The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-25
THE lola REGISTER.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER p, 1891.
OYER LAND AND SEA.
WINDERMERE, SEPT. 20, 1891

AAetlA hOliCSlNh
who babe goodbye to the Man from
Massachusetts, in the great North
western depot at Liverpool yesterday
morning, though the train he boarded
was TO carry him to the most beauti-
full region in all this beautiful island,
the English Lake region. TO part
from friends who are starting for home
and to travel alone i'm strange land
Is not the most cheerful business in
the world. And when to these con-
ditiOns are added an uninviting land
scape and gloomy weather, the jour-
ney is apt to take on mnch the as
pect of what Josiah Aliens wife
would term pleasure eXertiOn."
The west coast of England is the
land of factories and collieries, and
has few of the pleasant features of the
Midland counties. There are some
pretty stretches of green meadows, to
be sure, but there are too many black
pits and too many blazing furnaces
and smoking chimneys. Numerous
towns are passed, but only two are
viewed with any special interest.
One of these is Preston, where Peter
Arkwright, the inventor, was born,
and where the temperance movement
was Graded. And the other is Lam
caster, where close by the road side,
stands the still well preserved and
imposing castle which was once the
home of "Old John of Gaunt, time
hOnOred Lancaster AS we get
farther north the country and the
weather get rOugher and when the
train reaches the end of the road a
little after one o'clock, and stops at
the little village of Windermere it is
among high, wooded hills, that look
bleak and cheerless enough through
the cold driZzle Of rain that is falling.
There is nothing to see at Winder-
mere but the scenery, and as l did
not want to do that the injustice to
look at it when it was all drenched
and shivering, went directly to the
nearest hotel and spent the afternoon
writing some long delayed letters. 1t
was dreadfully cold in my room and
after writing with my OvercOat on
until six O'clock, went down stairs
expecting to get dinner, of which l
stood much in need having eaten
nothing since breakfast. The dining
room door was locked, however, and
/ found upon inquiry that dinner was
not served until 1870! Disappointed
i'm this direction L started to find
fire. The parlOr, the writing room,
the smoking room, the bar room, were
each in turn sought out but not
spark appeared in either of them.
These English are as cold-blOOded as
q fish. Determined not to freeze to
death, even if every body else in the
house did, / ordered fire in my room.
And l sat there and felt like an I'M
Inannerly brute while stately blonde,
who might have been a Duchess,
brought kindling and built it. 1t
was some comfort, of course, to reflect
that building fires was the girls bus
mess and that she probably wasn't a
Duchess. But it makes a man who
has been reared Christian feel rath-
er uncomfortable to have pretty
girl carry coal for him and black his
boots and run on all manner of errands
for him.
When the dinner gong finally
sounded | did not wait for a more
personal invitation, but went at once.
The tables in the small dining room
were filled and when the guests
were all seated, young clerical-loOk-
Ing person raped sharply on his plate
stood up and said, "FOr-these-and-
Observation-Disclosures"
and then sat down. I had never
heard a blessing asked over hotel
dinner befOre-though / have sat
down to many a one that sadly need
ed it-and it struck me as rather
queer. But I felt a great sympathy
for the young clerical-loOking person,
for it was evident, from his brevity
and haste, that he too had had moth
ing to eat since breakfast. After dinner
l again went to the public rooms, and
still no sign of q fire. And yet those
blOodless Englishmen sat there writ
ing their letters, reading their papers,
smoking their pipes-English cigars
are doubtless the worst in the world
and nobody but Americans smoke
them-and slipping their beer, as
calmly as if it were summer weather.
And they are probably sitting there
vet while l am basking in the warm
glow of the bed of Goals from my
CRATE, scribbling these notes and med
itating on the difference between peO- !
pie.
MELROSE SCOTLAND, SEPT. 4, 81
The second day at Windemere was
like the first, clark and cold and I
tireary" But late in the afternoon, |
when / climbed TO seat on the top !
of the coach that was TO take me to /
Grasmere the rain ceased and the sun |
came out and there was glorious I
view of the long, narrow winding |
lake, with its. dozens of little, green,
islands, and its high and heavily |
wooded shores, between which, away |
N tho xy.,St ono conId catch tho olaam