352 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



GLEANINGS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES 



By MISS SARA PHILLIPS THOMAS, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen. To-night I wish I had been 

 asked to speak on "What is the Matter with the Men of Pennsylvania," 

 because this thought has been going through my mind very much for 

 the last few. days and weeks, and when I realize that we have 000,000 

 men members of the great churches in this State is it any wonder 

 that we are really trying to do something for the childhood of our 

 State to stimulate a better manhood and womanhood. I ask why you 

 men of Pennsylvania put such a low valuation ou the expression of 

 your citizenship ; why you do not send men to Harrisburg, when you 

 have it in your power to control the balance of power in the Senate 

 and House of Representatives, men that are men, that are stalwart 

 men, that will not only make us good laws but stand for the upbuild- 

 ing of the State and the protection of the home ; and I appeal to you 

 to use your votes in this way, to use your influence over the other 

 Christian men of this State. 



And now tonight we are to realize that there are many ways in 

 which we get our education even after we leave the scholastic halls of 

 learning, and 1 think j'ou will agree with me that as long the earth 

 exists that we must go on in seeking knowledge and enlarging our 

 sphere, and one of the jjleasantest ways by which we can do this is 

 by means of travel and if we are fortunate enough to get into the 

 old countries beyond the seas we find a splendid opportunity^ to study 

 life, art and history, as well as to enjoy the natural scenery everj'- 

 where around us ; and I am going to ask you, in the limited time I 

 have to-night, to take a rambling trip with me and I will start with 

 you in that magnificent harbor of Queenstown, and I ask you to pic- 

 ture that old town on the height above the harbor with a perpendicu- 

 lar wall of about SO feet rising from the water's edge and high 

 above that you find terrace after terrace planted with beautiful 

 shrubbery and flowers. We landed in this town about 2.30 o'clock in 

 the morning and at 4.00 o'clock the day had dawned and so it oc- 

 curred to me that we might profitably use our time by taking a jaunt- 

 ing car ride and for some of you who are not familiar with a jaunting 

 car I will describe it. It is a vehicle that carries properly four people 

 and the driver, but the great advantage is that you can pile in any 

 number and use but one horse to it. It has seats that run lengthwise 

 over the wheels and the reply that the driver made to me when I asked 

 him about the ride, he said: ''Oh, yes, miss; it is a fine thing to do. It 

 will shake your breakfast down and shake your liver up." And so it 

 will if the jaunting car is not properly balanced because it is one of 

 the roughest vehicles if you do not have your load properly balanced. 

 We rode around the streets of Queenstown and felt transported into 

 fairy land as we looked upon the liburnum, which as many of you 

 know belongs to the locust family, with long festoons of yellow plume 

 and as we looked up into it was one mass of golden beauty ; and then 



