A GOOD GIRL'S DIARY. A Marchioness as Globe-trotter.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 392, 10 August 1889, Page 3

A GOOD GIRL'S DIARY. A Marchioness as Globe-trotter.

The Marchioness of Stafford spent her 20fch year in a tour round the world, and, like there globe - trotters, ahe kept a diary, which is now published by Messrs Blackwood, of Edinburgh. The Marfchioness is a cheerful traveller, with high spirits, and a graphic, gambolling &bylo, which would ab once ensure her a berth as a lady-reporter.

A Creepy' Bed at an Embassy. This i& a big gloomy Embassy, very comfortless, bul the Ministers are improving it greatly. The bed in my room once belonged to the Empress Josephine. Notwithstanding its regality, mosquitoes and ppiders abound, and thore is a great bulletmark in the pier-glass — made, I believe, during the Franco-German war. Altogether it is rather creepy.

VKNICK ' DoNH ' IX A MORNINtt. This morning we ' did ' all the sights of Venice. St. Mark's is most interesting and beautiful. Tho glass mosaics tire 1 in wonderful preservation, so are also two alabaster pillars behind the altar, which were brought from King Solomon 1 * Temple. What a great pity it is that the inlaid floor is sinking in different places, and will require most careful restoration ! The Dole's Palace is also very grand. [ could not help comparing the gilding on the ceiling in tho Senate Hall with that, ot the Paris Opera Ifouse, much to the lattei's disadvantage. There is a larpe fine picture of our Saviour ! on the doss in one of the halls. She Slept Ai>teu a ' (.-Jkanp Eh-okt. ' It is November 25. and this is Melbourne. — On Igo with my journal. (Sometimes I feel I must give it up, but I make a grand ettovt to continue We spent the day at Macedon yesterday —a lovely spot about twenty miles from Melbourne, where the Governor is building a house up on the lulls as a summer residence. Sad to relate, I went to sleop in a chair after luncheon, and did not see half its beauties ; but it was bo difficult to help it, with the thermometer at 96deg. in fche shade '

'Buddha's Tooth* Didn't Dkwv. The great Buddhist temp le ab Kandy is a < very fine and ancient edifice, and the Sinpihalese swear that the only anfchentic j 'Buddha's tootii' is kept within its precincts. We were too lazy to venture out in the • evening; to graze upon this relic, though the ceremony, of opening the sacred casket is performed with groat pomp by the priests, to the accompaniment of tomtoms, at a certain hour every day.

'Oivf, Ah: Baruatutv.' The greatest crowd (of Japanese ladies) had gathered round a case of European dresses, and seemed intensely interested in the hideous things. When I looked at the graceful clinging; robes on the little ladies, so suited to their size and faces, and then on what they will all be wearing in a few years, 1 did feel sorry both for them and for all of an artistic turn of mind ; perhaps, but I pomewhat doubt it, it is the unavoidable consequence of pi ogres&he civilisation. If po, t rnusb defiantly cry, Barbaiity for ever ! — but J do not believe that it. i&. essential to wood manners, and, above all to the work of Christianity, that a nation should adopt a dre«s which even we, excepting those wise persons who US6 their own judgment and taste's and defy opinion must decry an hideous, though fashion has blindly educated us ud to it.

Despair axd Delmoxico's Speikinjj of a batch of emigrants in New York :: — * A mother 'and five healthy children, from Warwickshire, were anxious to get to Ohio without a penny in their pockets :' another, with a baby i:i her arms, was searching for a runaway husband ; and a family of Russians, forsaking all for Christ'.HMake, had come out to this unknown land because they would not abjure the T'rotesbant faith in their Catholic village! 'Tt \vab \a touching sight. T wonder how many of us, who have all this earth can give, realising the heartbreaking misery and inequalities of fortune of half the "world, would stop one second in the mad career ot pleasure, self, and sin, te help these children of the same Father, to lighten one load or dry one tear ' How little it would cost ! TTpw sweet the reward ! We came quL again amid the greon tree*- in the bright sunshine, perhaps graver than we went in!' In the next paragraph: — 'At the hotel we found a note from the Hewitts, and dined with them at Delmonico's, repairing afterwards co the Eden Musoo, a sort of JSldme. Tussaud's, with a chamber ofhorrois of the most, gruesome type. A very good Hungarian band played enchnnlingly. 1

Tijk elusion (lold. Among the many object of interest we visited before leaving Chicago, at the Board of Trade or Stock Exchange the most extrbordinary and almost painful sight fell to our lot. ' A break in the .grain market,' so we , were told ; but could not account for the seething masd of faces below us, the hoarse yells, the indescribable din. with excited countenances and demoniacal expressions,' each man trying to outsell or outfouy the other — more likeraving lunatics than sane people V It was a pitable exhibition, and .sad to know that theee God's creafcurep, with immortal souls, were bartering nil for the cursed gold that to the 'worldling makes or- mars the man. One thought of that Last Day that will como as a thief in the night Hashed across my mind one thought of the account we must render up to the Great Judge. Who would not cry, ' Good Lord, have mercy on us !' ■Rough ox the American Newsiwpkk. I think new-comers are all immensely amused at "the American newspapers, which \ are moflt sensationally got up ; huge head ings about the merest trifles fill half the page ; and yesterday they actually occupied two columns with a most ridiculous and fictitious article about the Gaelic passengers in quarrantinc. I suppose they are terribly at a, loss for sensible information.