dirty that Mrs. B. B. Brooks, our hos
/ tesa was compelled to put him through
I two waters, and blue him, to get him
clean. Mrs. Brooks. poor woman, had
= 20
! follow the AtchiSOn boy everywhere;
( they had never seen a boy before. as
they lived on & ranch in Wyoming. Ev-
cry time I looked out the door, saw the
! boy running to one Of the lrr1gatlng
/ bitches, where he had water wheels in
( operation, or gopher traps set and be
/ hind him. stTinging along from the one
! of two to the one Of nine, We're the
I Brooks girls. Last summer these same
| girls. now pupils at Wellesley. visited
( father delivered an address as governor
/ of Wyoming. the AtchisOn boy made
/ a report of the affair for the OregOnian.
Those boys of mine have done so well
that I viii he compelled to take chlorO-
form to keep from talking about them.
The nineteen-y ear-oId one has always
had a habit of doing whatever I sug-
gest: I think he regrets he is taller than
I am. because he knows I do not like
it. When he was twelve years old,
suggested that he learn TO set type. He
/ worked so hard that I begged him to
Quit. He has not amounted to much
vet.
I heard him say awhile ago that he
never rode in a hack except when Isa-
bel Walker took him to a leap year
party-but he has plenty of time ahead
of him. When he first began as re-
porter on a strange paper, his work was
so bad that we at The Globe office al
most screamed when we read the papers
he marked, and sent us. But we noted
that within a week or two, he seemed
to be doing a little better. In month
he was a good deal better, and he is
better now than he was then. If a young
man win improve a little every month
nothing can keep him down. If the
young man will continue to take my ad-
vice, 7 Will make him president. DC
not know a good deal, but I have haC
a great deal of experience; I have beer
through the woods ] know the places
/ to avoid Jim. the other boy, is also
/ disposed to take my advice, and ] sup
pose I viii make him president first, bui
he shall have only one term, for he was
very tough when little I used to dis
cover that he hadn't been to school foi
a month. and when [ TeDrimanded hin
for it. he would run off. and I would
advertise for him in the paper. But he's
all right now: ne has already advanced
to a place where he is able to ride on
in the custom house boat to meet incom
ing ships at Honolulu
am ENJOYING my visit with the
children. after separation of two
4 years. We have two connecting rooms
with bath between. In my room
there is one of the new double beds
sleep in one and the young mar
sleeps in the other. Girls always have
the best of 1t. so the girl has a room
to herself. Another reason I am tax
ling her on my trip. so much attention
is paid to women. Usually when yoJ
sF4f
must pamper the purser. in order t.
secure a favorable seat at table. Blu
this time I paid no attention to tina
matter: the fact that I had a woman
with me insured US good seats. HAD
IN Travelled alone. I would have had {
, bad seat. The worst seats are alwav!