The Winslow mail., 1923-06-08
MRS. CARNAN TELLS
ABOUT HER TRIP
AROUND THE WORLD

Mrs. Maude Garman, sister Of Mrs.
Clara Foster, who visited her sister
a few years ago and will be remem-
bered by many residents of Winslow,
has just returned from a trip around
the world, and in letter to her sis
ter written from Cairo, Egypt, she
tells many very interesting things
concerning the trip and what she
has seen. Doubtless these things will
be interesting to those especially
who met Mrs. Garman and to others
also. The trip lasted five months,
beginning at New York on January
22nd, and ending at Quebeck May 23
From New York, the steamship
Empress of France" proceeded on
the cruise by way of Havana, Colon,
Panama, San Francisco, Honolulu,
Hilo, Japan, China, Manila, Java,
Batavia, Many points in India, Cal
cutta, and Bombay, where they re-
mained for five days. Leaving there
on April 25th, they proceeded to
Cairo where they remained four
days From Cairo they sailed to
Naples, thence to South Hampton,
and then across the Atlantic to Que
beck. She says she has enjoyed the
cruise but will be glad to get home.
Most of the way was smooth sailing
except day or two between Homo
lulu and Japan.
There were eight hundred passen-
gers and a crew of six hundred
making as she says a real country
town on board. And like most coun-
try towns she says considerable gos-
sip went the rounds. AS an excuse
for not writing oftener she said that
OF
there was such a mad rush that
there was no opportunity scarcely
to secure cards let alone writing
them.
AS to the equipment of the ship
she saws there were two swimming
pools. several trained nurses, a doc
tor, school for children, small hos
pital. classes in French, lectures on
countries to be visited and talks on
those already visited, dances, church
services on Sundays conducted by
the different denominations.
The passengers bought all sorts OF
things as they travelled along from
country to country, such as parrots,
birds of all kinds, monkeys, dogs,
etc., until they had a regular men
agerie on board The day after she.
wrote they were to have white
elephant sale of the things that
people bought and didn't want to
keep, and which they bought some
one else might want to buy. The
sale furnished a great deal of amuse-
ment as we'll as helping passengers
get rid of baggage" they didn't
want.
They visited Ceylon and all decid-
ed that Ceylon and Honolulu were
the garden spots of the world. In
Cevlon they visited many tea plan
tations and were entertained at
tea" on enc of the plantations from
the tea grown on that particular
plantation and she said it was the
best tea she had ever tasted, The
owner of this plantation-a Mr.. Par
ker-was a friend of the table COM
panions of Mrs. Garman, and had
beautiful home in the mountains OF
Ceylon. The friends of Mr.. Parker
were from Manchester. England and
had come across to New York just
to take the trip on that particular
ship. She tells of seeing-in India
the places where they cremate their
dead, out in the open in what they
call the "ghat" She also saw some
of the dead burning on these fun
eral pyreS and witnessed the carry
ing in of a corpse preceded by the
chanting priests. In Bombay, Sne
says they take their dead up to what
they call "the Tower of Silence" ana
put them in big pit where the vul-
lures come and pick the flesh from
their bones, and then the bones are
left there to dry for several days,
when they put quick lime over them
to sink into the earth.
She tells of burial at sea when
one of their table stewards, who fell
from a swimming pool and received
injuries from which he died, was
buried in the sea. The passengers
made up a purse for the sailors
mother amounting to twelve hundred
and thirty dollars.
She says it was a wonderful crui-
Sc but she was glad to get back home
on the dry land.