Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-08-05
FROM OVER THE OCEAN.
How Carlsbad and Bayreuth Look to
some Ellsworth Girls.
Extracts from letters to the editor J

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LUcERNE, SWITZERLAND,
| July p, 1897
| We are certainly having fine time;
didn't expect this trip would be so lovely.
/ don't believe we will have time to write
anything for the paper until We get to
Geneva.
We left Dresden July 5, and have been
on the ego" all day long and every day
since. 1t has all been so interesting that
| don't know where to begin.
First was Carlsbad with its boiling
springs and bilious folks. They must
have thought We were healthy -looking to
be drinking the hot water. One morning
we got up at 5 O'Clock and took our cups
and went to the biggest spring. That is
the time " hen all the peopleare out. Those
" no are taking the cure have TO drink
the water on an empty stomach early in
| the morning, and visitors are out TO see 1t
all. Bands play every morning.
Girls with white water-proots ON stand
around the big sprudel; they have long
sticks, on the end Of which they fastcn Il
cup and so catch the water. At the other
/
/ 1t looks so funny to see every body run
ming around with their little cups, in
each Of which is napkin, strapped over
the shoulders. The water when taken
4 fresh from the springs is boiling hot,
and napkin is needed to keep ones
hands from scalding.
| Everyone at Carlsbad seems to think
| alI t,a
| guess in Paris people don't dress much
! giddier Many Poles go there, and they
are the "kilingest" looking set l ever
saw. Some OF them wear little curl
over each ear. They all wear cloaks that
! reach nearly down to their ankles and
| hig h-topped boots. Their hats are large,
| plain black things. Everything Is pretty
expensive at Carlsbad you see the people
have to make enough in the summer TO
last them the year round.
| There are many fine buildings there;
the Kaiser bad is said to be the finest and
grsndest in all Europe. The air is just
fine, so fresh and bracing. They are very
careful in all the cafes and hotels about
the food; they have to be because there
are so many sick people around.
The town itself is picturesquely stu
ated. There are mountains on all sides,
and some Of the ioveliest walks can be
made. On one walk we went to a place
called the Franz Joseph's Hole Mt the
top OF mountain. and there vi had the
loveiest view From distance the town
doesn look very picturesque, As you sc
mostly the large. square modern hotels
with Their green blinds.
We heard an afternoon concert in a gar
den belonging to Pup, no OWNS TIE
largest hotel here. Concerts are going GA
every might. There is an opera here,
fairly good Some people We met said
the operas were very Well gwen. While
others said it wouldn' matter II the sing
ers were better.
From Carlsbad We went TO Bayteuth.
You can imagine that there We found
good deal TO interest US. We got there
AT o'clock We left our things at the
station and made n bee line for The opera
house. We didn't know there was going
to be probe (rehearsall though, but
there was one at O'Clock.
ne SAW frHu wagner anu Iots oi tHe
singers. The guard told US there was
going to be general rehearsal the follow
ing day for the Rheingold, and OF course
we went. We saw our friend The Kid"
(Herr Wachter); he seemed quite sur
prised and amused at seeing us there.
Herr Perron and his brother were there;
we know the brother.
That day We saw Frau Wagner again
and her son Siegfried and one OF her
daughters; she has two. We were in
troduced to Marion Weed after the re-
hearsal, and she gave us her autograph.
She sung one OF the principal parts in
the Rheingold, the part Witch sings in
Dresden.
OF what we saw in Nuremberg and
Munich and Lindau and Constance and
other places, will write you later.