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Show WO!.! FN AS TRAVELERS. 1 TWO GIRLS WHO WENT ALONE FROM PARIS TO SAN FRANCISCO. i Tlier Made the Ti In Jul Twelve and One-Hair Da) s Titty Were Kick While rosshij,- thu Water, hut They Kecrived the llot of Attention from I'veiybrtrf). American girls have that pluck which makes them admired by all the woriei. . The following is a story of two young women who made a living trip from Pnria to !".:n Francisco. The sisters were t school in Paris, and expected soon to he met by relatives. One forenoon they received a cable dispatch telling them to como home as soon an possible. The oldest girl is about twenty years old. She immediately sent for time tables. While she was examining these her sister was packing live trunks. Miss V discovered that they could get a steamer from Southampton which w:is to sail tho next day. She posted to her bunker's, and hurrying back joined her sister in packing. At half past 8 that night they wero being whirled out of Paris. Neither of the girls slept that night. When they arrived in London at 0 o'clock in tho morning Miss F was forced to do some shopping, for however rapidly women travel they make time to do a little buying, and in tins case they had started so suddenly that this wus absolutely necessary. i The, American sisters caught the 12:110 o'clock train for Southampton, not having hav-ing had time to eat luncheon. Four hours later they wero on their steamer, tired and hungry and sleepy, but tri- ; umphlnt. j ON THE OCEAN. I Every one on 1 lie vessel was most kind to the young women and lauded their pluck to the skies. The voyage would for tlus reason have been made pleasant for them, bnt their hurry and lack of deep, together with their nerve tension, ; made them easy prey for man's mortal enemy, seasickness. From tho time the big steamer left England until she swept up New York harbor the weather was . uncompromisingly rough. Not one day was fair. When the ycung women reached the steamer they wero utterly exhausted, and at once went to bed. j This set the stewardess to grumbling. She wanted the girls to npjiear at the I diuner tablo on the first day at least, i "Oh, don't urge us to go to dinner 1 again," cried Miss F wearily, and then she told tl.o woman the experience through which they had just passed. "You poor littlo dears," said the woman, at once becoming gentle, and - for tho rest of the voyage she neglected every one else to look after "th brave little American ladies." Men and women joined in littlo courtesies court-esies and attentions to tho two gills. One old crusty Englishman seemed to take offense if any oue monopolized their attention. He becametheir loyal guardian guard-ian and walked around like a great protecting pro-tecting mastiff. It was he who stood on the deck with them on the day that tho girls turned their eager eyes toward tho Statue of Liberty. The new friends of "the brave littlo American ladies" , advised ad-vised tlieiii to stay in New York for 'one day to geta little rest. They would not listen to ntjch pleasant urgings. The ! stewardess actually wept over their determination de-termination to hurry on to San Francisco. NO REST FOB THEM. "Only get one night's sleep," she plended, but the girls had been told to come home as soon as possible, and they were (leaf to all entreaties. The steamer was at her pier at 4:.'i0 p. m., and a train left Jersey City at OiilOp. m. In that two hrairs the girls left tho uteamer, had their trunks examined ex-amined by tho custom house officials and wero driven to t lie railroad station. Their adoring old Englishman, who did not look as if he had moved rapidly in forty years, fretted and bustled around tho trunks when they were being opened, lie was in mortal terror lest tho girls would miss the train after all. He stamiied, got red iu the face, puffed violently and finally recovered the baggage bag-gage with a cry of exultation. The train which started westward that evening even-ing carried with two white faced young women the good wishes of a shipload of passengers. "No woman but an American would undertake such a thing," said the Englishman, Eng-lishman, looking at two bits of of white lace where two handkerchiefs fluttered at the cur window as the train rolled out of the station, "and," he added, "no woman but an American could succeed in such an undertaking." For the benefit of those who are interested inter-ested to know how tho trip ended, and to satisfy those whu like to follow transatlantic trans-atlantic records, it may bo said that the young women reached home in safety. To go from London to their home in San rrancinco took them just twelve and one-half days. -New York Tribune. |