Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-30


Here at q hotel which will compare favor
ably with those at home, We two Washington
girls have been spending several weeks wait
ing for our friends to return from an italian
trip. We are the only English-speaking people
in the hotel, and il is great fun to comment on
the Russian, French and German aristocracy
at the table d'hote, for We have q German
baron on one side and Russian count and
family on the other. Much to our surprise
the other evening We were addressed in very
good English by young man who looked any
thing but an American. During the CONVERSE
ton we learned that he was a Hollsndese, aud
that he had come to Montreux to consult an
eminent physician. J. after the manner of
American girls concluded he was prince
in disguise, but my enthusiasm came to a sud-
den check upon my friends suggesting that he
was probably drummer of patent medicine.
He Is finely educated and very intelligent and
when he found that We were from Washington
he asked II there was not q White House there,
saying he had seen pictures Of one in his
geography when o child. Surely 1t takes the
conceit out Of ono to travel abroad. Seeing us
write long letters home he said ''the water
would run down to the edge of his teeth" to re-
eeive such voluminous packets. Rather an
oddly expressed compliment, was 1t not? He
then told Us how it made him weep when a
child because he was not allowed to wear the
little wooden shoes such as the peasant chill
dren wore-thcy were SO nice to slide With
But enough Of the foreigner.
PICTURE.
We two lonesome, homesick girls were walk.
ing up one Of the queer little narrow streets
the other day looking into the shop windows,
when, what should We see but picture of our
own Mrs.. Cleveland! 1t was on . cigarette adj
vertisement and in beer saloon window but
what did We care? There We stood and gazed
IN perfect rapture, much to the astonishment
Of the passers-by, and when at last we turned
to 20 We both felt that We had heard from
home.
I have not yet told you Of the kursaal where
. band discourses fine music twice every day. but
enough has been said, and. in closing, would
suggest that when you come to Switzerland you
stop and rest in this quaint little Swiss village
before going TO Chamouni and Mount Blanc,
which lie just over the mountain. AKR
writtsn for TEE Evxxuo srAl.
A Misty Morning on the Potomac.
veil Of haze lay DER the rivers breast
Enshrouding all within its ieecy folds,
A rev'rie all my brooding being holds
And iuiis my softly siump'ring soul 70 rest
Each iowring biun along the shore Is dressed
In garments grim and ghostly like gsuns
Ghouls,
The swayins trees upraiss 10 hsav'n their souls
Upon the steep and crssgy cliffs capped crest
But loi the sun In cleaning Orient
Has risen from his emerald jeweled bed
And glstenine bright the sky gleams overhead.
Now swift away from earth and armament
He drives the mantiing mst In fight afar,
Beyond the pale Of The horison' bar.
&C. NJ. BUCHANAN.
Waahinston, D. G., August 90, 1890. h
The most valuable metal In tho world 10 said
70 bs gallium, quoted At %, $50 an ounce. And
yet the average man fnds that gold 10 good
enough for him, modestly renarking. "Let me
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