her arrival home, she will say to her husband: "I would like to have a private talk with you."
Wednesday, May 14.—The man who intends to
quit traveling because he meets so many disagreeable
Englishmen, said to me today: "An Englishman is as
crazy to know everything that is going on as a young
Jew traveling-man. And what annoys me is that the
Americans submit tamely to criticism from the English.
Every day you see English criticism of Americans
in books and newspapers, but the Americans never
strike back. It isn't true that Americans attract attention
abroad because of their rudeness; nine-tenths
of the charges made against American travelers are invented
by the English. Ask any American who has
traveled, and you will find he dislikes the English. The
English do not like Americans, and Americans might
as well throw off their reserve, and admit that they do
not like the English.". . . The captain said this
afternoon that the "Princess Irene," the favorite, is
only twelve miles ahead of us, and that we shall probably
pass it tomorrow night. . . . About sunset,
there was great cheering on the steerage deck. Some
one had reported land in sight, but the report proved
untrue. . . . There is a very fat Italian woman
in the first cabin, and she has a very fat daughter.
Her husband is a passenger in the second cabin.
