The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-02

ly tucked in the lavender fragrant
sheets of the White Hart inn? ANY
tourist can relate the sights of London
or tell of the beauty and age of the great
cathedrals, but we love best 10 recall
the old fashioned little gardens, with
their rows of gillyfiowers and beds of
marjoram or 10 laugh over the fright
of two strong minded cyclists who suf-
fered an agony of fear one midnight,
unduly alarmed by the weird activity
Of an Anticipated cuckoo clock or to go
over again the attempts TO discover the
fastening ON a completely lockless and
boltless chamber door by the uncertain
light of Pickering dip.
What a merry time we all had in
Manchester. mingling with a Sunday
school crowd and studying the dress
and coiffures of our English cousins
Even the sentry pacing up and down in
front OF the governor house had an in
terest for US, and no matter where our
wheels carried us, down shady lanes or
through noisy manufacturing towns,
we were everywhere treated as kindly
and shown as much courtesy and def
erence as if our metal steeds had been
veritable steeds of mettle, and we grand
DANES riding in our coach instead of |
mounted on bicycle saddle.
With the Unborn American pride of |
all good citizens and with the preju- |
dice against other lands the ignorant |
always feel we had determined "not TO |
go into ecstasies over anything, but
without a regret at our inconsistency
we forgot all about the chips we had
carrying on our shoulders,
and all GOODNESS and want of enthusiasm
were conquered by just the smiling
welcome of the rosy checked English
natron, with her young brood hanging
% her skirts and by the homelike shouts
# the little street gamins who stopped
heir play to rush after US with cries of
Let me h'up be'indP' or to wake the
choes in the village street by exclaim-
ne at the top Of their lungs, "Ere's er
Of OF Hamerican bi-sicklesl' TO some
ne within the house. That we wore
my flags upon our coats is true, but it
'as entirely unnecessary, so far as we
'ere able 10 judge, for wherever we
'ent that we four lone wheelwomen
'ere daughters of Uncle Sam seemed
be known intuitively at the first
lance by even the most dull witted of
lie queens subjects.
what 1t was that so clearly gave
way our nationality / know not. but
ossibly one of the little schoolmarms
1essed it when she declared the secret
y in our "Hamerican wooden rims"
which another sagely added, land
II Hamerican independence and clat-
r."
Not single incident occurred to mar
e pleasure Of our trip English skies
ere clear, and with the exception of a
uple Of windy days while cycling
nong the Cheshire hills the pedaling
rs OF the easiest, and from first to last
though without even a lad for es.
rt' the wheelwomen were as safe
ON any attempts at rudeness as if rid
2 protected by the queens army.
Nothing IL easier than to take the trip
aid and see dear old England in her
)st charming mood As a matter of
2t, there is absolutely no more de.
'httul or more inexpensive way to see
g wonders Of the old country. All
n Is necessary is to have warm cloth.
z, q good wheel and "a little English
Id TO pay for meals and lodging, a
N which will be bat fraction of the -,
1ense incurred for what is often in. :,
Tor accommodation in the cities. b1
N O one ran bCraa to rooT;,o A. |
OF cycling abroad until she has W
sonally experienced the unique charm NJ
old English highroads and the never ~
ing pleasure of speeding on new a,
rid wheels over old world roads.
ALICE LEE MoQUE. ar