This gave us an opportunity of seeing and
studying the real life of the people in the country districts. We
went in this way as far as Rotterdam, and later went to The Hague,
where the Peace Conference was then in session, and where we were
kindly received by the American representatives.
The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the
thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein
cattle. I never knew, before visiting Holland, how much it was
possible for people to get out of a small plot of ground. It seemed
to me that absolutely no land was wasted. It was worth a trip to
Holland, too, just to get a sight of three or four hundred fine
Holstein cows grazing in one of those intensely green fields.
From Holland we went to Belgium, and made a hasty trip through
that country, stopping at Brussels, where we visited the battlefield
of Waterloo. From Belgium we went direct to Paris, where we found
that Mr. Theodore Stanton, the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had
kindly provided accommodations for us. We had barely got settled in
Paris before an invitation came to me from the University Club of
Paris to be its guest at a banquet which was soon to be given. The
other guests were ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Archbishop
Ireland, who were in Paris at the time.
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