The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-02
AMERICAN WOMAN
 TOURING WORLD IN 40 H. p. LOCOMOBILE
Mrs. Clark Fisher Described , By Noted Oriental States man As "Most Remark able Woman In Amer
 ica'
HER UNIQUE EXPERIENCES

Round the world in a motor car! Even at the first glance, without thought, the expedition looks attrac- tive. But when we know that a tour of this sort is a partly accomplished fact, that the tourst is lady of wealth, who was, at one time, a work ing blacksmith, and that her entour- 'ege consists of young American En- gineer a cosmopolitan valet who can make "egg flip and sweet omelettes, an Indian servant and an Italian maid of sunny countenance from the lady's castle on Lake Como, the af- fair assumes at once romantic as- pect.
 It has a pathetic aspect too, for Mrs. Clark Fisher of Trenton, New Jersey, the lady in question, received permanent injuries in an accident on August 8, 1902, at Menlo Park on the Pennsylvania Railway; and she lost her husband, Captain Clark Fisher of the United States Navy, in that calam- ity. Mrs Fisher has just achieved a unique distinction,-she is the first lady to cross India in an automobile, the journey having been negotiated but once or twice before by male mo- torists.
 Tn touring round the World" she told the Empire interviewer at the Grand Hotel today, "I am striving to kill care rather than to derive actual enjoyment. The reception I have re- ceived in India has been wonderful right through. I was salamed," she said, from Bombay to Calcutta. I am delighted with the people, but I don't like the roads. They are not good for motor cars. At Allahabad I met an advocate of the High Court, MT. Motilal Nehru, and he introduced me to his daughters and we had a nIeaSQd with those elegant clothes the girls wear,-'Saris' you call them-and they tried one on me, and really, to tell the truth, never felt so comfortable, I did in that lovely silk thing with the embroidered border. I wonder the ladies' don't wear them in Paris, and in the South of Europe, in the summer. They are perfectly fetch ing. most graceful, and so easy to put on and to take off again, with no buttons, no laces and no hooks.
 T was terribly anxious to see ele- phants. for when a circus comes along in the States the things we want to see most are the elephants: and MT. Motilal Nehru kindly supplied the a great moving mass of anatomy in a lovely costume, with elegant designs painted on it's face and a carved box on its back. the entire outfit being simply lovely.
 "At Benares we met the Maharaja, and he entertained us at his palace, and as it was at the time of the fes- tival. or the ceremony, or whatever you call it-you know the annual bath,-we saw thousands of people taking a dip in the Ganges. Then we went to the burning ghats. And. we'll | I'm an old soldier, but what they did at | those burning ghats made me feel sick and sorry, with an inclination to- wards rapid and permanent converse ton to vegetarianism. However. I guess I'll soon get over that. We don't stay at hotels except in the big towns. We carry. tents and a cook ing stove. and my man is an excel lent cook. It was not always possible to get the food we wanted but it is wonderful what my man can do with a couple of eggs and rooster. The roads were too cruel for words, and we had to cross rivers with the water over the shoes,-the tyres you call them-and although we occasionally nut up at respectable 'dak bunga- low these places did not appeal much to our fancy, and we gypsied right through on the trail. India is a per fectly delightful place to see; but per- fectly awful. guess, to live in. The women are charming; so sweet, simple and unsophisticated. And many of the men are fine specimens too, away
  to have a hundred and one ways of trying a turban, and hundred and one ways of expressing a greeting"
 Mrs. Fisher spoke eulogistically of the Calcutta newspapers. She re- gretted, however, that they did not dying to read something about the United States" she said, pathetically The only tit-bit of information I have seen as yet, is six-line paragraph about the tram strike at Philadelphia. That is somewhere near my place. They are always having tram strikes at Philadelphia. Laziness. that's the thing that creates them. There is work for everyone in America, and wages are good; there is no cause for unemployment and no cause for strikes,-except laziness. Here, in In- way-side. when a person asks you for food he really means it. You can give him a dollar and he returns it: cause there's no food to buy, and that almighty dollar. to him, ain't worth a cent. In the States, however, it's diff ferent. It is only the loafer, there, who is really. genuinely poor; and he D is poor cause he likes to be poor; he distinctly refuses to be anything else but poor"
 Since her arrival in Calcutta Mrs. Fisher has visited some of the chief engineering firms of the city, includ- ing the Russa Works at Bhowanipore. She is, of course, collecting curios, and one of these consists of a new pig-sticking spear invented by the Maharaja of Benares. Made of the finest steel it consists of a formidable horse-pistol at the base of a lance head nearly half a yard in length, with a cross-bar. When the spear has penetrated the pig the cross-bar is pressed backwards and the trigger being released the pistol goes off. And when the Maharaja has finish ed with that pig'' said Mrs. Fisher to the Empire interviewer, "I reck- on it is not much use for sausages."
 We want to do Darjeeling," said Mrs. Fisher in conclusion, "and South ern India if we can, and we shall tour right through Burma, Ceylon, China, and Japan before we reach San Fran