OVER AMERICA BY ROAD
Hospitality of People
Kew York, as has often been said, is not America, and any visitor who really wants to understand the IJnited States should leave Ihe hig cities and taka a motor trip from coast to coast The Dowager MaTchioness of Keadlrtg took such a trip last summer, and slie has told "that when she set off* on the farnous Oregon Trail she was conje pletely ohlivious to the stupendous faeauty that would be met on the 'way. As she looks back on it now, tke drivo stands Out to her for a grandeur of scenery unrivalled by anything she had ever seenj except the Himilayas in India. Every where the people were cl'armiflg, hospitable, jind i'nterested in the visitors' experiences, and she was particularly struck hy the way in which most drivers respected the laws of tho road. (A notico in oue town rcad: 'Drive slow and see our town. Drive fast and see our jail'.) . * " Th« politeness of the attendants at petrol iilling sta^ions.was also notice- * car arrivcs at the pump to
fill up, a beaming lace ioolcs in at the window, and a cheerful ' voiee says:
' Hullo, folks,- kow ape you?' Clean rest-rooms await the dusty- traveller, a cheery wOrd is always ready, and free maps are provided for the next two or throe hundred miles of road. Horeover, a tip is regarded as an insult, and thi? is not the result of good salesmansliip so much as of real friendliness. 'Wliat we. brought back from our drive,' said the Dowager Marehioness, 'is a memory of peaceful countrysides, of glimpses of happy home lives, of logs staclced at the sides of houses in readiness for winter, of work industriously and courageously undertaken and very , thoroughly done, of wooden houses with porches on which roeking-ehairs give tlred limhs a comfy restj but dcopest of. all is'our realisation. of admiration and affection for tho people we met 'for their kindncss and their ' quickness for their over-sntiling friendliness, anc ifor the virility of their youth, th
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 11
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