. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. PANORAMA OF PUERTO MADRYN, North American Aermotor mill, in the Dr. Eichlet met his seiiora and his little seiiora is a strikingly handsome woman. To-gether we walked in the evening on the beach whichwas strewn with pretty shells. I learned that Icould understand the sehoras Spanish very muchbetter than I could the doctors. It is a proverbvery trite and true that if you would learn a Ian- TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 123 guage a woman must teach it to you, but he wouldbe a daring man who would
. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. PANORAMA OF PUERTO MADRYN, North American Aermotor mill, in the Dr. Eichlet met his seiiora and his little seiiora is a strikingly handsome woman. To-gether we walked in the evening on the beach whichwas strewn with pretty shells. I learned that Icould understand the sehoras Spanish very muchbetter than I could the doctors. It is a proverbvery trite and true that if you would learn a Ian- TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 123 guage a woman must teach it to you, but he wouldbe a daring man who would presume to learn muchof it from the senora of a South American. How-ever, the doctor has been very kind. He knows thehabits of the English-speaking people, and how weare proud of our wives and glad to exhibit them toour friends, and to have them appreciated. It isnot so in South America, where one may know a. CHUBUT, ARGENTINA, SOUTH AMERICA. man for years without meeting or hearing of hiswife. I was especially interested in the lad. He isfive years of age, sturdy, quick as lightning, impul-sive, daring and intelligent. It is a great race. Giveit proper education and training. Perhaps wherewe excel is in self-control, which is a thing not muchtaught in South America. The lad and I played 124 IN FOREIGN FIELDS with the waves, running clown behind them and flee-ing in front of them. They were gentle waves to-day. It is wonderful how one grows to need thecompanionship of children when one is long de-prived of them. It has been a happy afternoon withthe modest, demure yet responsive senora and herhusband and their gay, laughing child. My letters have not come; no mail has reachedhere for two weeks, so I have hopes. The consultelegraphs me, Cinco cartes mas por correo hoy,which is easily translated to mean that he has sentme five more letters today. Good! I will read themiu my imagination for a
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