4 TWO DIANAS IN ALASKA 



plain. A panorama which can banish sleep, and 

 give a glimpse into a wonder-scene more perfect than 

 a world of dreams. 



I love the friendliness of Americans. Every one 

 on the cars talks to every one else without a suspicion 

 of being taken for a bandit or footpad as is the rule 

 in England. We shared our "section" with a 

 voluble little lady, whose business and hopes and 

 aims were all spread out before us in the first quarter 

 of an hour. Not to be ready to say whither you 

 are bound, and wherefore, is a contemptibly close way 

 of travelling about the States. If you don't want to 

 tell the truth you must tell a fib, but you must tell 

 something, since you will be asked a multitude of 

 questions instanter on making a new acquaintance. 



Our companion presented us with her visiting-card. 

 It read 



Miss Mamie G. Carlson Potts, C.S., 

 Great Falls, 



Miss. 



I thought C.S. must stand for Civil Servant, but it 

 signifies, Miss Mamie told us, Christian Scientist. 

 She was a "healer," and I suppose that it carries 

 a kind of accolade. It seems odd to have the sect 

 you belong to printed on your visiting-card. 



Miss Potts was in a fix. She had so many lovers 

 she did not really know which to select. She told 

 us all about them, and we did our best to help her 

 to choose. Cecily was all for a man " in the dry- 



