The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 417
onstantlytravelled, that an energetic, enterpris-ing traveller can see all that is to beseen without aid ; but in Norway andSweden, Russia, Holland, and Turkey, English is so generally spoken that anAmerican woman does not find herselfat a disadvantage. It is the gentleman who sits at thereceipt of… … An English Guard. any protective measures, is a mosttroublesome port to enter. Brandy,cologne, silver plate, tobacco, and theTauchnitz novels are not permitted toenter the tight little island, and it isgenerally some well-behaved, eminent-ly conventional matron who is mostsharply questioned as to…
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