The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-11-02
NATIVE ~JERSEYITE'S
VISIT TO BALTIMORE
Mrs. L. Berthe Mcmahon Writes at
Length Upon Her Visit and De-
scribes Places of Interest.


Do you notice what one of the most
modest traits of an American man, an
American woman, an American boy,
an American girl, and even both sexes
of American babies is? We do not
think a thing of our country-outside
of such little matters as-that it is the
finest country in the world, the best
country in existence, and the only
! country on Earth. Each place one
visits the inhabitants thereof have the
same timid opinion of that particular
place. Here in Baltimore, where |
was making a visit to my husband, on
the principle of Mahomet and the
mountain, the opinion of value seems
to be, could anyone imagine anything
to equal it," though the opinion is
very graciously given. Judging by my
very pleasant stay so far, the lovely
City itself, and the charming people
have met, l agree this much, and add,
But you ought to see III little coun-
try place-Idlewood-of course there
is lots of room for more buildings, but
just wait ten years from nowi" And
/ mean it, too. Besides, it pays to ad-
v~ertise, we are told by The Pleasant
vile Press. But first of all, an Amer
lean is always an American. There is
an old, but very illustrative story told
of this characteristic of ours. Some
"Britishers," as they say in the trop-
les, trying to make one of our country
men admit that they did have some
thing over there that might exceed
/ something over here, showed him am
ong many other wonders of their trav-
els, that always just elected a 'Hur-
rah for America" one of the Worlds
Wonder VOLCANOES, and to this he ex-
planned, that we had some little old
water works here, called Niagara Falls
J that would put that fire out in about
five minutes. AS a final test they de-
c1ded upon a scare, toward the wee
small hours after a celebration of a
night before the morning after; they
secretly placed him in a morgue Jul
rounded by innumerable of the dead,
presently effects wore off, and after
going through the preliminaries of
awakening, Sir U. S. began to take
notice, and this is how he figured out
his condition: This is the Day of
Judgment over here, and | am the first
man up-Hurrah for America"
He was polite about it, too. In the
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me she once received word that a
Costa Rican Bank had failed, in which
she yearly had deposited a hundred
dollars-birthday gift from husband
and extra small savings. While in
Panama a letter came finally, dispel
ling the last forlorn hope that the ru
mors were not true, and after wedding
out the facts from the flow of f1owery
Eenona1 tlie &c r-hof thu CDor;eh ~,
terpreter smilingly informed her: "To
the Sonora X, United States of Amer
lea. pleasure to inform you that the
Bank is Bust" Human nature is just
bound to balance somehow, isn't it
Always a certain amount of humol
with the tragic. | listened to a funny
illustration of this one day by a small
boy, who was introducing another five
year-old to a new relative. This is
my little friend, Auntie," he said, I'VE
get along fine. Sometimes he hits me
on the bean, sometimes l hit him or
the beam"
My visit to Baltimore began on the
End of July, so as to be in time for the
Sd of July celebration at the Plant
and which | would have been yer.
sorry to have missed. Of course there
was the usual raising of our flag
though the hero, who was to pull the
cord for unfurling, fell asleep at the
post on his Daddy's shoulder. The
speech of the day made me know this
just why we are fighting. for l always
have had rather a vague feeling about
it-frst, that Our Country is Our
Country "for keeps; second, We new.
er yet have failed to extend a helping
hand; and third, when courtesy, good
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