The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-21

Kensington Museum. On Sabbath
morning we went to Christ Church
Chapel. The Chapel is connected
with a boys school known as Christ
Church Hospital. 1t was founded
about the middle of the sixteenth
century by King Edward VI. The
boys all dress in a quaint costume
adopted at that time. 1t consists of
bright yellow hose reaching to the
knee and the knee-pants of navy
blue, the coat, which is also of blue.
has tight waist and a skirt which
reaches to the ankle. The white lin
en- collar has two tabs like those of a
Roman Catholic Priest. About the
waist is a brown leather belt an inch
and half wide. The metal buttons
ON the coat bear the image of the
founder of the school. On account of
the peculiar costume the school is
often called "The Blue Coat School."
The boys wear no hats except during
extreme heat or severe cold.
In the evening went to hear the
Rev. Mr.. Haweis preach. He is a
great literary and musical critic as
well as clergyman of the Church of
England had almost said instead
of a clergyman, for am sdre his dis
course that evening was much more
like a literary lecture than a sermon.
His subject was "Tenuyson." OF
course it was a literary treat, but
there was nothing of spiritual food in
it, and when l heard him announce
that on next Sabbath his topic would
be 1.-THE Shorter Poems of Browning"
1 could not help wondering if the
time is coming when ministers will
not need the Bible from which to
draw texts.
From London we went to Liver
pool. Tuesday evening Nov. 1st, we
boarded the "ROumelia" of the Pap
pyanni Line bound for Constantine
pie. There was high wind and
dense fog, so that evening we went
only to the edge of the harbor. We
felt annoyed at the delay but dared
not grumble for while in London we
had learned that the storm ON the At
lantic, which merely caused us a lit
tie inconvenience, had wrecked a ship
just south of US, 1.-THE Roumania,l and
we were glad that our Captain was
cautious. And indeed we had reason
TO be grateful for in the morning we
learned that during the night two
boats cOllided, one man being drowned
and another having his leg broken.
At Holly Head we had another
vexatious delay of eight hours, but
many times during the succeeding
week We would almost have been
glad to be anchored off Holly Head
again. L thought L knew something
of sea-sickness, but all previous
knowledge sank into insignificance
before the experiences of that time.
The Bay of Biscay has bad reputa-
ton and on that occasion it evidently
behaved its worst. You may imag-
the Stewardess herself was so sick
that for forty-eight hours she could
eat nothing, and the Chief Steward,
who has been on the sea for twenty
five years, was himself sick. One
lady of our party said ~ have cross
ed the ocean three times, l have been
on the Mediterranean, the Adriatic,
the Black and the Caspian Seas, and
this is the first time | was ever sea-
sick" AT times we had to hold on to
the rails to keep from being pitched
headlOng out of our berths, and things
went flying about our state room in a
to remind one of a Kansas
cyclone.
met with only two accidents and
they both occurred one afternoon after
| was able to be on deck. At four
o'clock our afternoon tea was served
on deck as usual, and the wind liter |
ally scouped the tea out of my cup
and deposited it over me. was quite |
weak after my long fit of sea-sickness,
and the effort to get dried off and |
about exhausted me. 1 |
had just settled myself in my steam
again with my rugs and |
shawls tucked about me when the |
ship gave a tremendous lurch, the
back legs of my chair were lifted from |
the deck, and, like a helpless num-
my, rolled the entire width OF the
deck, never stopping until / reached
the railing.
1t was source of great grief to me
hat l was too ill to take much inter-
est in the places which we passed,
or many of them are noted. First
was Trafalgar Bay with its memories
If Nelson and "the great naval battle
If the worlds histOry.n We had a
view of Gibralter-famil-
arly called "Gib" in that part of the
he wOrld-and then we sailed out
nto the historic waters of the Medit-
rranean. Our first stop was at NAL
a. Our course thither led us past st.
'aul's Bay, which tradition says is [
he spot where Paul was ship-wreck- {
d, (Acts XVII and XXVIII,) "the 1
lace where two seas metz being sup I
'osed to be between the island of s
lalta and another island. The sea
7as very rough the day we went in,
hey say it is always so, and it is not t
TRANCE that the ships of the first GEN. t
Try found difficulty ia withstanding g
fierce storm. /
We reached Valetta on the island S
Malta Saturday night. On Sun t
ay morning we were sursrised by t
Ill from Mr.. VIM. Eddy, of Syria. |,
re had told him and his wife good
we in New York, had repeated our t,
rewells in Liverpool and here they N
ere landed in the harbOr of Valetta fe
st few hours later than ourselves 81
ur two parties went on shore togeth-
+, attended services at the Scotch 81
church and then paid t,
tile visit to the Church of st. John, n
closely associated with history dur te
o. the CruSades MANY of tho m