Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
PAGE. I. MY TEA TO MEHEMET ALI AND FAREEDIE 9 II. A JAPANESE DINNER 21 III. A ROMAN CHRISTMAS 31 IV. SYLVESTER-ABEND 42 V. A COPTIC WEDDING 51 VI. IN THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE 57 VII. AN ARAB DINNER-PARTY 66 VIII. A BIRTHDAY PARTY IN THE WEST INDIES 79 IX. A SIAMESE HAIR-CUTTING 91...
PAGE. I. MY TEA TO MEHEMET ALI AND FAREEDIE 9 II. A JAPANESE DINNER 21 III. A ROMAN CHRISTMAS 31 IV. SYLVESTER-ABEND 42 V. A COPTIC WEDDING 51 VI. IN THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE 57 VII...
2. Part 2In the morning, about half-past ten, I went to a church on the Capitol Hill, called Church of the Altar of Heaven. This hill is high and there are one hundred and twenty-four st...
3. Part 3You may have followed as we did some of the merry little streams to find out where they would lead you, or better than all you may have joined in the play of some of the French...
4. Part 4As to servants, they were all colored and we had to have a great many, for each would only take charge of one branch of service, and usually must have a deputy or assistant to h...
5. Part 5But the change was coming. The old women of Cornwall lamented loudly when their sickles were taken away, and the corn was "round-hewed" by the men with a kind of rounded saw.
6. Part 6One cannot read it without feeling the brotherhood of a soul that has suffered, and has learned through suffering that there is but one great thing for men to do in this world,...