Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-29
IS NOW ON TIE HOME srRETcH
DR.. Porter Gives Interesting Resume Of
Foreign Observations
AT SEA. NEARING New York


EDITOR CENSOR: l nave been four
America, Africa, Asia Minor and Eur
opa. / have slept in forty different
beds and every one has been clean,
with no trace Of bug. flea or other YER
min. Every room except one has been
clean. In the Madeiras and in Egypt
the rooms were elaborate ones with
ceilings fourteen TO sixteen feet high,
and tall enameled bedsteads enclosed in
gauze. Everywhere the butter furnish
ed me has been of choicest quality. Ii
has been unsaited and uncolored and
until reached England furnished only
at breakfast time. The bread until |
reached Amsterdam was hard shelled
but sweet and nutritious. The milk
supply of Egypt Is mostly bad. Unless
from English dairies 1t Ia unfit to use.
Australian butter IL used there. The
milk of Switzerland and France was
the best l found. That of Italy is clean
but MIXED from 1, " or goat into bot
ties at the door; 10 not cooled or aerat-
ed. | should say milk production
reaches the acme Of perfection In Swift
zerland. Their cows are well bedded;
the people are clean, and they have
an abundance of good water from the
hills In which TO cool It. The chocolate
factories are an educative force there,
too. This country, Bavaria, Germany,
Holland and Belgium constitute clean
belt, the women as q whole being &c
markedly neat thrifty housekeeGR.
From the time / left Italy until | rekth-
ed London ! saw little evidences of
poverty. IL was in the British Islands
that ! saw greatest evidence of dire
poverty. London has an immense pau
per population and Belfast, Dublin and
Cork have thousands of men and wo-
men out cf work. Landing in Belfast
by boat / was besieged by boys and
men wishing TO carry my grip TO earn
money to buy breakfast. had seen
no such willing helpers since leaving
Egypt. In Dublin it was the same.
II was queer / should meet John Lake
and wife In Glasgow. He showed me
around the beautiful city of Edinburgh
which is one of the finest | have seen.
In Glasgow | heard about eighty wo-
men speak in that many minutes. Ii
was grand gathering of brilliant wo-
men from forty-four countries, the
closing meeting of the worlds quad
Stevens of Maine presided as she did
voice. The Countess of Carlisle is pres
ident. She is plain old English WON
an with a great big heart. She sent
the treasurer her check for SIS, 900. She
made a short speech and her young
daughter was called on. never heard
such beautiful soulful speeches as those
two women compressed into six min
utes' time. A baroness from Germany
spoke beautifully. But Miss Anderson
Hughes of New Zealand, robust
young woman with q wealth of brown
hair through which ran an eagles
feather, and from whose shoulders.
hung native dress reminding one of
the white and black quilts of the porcu-
pine strung on long threads, told this
story: "A Maori woman coming out
of the copse with baby in her arms
and leading two-year-old child, went
to the police court where the judge sem
fenced her husband to six months in
jail for getting drunk. As her husband
was led away she turned on the judge
and said: why don't you shut up the
rum instead of shutting up my mani"
The British Isles are beautiful now.
The hedges in many places are bloom
ing with white flowers and they make
the whole country beautiful. For quiet
rural beauty believe England surpass-
es any country have passed through.
The good ship Carmania rides wonder
fully steady today. She has no en-
gines, simply turbines like those in a
water mill. I have not been sea-sick
at all. but have eaten little and lain on
my back much of the time. A dollar
tip gave me a good two-berth room all
TO myself. Six shillings to the table
steward brings me the finest of fare.
am studying whether to go to Ellis
Island with the fine body of young
Swede and Irish immigrants. don't
have TO go, but am little interested
to see the performance of adopting an
American citizen. 1t is wonderful how
pleasant these common foreigners make
Il for the tourist. / have not been
jostled hardly in the whole trip Ev-
erybody has been 30 kind and helpful.
have hardly heard q profane word in
the whole trip until reached Ireland.
In getting the most out of life We have
much to learn from the common people
of Europe c. v. PORTER.