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Penelope's Postscripts




by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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Contents:

Penelope in Switzerland
Penelope in Venice
Penelope's Prints of Wales
Penelope in Devon
Penelope at Home

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PENELOPE IN SWITZERLAND

A DAY IN PESTALOZZI-TOWN

Salemina and I were in Geneva. If you had ever
travelled through Europe with a charming spinster who
never sat down at a Continental table d'hote without being
asked by an American vis-a-vis whether she were one of
the P.'s of Salem, Massachusetts, you would understand
why I call my friend Salemina. She doesn't mind
knows that I am simply jealous because I came from a
vulgarly large tribe that never had any coat-of-arms, and
whose ancestors always sealed their letters with their
thumb nails.

Whenever Francesca and I call her "Salemina," she knows,
and we know that she knows, that we are seeing a group
of noble ancestors in a sort of halo over her serene and
dignified head, so she remains unruffled under her petit

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nom, inasmuch as the casual prehends nothing
of its spurious origin and thinks it was given her by her
sponsors in baptism.

Francesca, Salemina, and I have very different
backgrounds. The first-named is an extremely pretty
person of large e who is travelling with us simply
because her relatives think that she will "see Europe"
mre advantageously under our chaperonage than if she
were panied by persons of her own age or "set."

Salemina is a philanthropist and educator of the first rank,
and is collecting all sorts of valuable material to put at the
service of her own country when she returns to it, which
will not be a moment before her letter of credit is
exhausted.

I, too, am quasi-educational, for I had a few years of
experience in mothering and teaching little waifs and
strays of the streets before I began to paint pictures.

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