The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-20
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selfshness. A girl could hardly enter,
a new life thru medium more irving.
| am suresit would need long tested af-
fections and the sweetest of tempers to
make it endurablc. - -
cannot imagine what you mean
mean that all travelling Just after
marriage is a great blunler. Travel :
ing makes the sunniest disposition hasty
and peevish, for women don't love
changes as men do. Not one in thor
sand is seen at her best while travel
ing, and the majority are seen at their
very worst. Then there is the discom-
fort and desolation of European hotels
and the ways of foreigners, which are
not as our ways. ~
"Don It talk of them, Ethel. They
are dreadful places, and such queer peo-
. :" Add to these troubles ignorance of
language and coinage, the utter weari
ness of railway travel, the. plague Of
customs, the trunk that won It pack, the
sight seeing, the climatic irritability,
broiling suns, headache, loneliness,
fretfulness- consequently the pitiful
boredom Of the new husband" -
Ethel, what you say is certainly too
true; am weary to death Of it all; |
want to be at Newport with mother,
who is having lovely time there. OF
course, Basil is very nice to me, and
yet there have been little tiffs and
Struggles gentle ones-for the
mastery, which he is not going to get.
Today he wanted me to go with him
and Canon Sheckleton to see something
would not do it. [ am so lonely, Ethel.
want to see some one. | feel fit to
cry all the time. [ like Basil best of
anyone in the world, but
q But in the solitude Of honey
moon among strangers you find out
:. that the person you like best in the
world can bore you as badly as the per
Exactly. Just fancy if we were
among our friends in Newport. I
should have some pleasure in dressing
and looking lovely. Why should 1
dress here? There is no one to see
me. - - -. -
H.Basil. +" a.- -. -~--
"Of course, but Basil spends all the
men. If we 90 out, it is to see some
thing about the poor, or about schools
and such like. We were not in Lon
don two hours until he was off to West
minister Abbey and I didn't care a
] cent about the old place He says |
must not ask him to go to theaters, but
historical old houses don & interest me
8 welI&slept in a certain ancient shabby
roomg And as for all the palaces I
have seen, my father s house is a great
deal .handsemer, and more convenient,
and more comfortable, and i. wish T
3 were there. Il hate Europe, and Eng
land / hate worst of all. =
= ttYou have not seen England. We
are all enrapeured with its beauty and
it's old houses and pleasant life.
You are among friends-at home,
as it were I have heard all about
Rawdon Court. Fred Mostyn told me.
He is going to buy it,
tsSome time this fan. Then next
D year he will entertain us, and that will
be a little different to this desolate
hotel, think.
!" How long will you be in LondonF"
Stanhope castle. but I don't want to
90 there We stayed with the Stan
1 hopes week when we first came over.
They were then in their London house,
and I got enough of them.
aDid you dislike. the familyg' -
nNo. I cared nothing about them.
They lust bored me-. They are extreme
w religious We had prayers night
and morning, and a prayer before and
after every meal. They read only very
good books, and the Honorable Misses
StanhOpe sew Tor Gne poor Olu WOHieu
and teach the poor young ones. They
work harder than anyone I ever knew,
and they call it improving the time.
They thought me very silly, reckless
young woman, and I think they all
prayed for~me. One night after they
had sung some very nice. songs they
asked me to play, and i began
with my Little Brown Rose =
YOU know they all adore the negro
and little by little dropped into the
funniest coon songs knew. and Oh
how they laughed Even the old lord
stroked his knees and laughed out
loud, while the young ladies laughed
into their handkerchiefs. Lady Stan
hope was the only one who compre
! hended I was guying them; and she
looked at me with half shut eyes il
a way that would have spoiled some
girls fun. 1t only made me the mer
rier So tried to show them cake
walk. but the old lord rose then AM