Travel letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa . ouche baths. The New-Zealandersare fond of bathing, and there is never a lack of bath-rooms in their hotels. ... I have before referredto the fact that women out here wear afternoon andevening dresses in the morning; I believe I would havenoticed the custom had not Adelaide called my atten-tion to it. V/hen the ship landed this morning, a prettywoman we admired, dressed in white satin and whitekid slippers for the occasion. . On our wayup-town, we passed a store labeled the Clobbery. Thestock seemed to consist of gents furnishing
Travel letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa . ouche baths. The New-Zealandersare fond of bathing, and there is never a lack of bath-rooms in their hotels. ... I have before referredto the fact that women out here wear afternoon andevening dresses in the morning; I believe I would havenoticed the custom had not Adelaide called my atten-tion to it. V/hen the ship landed this morning, a prettywoman we admired, dressed in white satin and whitekid slippers for the occasion. . On our wayup-town, we passed a store labeled the Clobbery. Thestock seemed to consist of gents furnishing an English friend can tell you where the wordClobbery comes from; I never heard of it . After dinner, we walked about the streets ofAuckland. Adelaide wore what is known at home asa Peter Thompson suit, and it attracted so muchattention that I asked her to return to the hotel andchange it. There were great crowds on the streets,and they seemed to think Adelaide was a member of alady brass band of which I was director. She took off. NEW ZEALAND, AUSTEALIA, AND AFRICA. 45 the Peter Thompson, and put on a gray suit madeby a man tailor in Kansas City, but she still lookedfunny to the people, for they continued to stare at wore a Panama hat for which I paid $12 (markeddown from $20), and I thought she looked pretty well,but she was a sight to many of the people of . We heard a brass band, and walked that turned out to be a Salvation Army band of thirtymen. The players wore red coats, and played likeprofessionals. The men and women in the processionwere much more decent-looking than members of theSalvation Army at home. There were no guitars, andno tambourines; the music was furnished by an ex-cellent band of thirty men. It was a very respectableoutfit in every way, and finally disappeared into a the-atre. In Auckland, Sunday theatricals are prohibited,and religious services are held in every theatre twiceon Sunday. In the early evening, while
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