Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-11


man with many medals bowling ac-
acknowledgement Of the deafening cheers
from the multitude that lined the
shores. The sight of sights, however.
came when we were opposite the
largest mandatory of aniline dyes in
the world. Pipes containing different
colored dyes were laid along the bed
of the river, and as the Dukes ship
started the waters of the Rhine were
forced through them and into the air
nearly 100 feet showing the most eX-
quisite coloring, pale pink deepening
to darkest shade of crimson then fad
ing, to be replaced by faintest tint of
yellow deepening gradually to sulphur.
then giving way to green
in every known shade. The water for
a long distance was tinged with the
different hues and it all made charm
ing and most unusual spectacle. There
are those who declare that Mannheim
is most uninteresting with it's regular
straight lines of streets, it's many
"Fabriken' as the manufactures are
termed but, like other things, that de-
ponds upon ones point of view. To u:;
it was the most homelike spot in
Europe, the shops attractive, the opera
fine, it's people as our own people, its
public park, not only beautiful to look
upon, but practically beneficial to tn:
children--a large portion being reserved
as q play ground. There every sort of
sport is furnished, for tiny tots as well
as boys and girls of u. A man il.
charge assists in stretching nets for
tennis, or in placing crOquet wickets.
ard also sees all right protected At
O'Clock fresh milk and bread is served
for the children at trifiing cost.
While sitting at tables beneath the
trees, the mothers talk, sew, and drink
chocolate. Feeling we were leaving a
place grown very dear, reluctantly we
said "auf wiedersehen' to Mannheim
and began our Rhine trip.
1t was early in the morning when we
left, and though the sun was shining
it was a chilly wintry smile accom-
panied by clustering breeze When
on board the Lohengrin we tried to
warm ourselves with our enthusiasm.
but found it utterly lacking the caloric
stored in coal, so crept UP close beside
the smoke stack, and thus shielded we
began to watch the changing panorama
with ever increasing pleasure. We
glided by fair Bingen, the vine-clad
hills, the ruined castles. We saw "tEe
Mouse Tower" whose story made US
cover in our childhood days, and as we
passed it we drew our skirts more
closely round us fearing one of that
self-same swarming multitude might
still be left. The charm of clustering
villages, the grandeur of high preci-
pices, the romance and the poetry Of
the Rhine, made us forget ourselves n
dreaming meditation from which we
were awakened by the kissing of a
locomotive and as the train rushed by,
along the very shore of the river we
said 1T never can be as it was, in
creasing traffic dulls that halo that sur
rounds these ideal places;" and we did
not wonder that the Lorelei left her
rocky height when it was desecrated by
being blasted for tunnel. At Bonn
we broke our journey for two reasons
the first prosaic as it reads was to try
and thaw, If possible, our frozen
frames. It is never wise to judge the
customs Of country too hastily.
Time-and weather-work wonders.
We feel that the only opportunity for
offering PREPARATION to the feather
comforters of Germany, lies through
the columns Of the Journal. therefore
alphabetically we recall the gibes, the
SCOTS and sneers with which before our