Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-17
And Something About the Peo-
pie Living in Them,
wAkEmAN's wANOEalNG8.
Panoramic sweeps OF Gray Ola Nests
which the Centuries Have softened
and Bsautlfed Evou In Age
sud Decay.


copyrighted 1893, by Edgar L.
WakemanJ
For The Gazette
London. April at Is no wonder
that the cookies of a Brton's heart, De
he Irish, Scotchman or English. thrill
with fadeless affection rs he recalls, IN
any foreign land, the Immediate environ
ment of the homespot that gave MN
birth Were ho but cotter's child, ana
knew 10 his youth-tide hours only the
fierce and hurtful stings Of penury, there
Is still UNRELIABLE charm In the backward
vista centering In the lowliest British
home.
il is because rural England--and u is
almost equally true of rural Scotland
aud Ireland-im nearly every square
acre Is 20 endearlng In It's age, associa-
ton and natural winsOuncness, that those
who possess IL. or those who have LETT
Il and for the absence, hold IL more ~
tensey close and precious, VIII justly
brook no bclittement. any moro than
you would let some smart stranger come
into your homo aud sncer ut your sweet
est and most cherished, N simple De.
longings- beautiful by effort, halowed
by time and use, oven more tenderly
loved for your own errors aud short com
Jugs without pitching both him and his
airs iucontinently into the highway.
II is such beautiful country; such
well-kppt and delicious cd garden; such
smiling land ia sunshine aud snug
and comfortable one Ia storm and with
al gNnag to the stranger within Il such
sense Of constant interest. coupled with
close human companionship and sympa-
thies that cynic and pug and incapable
Of interest in any land but HE own,
though one be. he cannot now aud then
repress n kindling enthusiasm, be- here
and there prckcd into secret admiration,
In this place and that find tender and as
sOhatiye interest
tu less than three hours journey.
on an English day In Mny time, what
innumcruble scenes of interest, Of stir
ring quality aud of rcstiuncss and re-.
pose fash upon YOU from your carriage
window, Still more gratefully fenstful
are the things one will see and feel. az
lnnumerable hamlots, steudiugs aud halls
are passed. Glorious old manor houses
lash from parks aud demesnc forests
Thatched roofs Of village homes. yellow
with llchen, are varied here aud there by
red tiling Avenues OF ancient elms
beech and lines give tempting ystas
above broad roads. tcssclatnd with lights
ana shades, and us gray and smooth us
Some old cathedral floor Crupppd 'pdprg
WIN Trim, tiny fields give place here md
there 10 downs, rolling away I'm bnlowy
mus OF heather, spangled with the golden
hepuCuel, or wide meadows aud tinv
marshes whore flames the yellow mar.
gold or whore the for. get me-uuts AFRO
30 dense aud blue that their surfnre
seems ike breezc-rippcd pool. IInw.
morn lanes are white above and beneath
rs hunks OF driven auow. Great masses
OF honeysuckle trail from copsp and
hedge; aud IN, around aud above mn tbis
Mhy-ume, nature heaven thrusbog AMI
ulu'bbirus, high above the ronrinr, ~
your train. food all the day with song
IN the tremendous object lesson and
hs H. re-, r'm IN EI which zach tiny Bit Of
nv iacr on England affords there Is a
no more Impressive study than tbnt M
EnEHsh villages and their folk. Tboso
NiIuges are the most delightful of pu
3nlects M every panoramic rural sccne
loser study reveals countless hidden
",oulloA Tor even age and decay here
possess mournful beauty and charm
70 the artistic aud yugrnpt mind Rr5
lnelr quaint quiet folk. OF whom SIM
PARTICULARLY speak iu another arti,,I,,
though regarded ns dumb ana soddSn
py many still provide one of tho most
In any land wv '"un'
Although many chauctristics az E,,
hsh Ellhlgcs differ Ia different slirpg ~,
~ lihcrent parts Of the snmc sbir, tb.y
an ieslye the sumo typical pictnrn In tb5
memory, When considered as n nnrt IA
t9e landscape ! never yet came IN mn
LnEllNh village, and have visited hun
ureuN on tuot, that ID had not the sam,
general mnsslnr of picturesque effects n,
~ uihers' THIS. too, whatever Ia rplo
I'VE typographical situation. IL ,yns ins
we same whether nestled i'm mn Avon
Mnhrte Derwont or Tnmar valc
i1igNpG1 upon a breezy southern down
lNll hidden IN the shadows of "a uidIun,
mn or peak; topping nlong the o,lre ~
ragged chine or lowcry burn, or ,yedgc,
eru moor. "'' "''''
There y stood ever n distinct an,
characteristic picture In Itself A riff a
low outlying cottages. tiny snlotcbns ~
white aud gray and rod M eitber Ell,
hecame lost towards the center In mvn
rlous shrubbery. Then A few g,blns
quaint and old. Thou another mass u
lolioge' deuser and Of darker hue Tho,
Jgmble! mass of higher gray, ana re,
y"s Nhu ouputtingS of more nrptep
nous structures. And finally the RirheS
nuss OF foliage, dominated hy perhons
pNI'ehented roof, above which nl,yay,
RISES a huge, square centurics-Old to,,r
mat tells Of the English parish rhurcl
hills. ''' NneVio
! sometimes think wonderful ana com
phct storehouse Of historic relies a
garnered urt and Of splendor h catbedra,
castle hall and mOnastc ruin ~ nh
England truly h., that after All I'M syveli
est part OF ones wauderings Is exper
ehceI away from the beaten lines a
a'ei among these gray old nests, whlc
the centuries have soltened mud beent
NED even in 'heir age and decay.
Come with me then, yagnntiv. into
lew OF these lovely old home-spots =
rural England. Not far 20 me n,rt
Of damp and grimy Liverpool Is prett
ormsAirk' IL Is half village and hal
town, Tor the splndles are humming ber
as almost everywhere M Iancasbifc on,
Yorkshire. Two hugo, white roads lea,
ing from green fields. which ,yrre Il,
passable morasses Ia oldon times. rising I
q gentle eminence intersoet tho nlaee M
ne Yerdure growth of four hundred Yea,
nlaost hlGes from view the nesting, al
Gent homes, the quaint old shops N