Penelope's Postscripts

by Kate Douglas Wiggin




Contents:

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



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 it.
She knows that I am simply jealous because I came from a vulgarly
large tribe that never had any coat-of-arms, and whose ancestors