Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-07
AN ENGLISH VILLAGE.
Some Bright Observations by . Wash.
fnEton Artist.

Some Bright Observations by . wash.
ington Artist.
Special Correspondence Of THE Evrxme srAl
EvKsHAN, Enc, Oct
Al have few hours leisure before starting
for London and Paris, may a. well finish up
my English letters by giving you short de-
scription Of this pretty place.
1.-THE Vale Of Evesham," 40 il IL called,
though numbering . population Of only Ave
thousand souls, il important - being the GEN.
ter OF the richest gardening country in Eng
land. The village has but two streets and hall
q dozen short bywsya Tho Avon makes .
perfect horse hoof bend Of about Q mile and
the village or town 10 the frog Of the foot
Within the radius Of q fe " miles there are
other pretty little villages Of matched cottages,
old stone houses. with an occasional modern
brick one, crooked streets and the usual
square.steepled church. The people are
Sssne,sy very T.. s0odn.ureda special,
minded and thick-headed, as o rule. During
the three months have been in Engisnd I
have not heard an Englishman tell = story or
perpetrate joke, and slang seems to be I'M
known. They have few odd sayings which
are, however, dry chestnuts. Outside Of Lon
don have heard but one man swear and he
was bowling drunk. In all this region they
have no gas except in the inns AID best pri-
vats houses and then only on the first floor.
Candles are in universal use for bed room
one can smell long after he has blown them
out, and can even taste in his dreams.
HOW TIE PEOPLE KEEP WARM.
How the people here keep warm In winter il
q puzzle to me. The hreplaces are seldom
larger than my two hands and there seem to
be very few stoves. Nearly all the old houses
have stone floors on the first story. Generally,
and always in wet weather, these floors are 80
damp that il keep my feet still In one place
for three minutes the water comes to the sur
face. Why the people don't all die young is .
mystery. Az it is rheumatism has q jolly old
time during the winter.
The dropping Of his is frightful and leads to
continual Misunderstanding by Americans.
For instance, ! was told must not miss seeing
certain town which is very near here.
looked ON the map repeatedly for a month
man write it for me. 1t was Hereford, which is
here pronounced 'Er-e-ford
VISIT TO MILLEr.
Yesterday hired tricycle. and rode to
Broadway, six miles of over fine country
road I found my friend F. D. Millet settled
there in grand, artistic style. His house and
nook and corner subject for a picture. He
lives there with his family half the year and
the other half in New York. His studio, Is by
80 faet, is simply perfect. In it he has built
an Amense fireplace OF We olden time and has
fitted it up with old irons and cranes Of 200
years ago. doubt if there il finer thing Of
its kind in all Europe. He has bought An old
stone house built for monastery and dating
back TO the fourteenth century. He ia now
having it restored to its original condition, as
far as possible. This he intends to furnish
throughout as q studio, and his ambition is to
make it the finest studio in the world. Already,
without any restoring, there are enough ine
old windows, corners, walls and doorways to
supply him with backgrounds for pictures for
the rest of his life, and when he finishes his
designed improvements he will have perfect
paradise for figure and interior painter.
AQUAINT ENGLISH TOWN.
Broadway is little place of only 1,6O0 peo-
pie, but is the pretsiest, quaintest English
town have yet seen.
There seems to DO more business done in
EvesAam than in any of the surrounding towns,
and have been able to get meat here every
day.
The Avon Is beautiful little stream here,
about thirty-five yards wide, and is spanned
by three arched bridges
There are three steepled churches here and
one old, very old. and majestic bell tower con-
tanning chime of fine bells that ring about
every three hours. Last night l happened to
be awake at o'clock. The great bell was
striking the hour over the quiet town and then
the chimes PEAKED forth "Home, Sweet Home. :"