Show NATIVE LAND I Is I not Infrequent to hear people who have been abroad remark that All Americans ought to visit Europe In order to boiler appreciate their own country In the same vein Is C letter u racy one too in the New York Sun wrItten from Cairo g Yft The correspondent corre-spondent asserts that the feeling Is Intensified In-tensified when an American Breaches Africa He says Europe is Dlllnc up wlih Thankful Jonnthiin > l Jonathan for short You cant no fur without hearing sonic of I them chaiulnp a hullelnjuh thorns of RrutUud lo tho discriminating l Prnvl I donco that miulo them t Americans Tho chorus nnirinuis thn vich the churches mounts from the dawdling train and Is whooped up along the bfjrRarlnfcsied slreets and roads For Americans tho tie that binds is 1 a trip to forlgn lands Over here Chicago and St Louis fall on each Chlcfo and weep for Joy New York and Chicago hal oach other as If they wore loiiRlost brothers and every biased ono of them no matter how roundly or sqnuroly he has abused lls country when in It lurns Thankful Jonathan when ho pets out of It and praises God rr the 1 manifold ble sliiKs of his ankee lot For thc last six weeks the American invasion I of Kprypi has been at Us height I nnd at one lime when u single tourldt agency turned loose 100 personallycon ducted Jonathans on to the banks of the Nil thi air was thick with Yankee thunkfulne The poor Nile which baa been brought up on the belief that I H la 1 responsible for Egypt and tin tlK 1 > plUms has been so abnshel that it has shrunk lo iho lowest level It hun reached In loO Years It seems tp be a case oi I her the Nile or the Jonathans dryliiK up The he being thankful Yankee Pharisee beRlns blln thnnkfl even before he gets on dry land Steamships do not land you in Egypt They slop U a shrewd < llslanee fioni tho shore and turn their passenperfi over lo the tender mercies of tn howling horde of bareleKKod pirates I aral l In I several I strata of lone nightshirts the upper one bMnj Kpnemlly blue Bv the I time the 1 pas 5en rer hal escaped from this crew hn Ia l prepared In think tenderly of an American Amer-ican brakemun and to put a clause In lila wil for the bnnetil ut sleepingcar por The very lone letter is all In the same strain and it Is good to read good first because It comforts Americans who have to stay at home that those who can fo abroad cannot buy surcease from a 1 trouble and to give the stay athomes the chance when a returned voyager begins to dilate upon the unalloyed un-alloyed pleasure which he enjoyed on 1s 10NJ Journey a Collect I what a liar he Is But IJdJ l l U8 i Americans as a rule do not appreciate native land They hav6 cbnceptlOn of foreign miseries or the conditions which millions lions of people have to work out n llvo lihood In and how shrunken their souls become In the wretched struggle for I e I is true that Intelligent foreigners understand the facls better than average aver-age Americans and appreciate this country better than do mal Amcri cans Perhaps this Is best for were It not so there would be less patience manifested mani-fested toward the few who come here from abroad come from the slums and then inveigh against Uiis free country I is a pity that the great mass of nativeborn Americans cannot beforo they are of age spend 0 year abroad I would Ilx Impressions upon them which would mako them better men and omen o-men all their lives They would think of the land of plenty they left behind of the free Insltutlons vhch Imposed no unreasonable restraint upon them which opens all Its mighty opportune lies to Its children and which Veal Ing the very highest stations on the hills of fame beckons all her children to seek to attain them There Is no other Hiich land there are nowhere elso such opportunities in no other spot Is it fixed so that the only boundaries which prevent any man from achieving anythlrrg which he may hope to achieve re his own lack of courage ability and perseverance In our colleges and universities crd chiilrs of mathematics of ftheolb y of ppliUcal science etc WhiaL are especially needed are chairs iol patriotism and for students In that class there could be no better preliminary prelimi-nary year than one spent In foreign travel that in beginning the regular course students might enter upon It with thankful and grateful hearts that their homes are In a land favored as no other land has been since the beginning of time |