The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

the territorial legislature, just adj
1ourned. who have two or more Kill
| ings" to their credit. These yarns APP
peal because they are proof that the
Southwest is not a hopelessly finished
product yet-that it is still a civiliza-
ton In the making offering many OPP
| portunities for excitement and adven-
| ture.
| Arizona, in the Pine Forests beyond
| Flagstaff March 22.-This has been a
day of unparalleled beauty and ev-
! cry one In the party is so impressed
| with the loneliness of the country, its
| forest clothed hills, white with a snow
| that fell yesterday, its mountain
streams, by its bracing air, brilliant
| sunshine and bright blue sky, that I
| again and give that house party at my
ranchito-that-is-to- in Arizona. II
regret to learn that this timber land,
| however, is all owned or controlled by
| the lumber trust.
Two broad ladies weighing in at
| about 200 each were in the dressing
room this morning exchanging hair
| raising tales of the perfectly awful adj
ventures that had befallen lone wo-
| men travellers. While they were tell
4 ing of the dangers of the drawing
| room (Pullman) and the perfidy of
| porters our particular porter raped
| on the door and handed me my poe
textbook, containing my money, and
|
| and watch. had left it in my berth,
| of course. 1t takes one person to fol-
| low around after me and pick up my
| purse and the porter had assumed the
| responsibility this time, just to show
| the exception that proves the rule that
| my fat friends were expounding. And
/ found that about all, when sifted
| down, the stories these tinid sparroWs
were telling amounted to was this:
| a man looked at them in the sleeping
| Che had tO-thPV in his
| range of vision) or the porter didn't
| answer the bell the first time they
| rang.
1t has become a truism that the far
Their west one goes the greater is the
respect and reverence for women and
the more absolute does her safety, in
city or country. at any hour of the day
or night become. 1 sat up until train
time (2:50 a. mo- at Gallup to do some
work. I was in the hotel office and
there was poker game going on
across the hall. When I had talked
the last man in the office into a
somniferous state and he left to go to
4 bed he asked me if I was afraid to
stay alone. 1t had not occurred to
: me to be, but at this suggestion 1
inquired whether I ought to be. 80.
no." he answered. you were never
safer in your life and never will be
again. 1 thought, maybe, because this
, is a rough looking place, you might
! be nervous. But nobody here even
| locks their DOORS.
Wish 1 were a Real Author and
: could give my travel notes title. But
in Kansas, you have to go abroad, to
: do that. Then, if you like, you can
call your stuff The Jayhawker in Jur-
: Daily Dope of a (Atchison) Globe
| Trotter. A Topeka girl. Miss Helen
McClintock. who was in California last
year published a pamphlet about her
| trim for nir LOT ion l.
: ed it "California as 1 Seen 1t and
) What it Done to Me- Can you beat
it?
We have some of those pompous
folks, who take drawing rooms and
5 keep the porters hopping to answer
their rings, on the train today. They
: are a railway attorney and his wife,
pompous. Although they have the
drawing room they are not exclusive
and spend all their time out in the car
: with the Plain Peepul and although
they have been every place and their
children are in Paris they send post
cards from every Harvey house, just
like the rest of us. I loathe post card
fiends. 1t makes me perfectly furious
= when my friends go away on extended
tours and I stay at home and slave,
to have them send me alluring cards
from mountain, sea or the Other Side,
5 saying ''Wish you Wuz hefe!" But
3 here I am deluging the mails and
: sending cards from every station.
r There is a woman on this car who
has been away from home ten days.
= (She lives in Pasadena and has been
E up to Chicago to have her nails man
icured) and her husband hasn't writ
= ten to her Once. Just for That she
has told everybody on the car about
the Mean Old Thing
: Barstow, California, March 26-
{ Here we are back at Barstow after a
night at The Needles where we gave
a concert, and two days in San Fran
CISCO concert at Richmond. a Los An
geles suburb, Wednesday night. No
matter how prepared you are for 1t
l California is unexpected This after
due deliberation and many confessions
t from fellow travellers. Now I didn't
r expect much of it, because 1 was so
A enthusiastic about Las Vegas, Albu-
querque, Gallup and every station in
t Arizona in turn that 1 simply knew
: California couldn't be any better than
: what we had seen. Most people, how
ever, go to California expecting too
= much and they are the tourists who
= grunt all the time they are here,
arouse the wrath of the resident Cali
= fornians-the most loyal people on
} earth, by the way-and go home and
| all that in them is. We dropped down
t to The Needles after our ride over
81 the mountains and through the pine
forests of Arizona arriving at the lit
2 tie railroad town on the edge of the
3 desert just about dinner time. And
in honor of our arrival it was raining
r the first rain in nobody knows how
: long at Needles-and the predictions
of the people to whom we had raved
over the cleanliness and comfort of
our trip: wait until you reach the
l | California DESERT" were set at naught.
/ You know how, just before you cross
. the Colorado river at Needles over
g zone of the longest cantilever bridges
e in the world" there is a little station
Y set in garden of palms and willow
9 trees-a Veritable oasis? Well, we
D reached this just before daylight faded