The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-11


 our suits were intended for all kinds of weather, neither too hot nor too cold; not too heavy, and yet warm enough. If you are wearing Woolen clothing and are wet through, and the clothing dries on you, there will be no inconvenience from it. I think If l were going again I should have some thing waterproof to put on in case of sudden showers. But waterproof nla- terial gives no outlet for the heat of the body, and if worn any length of time the moisture which will form will dampen the clothing, and when the waterproof is removed there is @ cold, clammy feeling, which is very dis agreeable. I know that from eXperi- ence.
 Another thing that would have for another touring expedition would be a. gear ease to cover the chain and sprocket of the wheel. They are not so much used here, but they are used very generally there. 1t is all very well not to have them when you are at home. and only go out in pleasant weather, and perhaps have some one to clean your wheel but in touring, when the roads are a little muddy, and the mud gets into your chain and sprocket, it is great nuisance. They tell me these gear cases need not be re- moved more than once a year.
 Our programme for the day in tour ing was something like this: In the | first place, I may say that it is much more difficult to get am early breakfast in England than 1t is in America, or even on the continent. The best we could get would be bread and butter and coffee and eggs, something which would not require the use of the regu- ! lar stove. The very earliest we could ! get this would be between and l o'clock. And this seems strange, for it is light so early in England. We ! would then ride our wheels until about il, when we would stop for something l to drink. Miss Jarvie would take milk, and my favorite tipple was
 shandygaff, half ginger ale and half beer The beer gives the tonic quali- | ties, and the ale gives life.
 We stopped for luncheon about 1 o'clock. This was always cold, but ex- celent There would be beef and ham, which were very good, and in the larger l inns meat pies, veal and chicken-pies with salad. lettuce, bread and butter l and some light dessert In some of the | moderate-sized inns we would find the
 table spread and the joint and ham deli cious. Very often we would have to do our own carving. The climate is such | that it is possible to ride at any time during the day without inconvenience. There is never the extreme heat we have hnr c%o Io1 upon the place. Sometimes we would stop an hour and a half at noon
 "The inns in England are all delight l full, always clean, and, while there is not
 a varied bill of fare, everything is good
 and well cooked. There is nothing better l than the bacon they have. The second
 and third class inns are infinitely better than the corresponding establishments
 in this country. Most of the inns are
 old ones, there are very few which are new, and the increase of coaching and
 bicycling is bringing them prosperity again. They were all delightful. Dick
 ems has never written anything about
 them which was not deserved. There was one delightful old inn about 12
 miles from Manchester. It had a beauti- ful lawn around 1t, a lawn such as we
 never see in this country. Inside there
 were charming old silver and pretty blue china The proprietor, seeing that we were interested, took Us around the | building, and in the pantry we saw the i arches of what 800 oi. 300 years ago was
 a cloister. Everything green We had on the table that day was taken directly
 from the garden. The potatoes were dug for us and the lettuce and the straw
 berries were picked fresh.
 we came to one beautiful litble inn
 not far from Stonehenge. It was all
 covered with roses. There was tap
 room, and opening from that a little
 room which was the family parlor, and
 there our luncheon was served. The I daughter of the house waited upon us.
 A number of generations of her ances-
 tors had kept the inn. There were fami- l ly portraits upon the walls, and, what I
 was very much surprised to see, certif-
 cates of two sons who were at Cam bridge. We saw frequently Sunday
 school certificates given for punctuality
 and good scholarship at the places we
 stopped We looked upon the meal that
 we had that day as one of the pleasant
 est that we had I remember we were I StlNcu Wllu GlSHt eSSS, WHICH we u4S-
 posed of, some lettuce, and my daugll- ter had milk and I my shandygaff. The
 whole cost us 50 cents.
 we got into the habit of having afternoon tea while we were riding, stopping about o'clock for this, and dinner we had as late as possible, be-
 tween and g. to give us a long day. Our longest days ride while we were | away was AS miles, and one day we did l not ride more than F miles. In North l Devonsflire we rode from 20 to 25 miles
 a day, and that was often more than l the AS miles in other parts of the coun- | try.
 Touring in this country is not as sat l isfactory as abroad, for, while in sec 1 tions the roads are very good, you are
 apt to come upon roads which are very l bad in going any distance. In France l the roads average aswell as in England, | but the scenery is not so good, the cha 1 teaus are gloomy and bare, and there are not the beautiful landscapes, the ] hedgeroWs, and the cottages covered | with roses. Some of these were entire
 ly covered, up to the matched roof and | in others the roof itself was a. mass of
 roses Some of the cottages had apricot
 and pear trees trained against them, the fruit hanging against the walls. The heather was in full bloom the men were cutting hay, and the grain fields were