Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-20
From Over the Water.
III
HOTEL DE FLANDERS, ANTWERP,
Belgium, July Sth, 1891.

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Belgium, July Sth, 1891. {
We have just come up from a delicious
supper Of bread. butter, chocolate, milk
and plum marmalade. There are so many
kinds OF bread and rolls here in England.
They are all delicious, not q bit like our
bakers bread at home. am almost
ashamed of the way l eat-terociously
hungry three times day-but the others
all have the same experience so far as I've
observed. Oh, the strawberries in Eng
land, YOU never saw anything like it.
Some as large as as hen eggs, and so
sweet, Those in Holland were very large
and nice, but not quite so sweet. Last
night we were at the Hague, and the
incest cheese ever tasted. and milk and
butter too were so good. There ought to
be plenty of dairy products, for We saw
great many fine cattle in the meadows.
Black and white. they all were. Holstein
| suppose. There are great many sheep
here and in England, too. We passed
through part OF the Shropshire country
and PROBABLY saw some "blooded'' sheep,
though we did1't know it.
But, to leave such unaesthetic objects;
we've seen the art galleries in Amster-
dam and the Hague, and can now talk
@libly about Rembrandt, Rubens' etc
which we saw '.whtn we were abroad
BUT. seriously. think W ere all getting a
better ;!ea Of art and learning to apprec-
late Rembrandt more nearly than ever
befure-cven the most unartistic Of lis.
such a myself, enjoy looking at some OF
these fine paintings and getting what we
can out Of them. We came across Pro-
fessOr Wright Yesterday in the art gallery
in Amsterdam, and this morning we un-
eXpectedly met Mrs. Spear, Miss Rine
aud Mis- )urgin in the Hague. Several
times we We seen people who were on the
''Citv Of Paris" with us, and the world
doesn't seem so large after all. Mrs,
White and Edith lett us in London Mon
day night. and, Suppose, are almost set
tied in Paris by this time; we shall see
them when we go there
| must tell you about our last day IL
London. Westminster Abbey in the |
MOI flIE8- We Iidu ~ NUiL tAiIAiA wv N' |
o'clock before we could go around, be- |
cause of the Episcopal church service. |
SO We didn't have as much time as we
needed. The exterior is Just like the pic |
lures lave seen of it: the interior much |
finer than Iexpected-the ceilings Imean-
Some Of the monuments disappointed me |
The poets corner is not so large as had |
thought. There saw the bust OF Long |
fellow. those of Burns, Thackeray, Ma
cauley and Sir John Franklin | noticed |
There is fine tablet TO John |
and Charles Wesley, one to Isaac " ats, |
q fine statue in honor OF James Watt, one
to Wordsw orth and countless others.
Every spot in the walls and floor Is COW
cred with a tablet or monument, so It |
would appear. Ofcourse we gazed at the
royal tombs. Mary, Queen of Scots,
Elizabeth. Edward the Confess0r and |
lords and ladies ad intinitum. We saw |
the chair. too, in which the sovereign OF
ENGLAND is crowned. A large. awkward, |
old wooden chair. with initials carved all /
over il. | should like to copy some of
the lnscflpLlOHS, WISH @t SAhN nav |
time to stop there a while on our way |
back. In the afternoon we saw part OF
the British Musuem. The famous Eigin |
marbles. the Rosetta stone, old copies OF |
the Bible (Alexandrine) are the things we /
all see. that everybody sees and you can !
read up in the encyclopaedia. There |
were statues from Egypt-some OF them |
as old as sixteen hundred before Christ. |
Mrs. Hovt found one dated 2500 B. c.
The carving oD some of those old sar-
cophagi is as fresh as is newly made.
We had glimpses of Chinese and japanese
ware. venetian glass, old watches, and. /
more interesting still, the circular read |
ing room. containing over eighty thous-
and volumes, with places for four hun
dred and fifty readers. L want to try and
the different restaurants we
stonDed in for luach and III tell you
about them sometime.
We left London at eight Monday night
and sailed FROM Harwich pronounced II
,3iculouslv Awidge1 about ten. We went
to Rotterdam and had breakfast before
the boat landed next morning, Twas
long trin acros. the channel, but most
successful one. We all bad berths and
slept quite we'll. None OF Us were sick at
all