A Jayhawker in Europe

The next “lion” on board is Gov. Fook, returning from the Dutch West Indies, where he has been governing the islands and Dutch Guiana. The governor is a well-informed gentleman,...

I talked this matter over with an intelligent Irishman, and he agreed with me that if the drinking of liquor could be abolished it would do away with nine-tenths of the poverty....

I am not knocking on the English. This condition which seems so distressing to me is a product of their conditions and is not the deliberate purpose of the people. I think it co...

Both Alkmaar and Haarlem are interesting because they are intensely Dutch. Their principal occupations, cheesemaking and flower-raising, have been their principal occupations fo...

The Queen of Holland is a woman. This is not a startling statement, for so far as I know a man has never been a queen in any country. But there is no king. Queen Wilhelmina’s hu...

Although the students at the University of Paris do not have the fun in athletics and society that the students do in the University of Kansas, they have a good time in the Fren...

The French are delightfully “natural” about many things. It is quite the proper thing for a man and woman to hug and kiss each other in public. At first this startled me and I f...

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The Dutch are proverbially honest. Of course I have been over-charged some, but I have never been anywhere on either side of the Atlantic where the rule was not observed, “he wa...

One great difference between Germans and Americans is the regard in which they hold the law. Unfortunately, our new civilization has brought about a general feeling that the law...

For some unexplainable reason the ship homeward-bound is always slow. When one leaves his own country on a journey to other lands he is in no hurry. The new pictures that consta...