The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-02

Mix and Charlie Chaplin as the favor
ties. What I consider the best seats
are located in the pit and are there
the cheapest. While 1 was sitting in
one of these theaters a lady sitting
beside me and smoking a cigaret
picked two pounds sterling from my
pockets.
1--WE were treated with the utmost
courtesy in England and in Germany
where courtesy seems to be a part of
their propaganda. There were few
Americans in England in June and
we were the objects of much curiosity
on account of our peculiar actions.
However my daughter learned more
rapidly than I and I was in her hands
and under her guidance most of the
time. The Epglishman with whom
one comes in daily contact is even
more polite than the Frenchman and
has evolved some peculiar twists of
the language. Thank you is used
with a rising infection and when one
gets in a hurry he simply abbreviates
it to Que If you get in a mans way
he keeps saying Thank you until you
says Sorry If he fails to under
stand, it's Pardon 1 think everyone
we met in England, from the con-
ductor who took up our fares to the
waiter who took our orders, thanked
us, with the exception of the lady who
IOOh the Two pOuuuS LEOIn MY pOChSb,
and I have no doubt but what if she
knew my address she would write and
thank me yet.
Longed to Don Kilties.
1--WE made the usual trips to the
ago, my ancestors are reported to have
made their living Communicating
sheep from other Highlanders. I
seemed to feel the call of the past
and yearned to get into kits and steal
sheep. Only in the old days they
didn't call it stealing.
1--WE were warned by many that 1t
would be unsafe to go to Ireland, but
at Ayres, Scotland, we found the no.
tells too crowded and went down to
Stranaer, across from the Irish coast
and found others going over SO we
went across to Larne, in Ireland, and
thence twenty-five miles by train to
Maghera, which is two miles from
ToberInore. Both of these are bar
ricaded towns, guarded by Ulster SOL
diers. While we were there two of
the guards were fired upon from am
bush. The Irish landscape is the
most peaceful looking on earth and
the people are the only disturbing
element. The differences appear to
be wholly of a religious character.
Shooting from ambush is common
practice. Americans are welcomed
in the way of a stray bullet.
THE people here were all very
kind, courteous and hospitable. Sun
day morning, as is my custom, went
to church that corresponds to our
Episcopal church.. The rector, an
Irishman of 70, rushed up and greeted
me warmly, obtained my name and
residence and at the close of his SER
mon announced that I was there and
commended me to the hospitality of
the congregation. As a result, we
were entertained that afternoon at tea
facturer, at his beautiful country
home. In the afternoon the rector
called for us in his Ford and we at
tended services at two other churches.
We visited the rectory in the evening
and it is the most beautiful spot 1
and surrounded by stately trees from
five to ten centuries old.
Meets Former Topekan.
while in Paris had the good for
tune to meet one of England's prom
a boy, was one of my best friends in
Topeka He and his brother were en-
ployed here by Crane & Company.
They were the sons of an Irishman.
who was minister Of the Church of
England and who later became a mis-
sionary to Newfoundland. When he
was boy of seventeen William was
sent here by his father as a remit
lance man to learn farming There
was a colony near Wellington But
william and his brother found that
farming was SO much different from
polo, tennis and cricket that they gave
it up. They made SIS week at Cranes
and received So a week from home.
$50 finally they left here. William
afterward became an Associated Press
correspondent and was with Admiral
Simpsons ship at Santiago. Later he
became identified with the London
Chronicle. In America he was SOL
der of fortune. serving three years in
our army as a private. He walked the