The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
That Is To Reporters But To
a Passing Motorist They
Tell a Most Roman
tic Story.
FAMOUS ENGLISH NOVELS
Mrs. Charter and Her Daughters Phyl-
lis and Marguerite, Visit Kenosha
On Walking Trip From Seattle
To New York City.

How Do They Get This Way EBERT
They certainly looked wild but they
didn t talk or act it. Their clothes
were rough and ready but their English
was refined and their French was
commendable for its absence; their
faces were bronzed but unrouged.
As they stalked down Main street in
their bobnailed boots, they refused to
talk to anyone and especially ire
porters''. They "were just strangers
passing through Kenogha on their way
! from Seattle to New York only this
] and nothing more. On all other points
and more especially on bhe matter Of
their identity they were as uncommuni-
cative as Poe's raven or the great
silence that Service writes about
!" Are you a part of show or some
thing9o a mere man asked as he
looked at their khaki walking suits
and strange mannish- hats worn at
most outlandish angle.
9tThat's a part Of our own affair, J"
came the answer from the older of the
uAiASO WOAAiOA} WIN " do 0Rpdl OAIIy tAC
spokesman for the party. There was
something firm but nothing venomous
in her tone. AS she stood there she
took a stronger grip on her walking
staff bnt further than that showed no
signs of nervousness Of any kind. The
younger women merely looked on or
| smiled triumphantly but not firtati-
ously. They seemed to have perfect
confidence in their friend s ability to
handle this or most any situation.
20 | will tell you, the older woman
lrelented, that I'm a writer and that
| IA walking from Seattle to New York.
When / get there I m going to write
book and call it Christina Columbus
Christopher Columbus had nothing on
US. We're rediscoyering America. =
The rest was silence, as "Bill''
Shakespeare has expressed it.
Woman to Woman STUFF.
It's patent fact that women can
keep secret from man but not from
each other And after all the mystery
folk were just women in spite Of their
Sam Browne belts, knit socks and sus-
picious looking canteens. Accordingly,
when they were overtaken on the Sheri-
dan Road by another woman in q
comfy motor-car they accepted o
lift and talked freely. She--meaning
the motorist- told q friend, who had a
husband, who in turn relayed the story
to his mere men-friends. This is it.
English Women OF Culture.
The travellers were not wild women
at ALTAR from it. They were Mrs.
Marguerite Remington Charter, fam
Gus English journalist, and her daugh-
ters, Phyllis and Marguerite. Mrs.
Charter is a graduate of a select sem
mary In London and the girls were at
tending school in Belgium when the
Germans invaded that country and made
1t unsafe for English gentle-women.
Alter series Of most narrowing ad-
ventures the Misses Charter secured
passage from Ostend for England and
subsequently came with their mother
from London to Seattle, Washington.
That was In 1914. Since that time,
Mrs. Charter and her daughters have
lived IN Seattle, where the girls attend
ed school while their mother was be-
coming famous along the Coast as
short-story writer and essayist. In
April OF the present year they started
their walking trip from Seattle to New,
OK, on which they have already worn
out three pairs each of heavy walking
shoes reinforced with hob-nails ct
cetera.
Mice Didn't Daunt Them.
" It has been interesting but un-
pleasant at TINES !, Mrs. Charter ad.