Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-31

One fortunate thing-Mrs Slower
kissed the blarney stone in Ireland
She discovered that macaroni is the
same in any tongue.
The furniture was ancient. "If
1t hadn't been for the bottle of &C.
ment we should have been finan-
cially embarrassed" she declared,
NBut here's the story:
An Educational Journey.
The subject Of the day might
properly include descriptions Of
cities and mountains and castles
and ruins; but these may be OBJ
tained from books. The subject
might include accounts of wars
and inventions and prosecutions
and triumphs; but, taking into ac-
count the time allotted, l shall en-
deavor to point out some things
that interested US and to make you
feel that you yourselves took the
trip with us. My chief aim is to fill
you with enthusiasm for travel. to
show the benefits and the posi-
bilities and the inexpensiveness OF
1t; for, ordinarily travelling Is
costly. If it were not so, more or
US would see the wonders of for
eign countries.
1t is a good thing to send boys
and girls away to colleges and uni
versities-and 1t is very danger
GUS thing. Even at best and when
danger does not assail. these
schools render the minimum OF
really useful knowledge for the
maximum of valuable time ana
money. And if the boy or girl dis
likes the school or the studies or IS
inclined to be hayward. then what
can be expected if the course Is
still insisted upon?
Boy Is Expelled.
A certain boy attended an ex-
pensive military institute to the
tune of more than thousand dol
lars a year. He insisted on break
ing rules and upon learning as lit
tie as possible. The authorities
bore down too hard-he WASH I
their son. He ran away, was cap
tured and expelled. Blaming the
boy wholly, the father sought 70
find a private teacher. l was or
fered the position, and proposed TO
take the boy to Europe"
The father was aghast at the suS-
gestion, it would cost so much good
money, to pay two fares and eA-
penses and salary besides.
But it was finally arranged ana
we were off. Never was a happier
boy, with his back turned upon ms
prosecutors and his face in the d.
rection of Europe. We went up
through California, Oregon anu
Washington, crossed over Canada
TO Montreal, rested there three
DAYS. taking in the sights and lay
ing in supplies OF things a boy
likes to eat, and in equipping him
with things to keep boy warm
on the ocean. Glasgow was our
first stop. Then we went steerage
over to ireland, taking along some
= books to read and study.
This liz the Life"
In Belfast we asked policeman
II he knew a cheap, clean suite Oh
rooms we could have. He did, ana
conducted us to them. AS in Gas
gov and everywhere in the British
isles, the sitting room of our suite
had a breakfast table with red
tablecloth, inviting US to make our
selves at home. We laid in elabor-
ate supplies and did our cooking on
the kitchen floor--such delicious
potatoes and buttermilk and eggs
and bacon! By day we roa
over the city and the adjoining
country, the boy playing golf with
n stick and an old tin can and say
ing. AYE, aye, this is the loife fer
a throwing bye!" Now and again
we'd sit under leafy tree to solve
a problem or to decline pronoun
or conjungate a verb, or to reah
Mark Twain or Sherlock Holmes or
Goldsmith or Dean Swift-and 10
give vent to our joy.
OF evenings we played handoall
and checkers and studied the MS
tory of Ireland and planned the
next days activities. Between
times the boy threw the ball at the
bounuets and vases and saints ana
martyrs and ancient wedding pres
ents and plaques. thickly bestreW.
inc the walls. When l put the ball
IN INV pocket he threw his cap
iust to see how near he could come
without actually bringing down
tho unoffending ornaments. The
first hours of the next morning was
ant to be spent in glulng on the
foolish wing of plaster angel the
head of Saint Patrick or an arm
az Dean Swift--for we carried
about with us a bottle or cement
that was said to make things bet
Tor than new. So our consciences
were undisturbed, and likewise our
purse. ..e,.
TO Won never went from Belfast
down through the meadows ana
nastures and bleaching green's to
Duhlin in a third-class railroad
coach. lust get good description
~ Ireland and see what you have
roissed. Imagine the trip down TO
Cork. Go out to Blarney Castle
and kiss the Blarney-Stone, then
hack to Cork in binding rain,
mast the bell of Shandon and down
r. Queenstown and~ back again to
Cork Take a coach across to Ban
trv Rav-then walk leisureiy north.
ward through the most dehgnttu,
scenery. along the most beautliul
road in the world, with It's dense
shadows and dancing shafts OF
sunshine, and tree-like fuseias nod-
ding in the breezes. 1t will be
long walk to Killarney, put there
are messy stumps and logs ana
rocks to rest upon all along the
way. ,;ah. ha
snent at Killarney, visiting the
castle and wandering among the
heather-strewn woods. Time be
ing no object, take month 70
traverse the west coast of ireland,
with its great. rocky fjords, as fine
as those of Norway, and its smiling
valleys sometimes almost tropical
glens, keep right on till you reacn
Port Rush and the Giants cause
way at the extreme north OF Ire.
land. You will have seen one OF
the most interesting countries IN