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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938

1927-04-13 Page 40

-40- contained two pigs squealing. Two wheeled carts were numerous alongside of the train windows; boys trying to sell fruit and a variety of things. So mamma would hand out a handful of change after buying an article and let them find the right coins: as she did not know them. The German people looked as if they would get to the bottom of things. And were thrifty and industrious. In the south they saw no horses; all oxen to do the farm work. The fields went in strips up high slopes; with no fences between. And every where things looked clean and tidy. I missed telling that two or three days after we first came to Roiseland, while I was sitting in the meeting room; and Georgetta standing near me, a pretty colored little bird came to the window, and looking at me sang a sweet song fluttering its wings so as to hold its self in one spot without lighting: and then flew away. Georgetta exclaimed, "Wasn't that the sweetest little thing!" We felt it to be supernatural. And took it as a loving greeting of incouragement

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-40- contained two pigs squealing. Two wheeled carts were numerous alongside of the train windows; boys trying to sell fruit and a variety of things. So mamma would hand out a handful of change after buying an article and let them find the right coins: as she did not know them. The German people looked as if they would get to the bottom of things. And were thrifty and industrious. In the south they saw no horses; all oxen to do the farm work. The fields went in strips up high slopes; with no fences between. And every where things looked clean and tidy. I missed telling that two or three days after we first came to Roiseland, while I was sitting in the meeting room; and Georgetta standing near me, a pretty colored little bird came to the window, and looking at me sang a sweet song fluttering its wings so as to hold its self in one spot without lighting: and then flew away. Georgetta exclaimed, "Wasn't that the sweetest little thing!" We felt it to be supernatural. And took it as a loving greeting of incouragement