New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-12
A NEW VIEW OF EUROPE
Seen Through the Eyes of an
Eleven. Year.0ld Girl.

Women Of Norfolk. Va. recently obtained
from the publishers OF The Nirginian
Pilot" the privilege OF themselves issuing
an edition Of that daily newspaper. the
proceeds TO go 10 the Norfolk Protestant
Hospital.
Tho newspaper contained twenty-four
pages Of seven columns each. filled with
news gathered and prepared by women and
with editorials and poems and special ar
tices Submitted by women. and then these
same women went into the highways and
impartially invited the stranger and init
mate friend to purchase The Paper Of
To-day"
The enterprise proved to he financial
;.s well rs an artistic triumph. many old and
Young women OF Norfolk selling papers so
last on that day tina; it was impossible 10
fud the time to max" chanse-a situation
that provoked among the customers only
| favOTabl" comment
! one Of the contributors was Little Sirl
eleven years old. Last year she travelled
| I'm Edroue and she kept a diary II was an
: entirely unsupervlsed document and can
scarcely fail To appeal strongly by its
quick perceptions. lis childish naivcte and
It's unqucstionarle literary quality. The
name Of the youthful author is kept Sc
cret at the request Of her parents.
} Extracts from her diary follow:
! :. s Lapland. May 81 l9ll.-It is beat
/ tiful day. am looking out OF the portfolio
! watching the rainbows where the waves
: break The SEA, or rather ocean. is dark
/ blue. light blue. middle blue and green. /
am waiting for j to go down 10 break
! I bun az | not HI
/ tie girl yesterday who is ten years old and
very horyd do not know the other girls
/ yet. take up more room than | ought.
but each day is so chock full and want
/ this diary interesting.
MAY o2-I woke up AZ $50 - clock his
! morning | wanted To see what kind OF
weather we had Then. at $. took a bath.
III went ahead and was TO follow. rhe
/ stupid cabin 10y took me into the gentle
mars cabin where they battle was so
I embarrassed | nearly died. The water was
/ very cold when | fist got in, but after
/ ward | would not have given IL up for
/ worlds. being salt water, pumped right up
! from the ocean. lId exactly like virginia
/ Beach bath II was. oh. so deep, up to my
! neck had a fine time splashlng. | am
! going to take a promenade nov.
Later am sitting on horse on the up,
up deck. rrhc wind Is blowing a hurricane.
! D and 4 are on the gym board. skin
ming the cat. played a lot OF games
this morning shuttle board, jumping the
rope and acting on the bars. | will have
10 stop now. the wind is blowing so hard.
Nav IS. of the Isle OF Wight All the
,avs on board ship arc the same except
the last three Last night we had an en-
northumberland, singing and remarks.
and one manuscript found i'm portion. OF
the chicken fricassce. called Tine Voyage
of the Iapland." 1t was ridiculous.
MAY -. 1871. Antwerp. Belgium.-I had 10
pinch myself several times before | could
r,nlia. | was in Belgium We got there
tvaly, hours before We expected The ca
thcdral is beautiful. especially the steepie
We'll might Napoleon compare II To piece
,f M,chln lace. We passed 10y the Musee
,nti.ur IL is very, very old.
oar hotel Is charming. II has 4 'ohri
yard with flowers shrubs. fountains and
goldfish. and the walls are white brick.
our trunks were examined without a BIT
of t"ouble c. and We're waiting until
they had finished doing 1t up. A porter
came up and jabbered French at us hard,
hut said decidedly: Nous ne pdrlons pas
Francois" This quenched him and he dis
appeared