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 her arrival home, she will say to her husband: "I would like to have a private talk with you."

—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.