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Title: Travel letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937
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Publisher: Topeka, KS : Crane & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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osay it suits me better than any other way I have evertried. I venture to say that nine out of ten guests atevery hotel abuse the coffee. . . . Every morning* at 6 : 30 there is a rap on my door. I look out, and finda Hindu servant with tea. I tell him I do not wanttea, but would appreciate hot water for shaving. Thisthe Hindu cannot understand, so I now take the tea,and shave with it. ... I was on the Anchisesso long that I almost used up a cake of shaving-soap.I wonder I didnt get the scurvy; they say that is thescourge of a long sea voyage. Tuesday, March 4.—This day opened with genuineinauguration weather; the storm of yesterday con-tinued all night, and seemed as fierce as ever at 8 a. m.. The Natal Mercury of this morning devoteda full page to the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, aspresident. It also printed an editorial of a column anda quarter entitled, The Future of America, whichwas funny because of absurd statements. RuralAmerica, the editorial says, knows little of decent
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NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, AND AFRICA. 221 roads, well-organized police, or mail facilities, and con-sists largely of wide-spreading areas that do not con-tain one human being to the square mile. ... Ifnewspapers print such statements about America, is itany wonder that the English people have absurd no-tions of the Americans? The editorial views withalarm the race problem in America; it also fears thatthe American people are today where the Romans werejust before the decline began. . . . The Natal Mer-cury contains sixteen eight-column pages, and is a morecreditable newspaper than will be found in the averageAmerican town of 32,000 population. Durban has66,000, but 34,000 are negroes who do not read orspeak English. Nine pages of the Mercurys issue ofthis morning are devoted to advertising; the peopleof all the British colonies seem to be well trained innewspaper advertising. Although the Mercury printseight columns about the inauguration of Americasnew president (most of it absurd, but

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