Evening star., 1924-04-20
Around the World:With Togo
Wallace Irwin Japanese Schoolboy Letters

IL never get lar from nome.
EAREST Sir: II you wish find
me on this Ship please call
room 139. 3rd floor, where
are now bedriding. enjoying
hold it on my stummick very long
time. In the bank right becrost from
me lays Cousin Nogi. who are going
as my gloom mate on this Surround
the World Cruise. Every time Hon.
Ship bumps against a pile of water
he grone.
"Nogi, why you roll around so
muchly?" i ask to know.
/ think l must be that Ships Log
you told about he grubble while
rolling.
Since we left N. Y. days Of yore,
intending to do this famus Globe
Circle. you have did nothing but
Jellyache all time" dib. What did
you come for, if anythingg'
For this reason" he reproof II
thought maybe if I stayed away from
Prohibition for four (4) months /
might get a chance to sober up"
ocean," / manipulate.
1T are not so long as it are high"
he creep. This ship have been climb
Ing every since we past the Statute
or Liberty. Maybe when it get to the
top / shall feel moro cheery-O."
At this junction income our stew
ard. a nice Irishman name Of Otto,
who fetch an enlarged bottle Ger
man shampain. This beveridge are
In time of shipwreck persons will pay
large prices to save life. He pore
several bubbles for me & equally for
Nogi.
Hook" holla, razing glass.
'Hic" say Nogi.
We squelch our throats in that cold
boil-juice and feel improved.
"otto," l require. 'how big around
arc the World?"
"Since der World VAR" he accent,
cit are somevat shmaller at it vas
Chermany has been removed
Yet cannot you estimate how fat
this Planet are around the waist" 1
udge.
"oh. maybe IS thousand miles" he,
pronounce.
'Cheer uply. Nogi:'' l holla- 1--WE
have already went 721 of those miles.
This leave Us only 27,:79 more to go.
Think that.''
''Danks, meinherr,' dictate Otto
while backing up with two (2) bottles
shampain which are no good since we
drank 1t. This leave me G. Nogi alone
some to discourse about this enlarged
boat-rise on which we are now steam
ing so rapidly.
X X 4
SGNfY sweethearted Cousin 1 COM
A'A mence educationally, why
should We not practice X Science &
forget our mizery in thinking of
n,izery of others?"
"Even that cannot make me happy
nov he contempt.
"Ah, yes" ] toll, think what I
heard last night up in the Setting
Saloon. There was a lecture, by
golly, with brite-colored lantern
snides."
who give that Lecture, if any
body?" he ask it.
Either Mr.. Raymond or Mr. Whit
comb. Not sure because l were not
introduced. But he had sweet voice
like a nightingale while telling us
about Strange Lands & Wonderful
Scenarios. Next Sunday am. where
YOU think we shall be?"
II have given up SO much" none
Nogi. that 1 cannot answer any
more puzzles"
I'VE shall stop at MADEIRA, an
Island where the Portuguese people
do nothing but make wine"
Cannot we bribe the Captain to
set there faster?" narrate Nogi feb
bly,.
And where do we so from there?'
] increase. ITO the Rock of Gibral-
tar where the life insurance come
from We shall stop there only long
enough to take out a policy, then
onwards to Naples. Naples.! Think
of seeing that famous headquarters
of ice cream, bootblacking 6: VOL
canoes
I'VE got some pretty swelled VOL
canoes in Japan" gollup Eogi for pa
triotism.
we shall come to Japan in dew
time" I yall pleasurely. But firstly
we shall slide over soft Muditer-
r-anean pillows to study geography
in Algeria, famous for Mohommedans,
fleas & cigarettes. Then whether
away from there. you think?" Il
what xas) '.Nextly we are in Egypt.
Watching Arabs, scarabs, Faros &
other ruins"
'Here are one ruin what will be
spofled before he gets there" collapse
Nogt-
Brace uply." I snaEger. Think.
please of going to India to see all
those wild Indians e. cowboys under
the shadow of Tai McHall. Or to see
tho Fakers doing fakes Or watch
those Notch Girls And from there we
GO to China and study the heather
habits of those quaint people who for
100000 yrs has remained SO inferior to
tho Japanese. as any Japanese school
boy can tell you. From there, Q
banssi! Japan
But from the music Of Nogi's nose
7 couyd tell he was asleeping. He are
a very BON traveller.
\
Mr. EDITOR, before getting on
1VA shipbored considerable kind
friends tell me something to take to
ks.n me from dying far from home.
One sweet-hearted lady say, Togo,
be sure wear a veil in Egypt because
sha plscs are billed with kind OF dies
that killed King Tut" ] do 50. Yet