The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-09-06
RAMBLES ABROAD.
Prof. Hinston's Pleasant and Prcfita.
Die Jaunt in Europe-..The w ONE of
Several Nations.

Special Correspondence Of The Chronicle
CHAPEL HI.L, Sep /, 1sS4.-Prof. Win
ston, after four months tour in Europe.
has returned home looking bronzed and
We'll. Your correspondent dropped in on
hlm the other day. and found him bri,n-
tul OF humor and interesting reminiscent
ces, and ready, as he ever is, to enter
tain his friends. He showed me lots of
pictures he had brought from Rome and
other places, some being of we'll known
pieces of statuary, and others Of distin-
guished personages. The most striking
of the latter We're the pictures of Goethe
and Schiller. Schiller's face had a seri-
BUSINESS and tinge of sadness about il
which bespeaks the moral and conscien-
tlous man that he was. On the other
hand, Goethe has rounded features, with
his halr falling in waving ringlets on his
shoulders. His w:ole expression has a
kind of dash about it that one would ex-
pect to see in a great actors.
Professor Winston visited England.
Scotland, France, Italy, Switzerland and
Germany. In reply to my question about
how the people impressed him, he said:
- The French impress me as being the
hveliest, sprightliest people | ever saw.
They have the keenest perceptions and
seem to enjoy gay life to the utmost. The
French women are vivacious and spark
ling, and after seeing the exquisite taste
with which they ornament themselves,
and the originality they display in getting
up their unrivalled costumes, l can easily
see why it is that Paris dictates what
kind of garments the rest of the
world shall wear.
The Italian women are the most
beautiful | have ever seen anywhere.
ThaV
and tasteful in their dress. They have
not the sprightliness of the French wo-
men, but look as if they were better
dressed, though they really do not spend
one fifth as much for ornament as the
French. Nature has blessed her more
abundantly than other women. You
can see in her features and form finer
workmanship. In Italy the women man
age the shops and restaurants, as rule
They are fully as graceful and gentle and
beautiful as they are represented to be.
l also enjoyed the Italian landscapes very
much. There is picturesqueness and
naturalness about it-howeyer artificial
it may be-that strikes one very favor
ably. The grapevines, for instance, hang
in festoons from tle3 to tree, instead of
being trained over arbors. In these vine
yards | have often seen the Italians en-
joying their moonlight dances, while the
soft Italian music would hold one in de-
lightful dreamy meditation for honrs.
Sometimes | surrendered myself to the
genius of the place and took my lunch at
wayside inn, listening to the strains of
Italian music exquisitely rendered by
strolling minstrels. | had to pay them
only penny Or two, and the music was
much superior to the Italian string band
music we have here.
''After spending several days proftably
and pleasantly at Rome, Naples, Genoa,
Florence, Milan and Venice, enjoying most
of all the fine art and statuary, journey
ed upward into Germany. l visited here
the principal cities and universities.
spent month at the university of Gnt-
tingen in study. While there, lived just
as the German students live l roamed.
ate, walked, talked, studied, and frolicked
with them. In fact, / was one of them
for the time, and enjoyed it immensely.
''The German women strike me as being
coarser and rougher than their French or
Italian sisters. They are very powerfully
built, and an American would call them
too masculine. The Germans are the
greatest musicians 1 ever saw German
music like the spirit of its people, is grand
and martial. The kind of music a nation
likes is pretty good index to a nations
character. French music is quick and
sprightly, while the Italian is slow aud
dreamy"
''About drinking in the old country"
| asked? "Well l should say that they
were a continent of drinkers. 1t seems
that everybody drinks. They do not drink
as much whiskey and brandy as the Ameri-
cans, but great deal more beer and light
wine. In France and Italy, everybody
who has patch of ground has a vineyard.
He makes his own wine and drinks it when |
he pleases-which is very often. In a
great many places | found it difficult to
get water. | never saw a man take a |
drink of water while I was on the Cont
nent. The only way I could get water
without difficulty was by going to place
where wine and beer was kept for sale,
and offering the keeper the price Of a glass
Of beer for glass of water
Chow about amusements %
''They are fully as fond of amusements
as we Americans, if not more so. They
have a good many games that are the |
same as we have, and then they have cele-
orations and festivals and excursions with
out limit | noticed this, too, that the
great day for amusements was Sunday /
If you hear of any great celebration that |
IS to take place, you may calculate, almost
Tor certainty, that it will take place on
Sunday. This is especially the big day for
theatres and lotteries"
Professor Winston went from Germany
% England and Scotland. In England he
visited Kenilworth Castle, Stratford on
Avon, London, York, Leeds, Oxford, and
some other places In London he visited
he art galleries, Parliament, and dozens
# other places of interest. He says that
England is the only place that looked as if
t were all fixed and exactly right. Here
le found order, neatness, beauty and
strength. He says that the English old
aides are the finest looking he saw any
where. They take great deal of out
Ioor exercise, and grow old gracefully,
and beautifully. They walk
great deal and are as dashing fox-hunt-
rs as you will find any where.
The professor expresses himself as hav-
ng been greatly pleased, instructed, and
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