Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-19

SanQ or Il patcn or green grass, ana you have been only few days away from such things, yet somehow you want to jump up and down and shout for joy.
 More than half the first class pas. sengers on our ship were Americans, coming home, and I suppose they had gone away because they wanted to go. If they had liked they could have stopped in their own country as well as not, and heard some of them say ing during the voyage that if they could they would spend nine months out of the year in Paris. But they made as much fuss over the first lump of sand we saw as If we were discovering the north pole. Some of them had taken this trip dozen times or maybe more, but any one would have thought it was as new to them Rs to me.
 It seemed as if I were sailing in a dream to a dreamand, and everything would be dream till I found myself waking up at home. If any one had pinched me hardly believe should have felt it as I stood by the rail while we steamed toward New York. We passed big fort and some neat little houses, which looked like off cers' quarters. There was Long Is. land and Coney Island, which MT. Doremus said l must be personally conducted" to see some day when I felt young and frivolous. And by and by I heard people exclaiming: There's Liberty-there she is! Bless the dear old girln'
 While I was wondering whether they were talking of lady or ship I caught sight of a majestic giantess, obligingly holding a torch up to light the world. Then I knew it was the statue which had read about.
 What do you think of herr" asked MT, Dorernus.
 "Shes a grande dame" I said. "Now I know why your girls hold themselves so well. They're trying to live up to the ideal American woman. But she isn't as big as I thought she would be. Nothing ever is as big as you think it's going to be, especially when Americans have told you about it, for one has been brought up to believe that their big things are bigger than anybody else's in the whole world"
 'So they are" said Mir. Doremus, "only where all the things are big you don't notice them for the high grass. And over there's some of the grass" j He pointed and l saw a great mum. ber of enormous objects. shaped like chimneys and apparently about mile high, scattered aimlessly along the horizon, which was a brilliant, limpid blue.
 What are they?" I asked. Great strange factories of some sort?"
 "No Houses where pretty women live and offices where men make the money for them to live on."
 You must be joking Women would be afraid to perch up there in the sky. Besides. it would take too long to go np and down"
 Nothing takes long in America And it comes natural to our women to perch up high. Statues aren't the only things we buy pedestals for this side of the porpoise tank. You just wait and see"
 q don't need to wait to see that American men are nice to women," said l. Perhaps no nicer than Eng lishmen, really, only you seem to take a. great deal more trouble Fancy all the men at Mrs Van der Windt's ta- ble drawing lots every night for the right to sit by her and the two Misses Eastman. I don't believe 1t would have occurred to Englishmen The ones who really wanted to sit there would have tried to get to their places first. that's all. I do think it was pret- y of you.'
 "Wasn't 1t? Especially supposing none of us particularly wanted-but never mind. Talking of pretty things, here are the docks"
 They were big enough to satisfy even my expectations. and l wished that I'd insisted on being taken by some one long ago to visit the London docks, so that I might know whether ours were better or worse One never thinks of going to see things at home. but I began to suspect that l might some day he stabbed with jealous bangs and need to be stuffed with a ot of facts about England, though s,ntil I knew Americans I've been in the habit of thinking facts the least interesting things in the world. They seemed like chairs to sit on or floors to walk on without noticing what you were doing but 1 suppose it might be awkward without chairs and floors.
 Soon We were near enough to New York 10 see the tremendous chimney things clearly. and they sharpened the impression that l was sailing straight into dream. There could be no such things in the real world They wouldn't be possible. But the dream felt very interesting and intense all of a sud den. and didn't want to wake up from it just then in spite of Mrs. Ess Kay.
 The tall shapes were bright and vivid now, as giant hollyhocks grow ing in irregular rows. still they did not look oue bit like houses or offices where people could work without go ing stark, staring mad. got q queer idea in my head that the houses them selves must be buried deep under L.