Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . —Over the Taurus Mountains — An American Spring Wagon in AsiaMinor — A Dismal Prospect — Filth and Dirt Everywhere — SickeningSights in Village Streets — Hobsons Choice — In a Native House —Putting an Armenian Baby to Bed — A Cheerful Infant — A Peep intoParadise — Dirty Turks — Eating out of the Same Dish with Them —A Plague of Fleas — Some Pointed Questions. T is hardly possible for women inAmerica, accustomed to journey-ing in express trains and luxuri-ous drawing-room cars, to under-stand jus
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . —Over the Taurus Mountains — An American Spring Wagon in AsiaMinor — A Dismal Prospect — Filth and Dirt Everywhere — SickeningSights in Village Streets — Hobsons Choice — In a Native House —Putting an Armenian Baby to Bed — A Cheerful Infant — A Peep intoParadise — Dirty Turks — Eating out of the Same Dish with Them —A Plague of Fleas — Some Pointed Questions. T is hardly possible for women inAmerica, accustomed to journey-ing in express trains and luxuri-ous drawing-room cars, to under-stand just what a journey of sev-eral hundred miles across Turkeyin a wagon was to the one lone,lorn woman who accomplishedit, and whose companions wereseven men! How she counted upthe comforts and blessings of lifein the homeland, and how oftenshe resolved, that if she ever lived to see her native landagain she would never complain of any hardships or tribula-tions which come to an ordinary housekeeper in America!How many lessons she learned of thankfulness for small (625). 626 jolly experiences. mercies! How soon she learned, too, that it was possible tolive without a good many things that most people countamong the necessities of life. The whole trip across Turkey from the landing at Mersinto our departure from Constantinople, was what Mark Tap-ley would have called jolly. Im always a thinking,said that cheerful philosopher, that with my good healthand spirits it would be more creditable in me to be jollywhere theres things a going on to make one dismal. It ma}rbe a mistake of mine, you see, but nothing short of tryinghow it acts, will set it right. I dont believe there ever wasa man as could come out so strong under circumstances thatwould make other men miserable as I could, if I could onlyget a chance. Some of our experiences on the Mediterranean Sea werevery like Mark Tapleys description of life at sea. The sea, he continues, is as nonsensical a thing
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