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Title: Travel letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937
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Publisher: Topeka, KS : Crane & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ouche baths. The New-Zealandersare fond of bathing, and there is never a lack of bath-rooms in their hotels. ... I have before referredto the fact that women out here wear afternoon andevening dresses in the morning; I believe I would havenoticed the custom had not Adelaide called my atten-tion to it. V/hen the ship landed this morning, a prettywoman we admired, dressed in white satin and whitekid slippers for the occasion. . . . On our wayup-town, we passed a store labeled the Clobbery. Thestock seemed to consist of gents furnishing goods.Perhaps an English friend can tell you where the wordClobbery comes from; I never heard of it before.. . . After dinner, we walked about the streets ofAuckland. Adelaide wore what is known at home asa Peter Thompson suit, and it attracted so muchattention that I asked her to return to the hotel andchange it. There were great crowds on the streets,and they seemed to think Adelaide was a member of alady brass band of which I was director. She took off
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NEW ZEALAND, AUSTEALIA, AND AFRICA. 45 the Peter Thompson, and put on a gray suit madeby a man tailor in Kansas City, but she still lookedfunny to the people, for they continued to stare at her.She wore a Panama hat for which I paid $12 (markeddown from $20), and I thought she looked pretty well,but she was a sight to many of the people of Auckland.. . . We heard a brass band, and walked that way.It turned out to be a Salvation Army band of thirtymen. The players wore red coats, and played likeprofessionals. The men and women in the processionwere much more decent-looking than members of theSalvation Army at home. There were no guitars, andno tambourines; the music was furnished by an ex-cellent band of thirty men. It was a very respectableoutfit in every way, and finally disappeared into a the-atre. In Auckland, Sunday theatricals are prohibited,and religious services are held in every theatre twiceon Sunday. In the early evening, while on the streets,we encountered the big Salvation

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