Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-03-18
Another Letter From
Miss Emma Schreiner

Anchor Line, S. S. California, 2-18-25.
Dear Folks:
To-day is Wednesday," but yester-
day was Monday-this was on the
bulletin board Lost, Yesterday,
somewhere in Mid-Pacific, twenty-four
golden hours, each set with sixty dia-
mond minutes, no reward is offered
for they are gone forever"
We have had quite rough weather
for few days and haven't been able
TO be out on deck very much. We had
our Daily Dozen" however, as usual,
though 1t was hard to keep on our feet
and 1t kept everyone laughing and
once this morning we broke ranks and
ran to see a beautiful rainbow. We
see little rainbows all the time as the
waves break and we have many gorg-
eouS sunsets.
We will reach Yokohama early next
Tuesday morning and this morning
one of the directors who is linguist,
"a Mr.. Cohen born in Jerusalem) gave
us a list of words and their pronun-
citation which we might like to use in
Japan. The pronunciation is easy but
the construction is very hard In the
place of a question mark there are
two words you use. Where" is "doko"
but to make it question you must
say: "Doko, desu ka?" How much
is it, is 'Ikura desu ka?" 81" is
much more important than you" Il"
is "watakuski-wa" "You" is "anata :"
1t was all very interesting
Yesterday we had a talk on Japan
csc art and tonight a bridge party.
They try to keep us busy so no one
will feel that the time is long, but it
really goes very fast.
| intended to write up for Mr.. Sher-
man our Boost your state meeting"
to show we were not forgetting Wis
consin, but | always seem to be doing
something else. There were about IA
of us who got together and fixed up
what to say and chose a bright woman
from Waupun to give the speech. 1t
was given in a better way than any
other representative gave theirs as
many were "rung down" before they
had half finished Only two minutes
were allowed for each state so it had
to given with much vim and quickly
in order to finish in that short time
Here is our offering:
Wisconsin, the land of the lakes,
more than 1000 of them.
Wisconsin, the land of the best
marked highways in the union.
Wisconsin, the land of inventors.
The first cream separator.
The first self-binder by G. B. With
ingtOn.
The first reaper by Daniel Glow.
The first submarine by Redkey.
The first vulcanizer by Shales.
Wisconsin, the home of Frances
Willard, pathfinder for Temperance.
Wisconsin, the land of poets and
musicians.
Shattuck pianist-cOmpOser
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet.
Carrie Jacobs Bond, composer.
IONA Gale and Edna Ferber, novel
lists.
Wisconsin, the home of university
that is nationally famous.
Wisconsin the land of industries.
Parker-Duofold Fountain Pen-the
largest pen industry in the world.
First place for cheese-the kind you
eat with your apple pie.
First place for tobacco, that makes
the binder and filler for your cigar.
Represented by our Mr.. Baines.
First place for the manufacture OF
sash and doors Represented by
Represented by our Mr. Baines.)
First place for OshkOSh-BGOSh oV-
erals. Represented by our Mr..
PollOck)
With it's forests of pine and hem
lock. it's mines or iron and copper.
it's soil that will grow any kind OF
crop and its temperature that rang
es from 10 above to SO below
Can you beat it?
WISCONSIN, all Hail!
Then a chorus-On Wisconsin, On
Wisconsin, Grand Old Badger State.
We have with us a Mr.. Pollock and
family of the Oshkosh B'gOsh Oyeralls
who have the most expensive suite of
rooms on the ship. He is said to be
a multi-milliOnaire, but If he IS, his
money has not spoiled him. see
quite a little of friends of Ethel Car
ter's and her mother from Depere and
like them very much.
This afternoon | attended a lecture
on architecture. The man who gave
it is an architect and the Masons have
asked him to give talk Sunday after
noon on Solomon's temple as he is al
so a Bible student and gave the Bible
class talk last Sunday.
There are not many children on the
boat, a little boy of five, one of nine
and a girl a little older than that.
My love to you all and | nope 10
have letters from some OF you when
we reach Yokohama next Tuesday
Lovingly,
EMMA.