Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-02

Eulcn, VINO spend an annual mil
lion of American dollars on picture
postcards OF the Leaning and Eiffel
lowers and the doves of st. Marks
another annual million up the Matter
morn, down the Catacombs and on the
LION OF Lucerne; still another miscel
laneous million or so on French kid
gloves and flet lace; Roman pearls
and Anderson seconds Swiss chalet
boxes and Mosaic breastpins; Chianti;
Carlsbad and bad corals; Moulin
Rouge; the Coliseum by moonlight and
gondolas by the hour?
There are quicksands in the tourists
hour glass. Life is short and art was
long until Cooks lassoed the world with
larlat shaped eXcursionist's ticket.
and Baedeker compressed re thousand
nails OF the Louvre into ninety homeo-
pathlc pages; catalOgued the universe
and astcrisked the American plan and
running water of two continents.
On board the Roumania, under
southern sky so blue that it quivered
on the verge of sea green. half a thou
sand first class tourists crowded to the
lee railing of the promenade deck,
edging, iamming and levelng field
glasses at a remote line against the
blue. so thin that a school Of porpoises
might have been seen slicing the water
with their fins.
Miss Esther Lcfkovitch, tiptoeing
quiyering, and her quick eyes framed
in a fringe of blowing curls and a
pongec tourists can, grasped her left
neighbours level field glasses and thrust
them into her fathers hand.
See, papa Land Land Here look
through Mr.. Danziger's field glasses"
"Humph IIumph See Bertha, such
speck should be- land"
See, Mama Here, you look. too.
See, we're coming to Madeira. Fun
chal is the name of the town where
Mr.. Danziger? Try to remember that,
Mama-Funchal, where they '7Akc the
hand embroidery"
'F'unchal?"
mo, no, Man a . you We rot them up
side down. See. like this Anybody
could tell, Mr.. Danziger. by the way we
hold our tield-glasses that this is our
first trip to Europe"
If anybody should ask you, Esther
your papa and me crossed to America
when we was both little enough TO be
carried in arms and not on such a grand
boat like this neither, let me tell
you"
Miss Lefkovitch smiled through a
quick flush.
II didn't mean that kind of a
trip. Here. you see you hold them like
this, Mama. just like this
Mrs. Lefkovitch leaned her ample
| figure forward, focused, leaned further
to the leeward, he. lips wry with effort
and as if she tasted quincy.
"Where?"
'There. Mama. right ahead.
Here. Mrs. Lefllovitch. let me ad
just the lenses for you.
NO, no. Mr.. Danzigcr, for myself
can see. Go away"
Mama And Mr.. Dauzigcr trying tc
be polite to you"
Such expensive politencss as Mr.
Danzger's | can get cheaper"
Mama -
Just what I say I mean.
Mr.. Danzigcr plunged his hands into
his Scotch tweed pockets. and beneath
the visor of his Scotch tweed traveller s
cap smiled down at Miss Lcfkovitch
blushing there beside her mother the
rich raspberry red of shame.
''Your mama 5 all = t. Miss Esther
| She isn't going TO let any of the fel
lows on this boat get too fresh with
her, are you. Mrs. Lefkovitch:'
She would venture no reply, but
passed the field gla 'ses, via her daugh
ter. back to him.
Il tell you, Aaron. ,iott sci dank. if
that black line what we see out there
| is land under our feet. Just see how
far away it looks.
Md. Lefkovitch thrust forward a face
covered with a stubblc Of black and