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...GREAT WIDE BEAUTIFUL WORLD-Juanita Harrison-Macmillan...
...Juanita Harrison is a 45-year-old Negro lady's-maid who never stays long in one place. She invariably resigns her domestic job before she is fired. To Juanita work is simply the means of making enough money to move on. She began her travels at 16, and gradually got the ambitious notion of going round the world. In 1927 she had enough money saved to start. This diary of her eight-year journey through 22 countries was arranged (but not corrected) by the daughter of one of her employers-by-the-way. The title was not Juanita...
...preparation for her adventure Juanita studied Spanish and French, but personality was her Esperanto. Well-schooled in the ways of men, mistresses and markets, she never took long to get her bearings. A shrewd bargainer, she traveled and boarded thriftily, got many a free meal from gallant or hospitable foreigners. Whenever her money-belt grew thin she had no trouble getting a pleasant, well-paid job with some rich family, in London, Paris, Antibes, Cairo, Bombay, Barcelona, Madrid. Determined but optimistic, she took the rough with the smooth, enjoyed...
...Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...
...several letters to you on matters of personal interest, but this is the first time 1 have had occasion to mention anything in an official capacity. In the issue of March 19 you devote most of the Medicine section to a discussion of the birth of a child to Juanita Deere McClish, formerly a student here at Bacone College (not "Bacone Indian College & School''). You may be interested in a few comments which put a slightly different light on the story...