Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-15
is GREAT TRAVELLER
sEvEN-YEAR-oLD GIRL is coN-
sTANTLy ON THE GO.
Has Journeyed About 100000 Miles.
or Equivalent Of Eleven Times
Around World ~ Has Met
Three National Rulers. KILN


Three National Rulers. .e
st, Louisa very little girl with a
very long name who has spent her
short life In travelling very long dis
lance, is stopping at the Washington
hotel on Kings highway with her par.
ants, Mr.. and Mrs, George e. Moran,
of Chicago, on her way to her third
trip to the KIondike, to spend the
summer
Her name is Kathryn Leonora
Adelia Glenwood Moran, and she is
only seven years CID Her name Is
Glenwood because she was born at
Glenwood Springs, Col. and she be-
gan her travels very soon afterward.
In her short life little Miss Moran,
who is pretty, unspoiled and lovable
child, has travelled about 100000 miles,
or the equivalent of about IL times
around the world.
X. L. A. G. Moran also has had the
distinction of spending three summers
in Alaska and as many winters In
Florida. She has met three national
rulers-the president of the United
States, the emperor Of Germany and
the king Of Spain-and the pope Of
Rome, and has souvenirs from
them all.
She has never had any other home
than hotel, but unlike many chill
dren reared in hotels, she Is not In
the least blase or spoiled, but is as
pleasantly childish and as innocently
gay as any youngster reared in q
country home.
Kathryn has had pages and pages Of
newspaper stories written about her,
but has not read them. Her mother
and father have kept them from her.
The Paris Figaro, the London Times
and other foreign papers have de-
voted space to telling of her steam
ship trips, how she has ridden mule
back over the mountains of Spain, of
her travels by stage, canoe and train
III many strange ways, in all countries,
and she has been photographed, and
made more fuss about than II she had
been spetted prima donna or an
American duchess, but she does not
know 1t.
These details of her life have been
kept from her by her parents.
Her education, during her constant
travels, has been attended to by her
mother, and she can read and write
and has the rudimentary education of
other children of her age, but vast
ly greater knowledge Of the geography
of the world.
1t Is rather startling to hear her
speak of the capitals Of Europe, the
towns and cities of the United States,
and the out-of-the-way places Of the
globe, with the intimate acquaintance
ship of an old and seasoned globe-trot-
ter.
There is hardly q hotel, In a town of
5000 or more inhabitants, in the
United States, that has not her name
on its register, and 1t is also known
in hotels and inns in all the countries
In Europe.
KathVn has made the acquaintance
of the governor of every state In the
union, and has been present at more
public functions than possibly any
child in the world.
Yet she is as delighted at the pros
pect Of going to the Klondike for a
summer outing as any child who had
never been there. She is going, this
time, by Skagway and the White
Horse rapids and down the Yukon.
She speaks Of this as very ordinary
trip.
did you ever catch any Ash up In
that country" man asked her at the
Washington hotel.
Kathryn looked at him pityingly,
and at her father.
Tell him, DEAR" he said.
Il caught a salmon there" she an
ewered. Smiling at the look of aston
iShment on his face at the thought OF
girl Of her size catching Ash
larger than herself. she added: eyes,
and ! did 1t with mammals button
hook
The nan laughed incredulously.
Il was at Ketchlkan, in Alaska,
where the fish are 80 thick that the
rivers viii hardly hold them" she con-
tinued. Il was sitting on river bank
and the baby salmon were swarning
in the shallow water. There were sew
eral Indian children with me. We
could pick the fish out Of the water
with our hands. Mamma let me have
her buttOnhook, and pulled a lot Of
fish out Of the water by fastening IT
in their gills, and then papa threw
them hack again y ef