The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28

what does tnat mean, auntleE = 1t re-
minds me of the hats at?" (whats
thatO period of their existence. Nell
is much pleased at the progress they
have already made, the start they have
and the way they take hold.
July 80 The luxury of it all, The
waking to a silvery trumpet call, the
smiling chamberlain who brings you
hot 'wasser' to drink-the delightful
deep salt water bath to which pretty
fraulein conducts you, the leisurely
breakfast, and then a whole day with
no engagements to meet and nothing
to do! Last night a star shOne through
my portfolio so sort of bright and
CHEEKY and companionable. and the
same blessed old moon beamed blandly
and comfOrtingly. as if it said, Tn
doing the same thing for those noun
tains of yours out there-it isn't such
big world after ALL"
lonely German lad some % years
old returning from three months in our
country to do his year in the German
army, walked and talked to me TO-
night. You are such a fine modder.''
he said, ito have NIT your boys. Amer
lean modders, they are better than
German ones; they see and know and
help their kinter more You should
hafe fine men and women in your
land His own mother and father he
had lost as a child. Father Newman
is an Irish priest at Nelrs left in the
dining room. He lives at St Joe. Mo-.
but he is so Irish we can't understand
him. Then there's a patrOnizing New
Yorker in white fianneIs at our table,
and this German lad-not a wildly eX-
citing group. There are d few people
who look interesting. Our Virginia
doctor and his wife are real charm
ing. They want to take William in
the carriage with them to see Cibral-
tar. The little rascal knows everybody
on board. George continues to be a
little bilious, but CHEEKY for the most
part. Nell has picked up amazingly.
She is identifying tonight-curling her
hair Il new way. and she is so we'll and
CHEEKY and interested in the boys and
in everything.
July 81. The twins have discovered
SWITCHBOARD and quoits. The quoits
consisting Of coils of rope. and it is
with great difficulty they held them
selves to the French lesson this morn
ing. The air is 50 soft and sweet-every
breath like a caress, a touch of fairy
fingers on hair and face and the sea
is as still almost as Salt Lake.
little flag on a big map marks our
progress from noon to noon. Today
says we are 1000 miles from New York
with a limitless horizon of ocean and
nothing between us and the fathomless
depths save the decks of the Konigin
Luise. Heaven preserve her and us!
August 1. Last night a party on
deck were singing I'm the Good Old
Summer Time" and had just come to
'"Tootsie WoOtsie," when a German of
ficer passed. He paused. Vat ISIS a
Tootsie Wootsie?" he inquired, polite
ly. man in the party told him to
inquire of some girls close by. The
girls blushed and baked. and then the
German was informed that "Tootsie
WOotsie" is a kind of a sandwich He
answers now to no other name, but
takes it smilingly and in good part.
And so we fool the time away. DR..
Railand looks like George Lawrence,
and is most interesting Episcopal
clergyman, first assistant rector in
Grace church, New York
August 8. Just a week from the day
we left New York; 1t seems longer,
and yet we are in no hurry for the
ships journey to end. Yesterday we
sailed along the Azores. All day it had
been misty and we were so fearful of
not seeing the islands at all, but the
mist finally rolled up like great gray
curtain and there was the stage set for
grand Opera This particular island
was fresh washed and everything was
in place-the white and yellow houses,
the checkered fields all hedge bOrdered
then precipitOus cliffs with a water
fall or two leaping in spray to the sea,
and bit of a cove with it's church
spire and clustered dwellings, You
only needed the tenor to come out and
wall his woes to finish the scene as we
lay back in our steamer chairs and
watched through the field glasses.
Monday we are due at Gibraltar, and
this will be mailed. We plan to stay
over several days at Naples, going to
Capri, Sorrento. POmpeii. etc. Then on
to Genoa by the next Lloyd steamer
l may do a couple of days of the Ri
viera with DR.. and Mrs. Mcclure. our
Virginia friends, and let Nell and the
boys push on alone to Geneva. And so
endeth the Atlantic letter.
August ). This afternoon comes Gil
braltar The men gave the funniest
vaudeville in women's clothes-original
songs and dances-for the ladies Sat
urday night, and we women spent our
Sunday writing the "Konigin Luise
Foghorn," to be printed today by the
purser and presented to the men at
dinner. The people improve upon ac-
quaintance. l did not want to be So
ciable, and here L am gregarious as
always!