Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-07-29
THE BLACK FOREST.
Its Waters and Dinners.
FOR HEALTH SEEK
ERs.
AUToGAsT, GERMANY,
July IA. 1898.
Its Waters and Dinners.

July IA, 1898.
EDITOR Press -
In few moments of leisure this
evidence of my recollection of
friends in Milford is written with
the hope that they be interested. l
never lose many minutes-am al
ways busy either with my pen or
paint brushes. Some pictures are
now the result of my work they
are representations of the" "Refuges
along the coast of the Mediterra-
mean Sea-
These "Refuges" are villages
built centuries ago up in the orags
the steep rocks of the mountains,
looking down on the sea, ON which
came the boats or ships OF the Tun-
isihn and Tripolean pirates, three
centuries before France took pos
session of what is known as Riviera
Those people gathered quantities of
great cobble stones, and, when the
pirates tried to climb up and attack
them they just emptied cobble
stones ON their heads, as Schley,
Sampson and Dewey have done on
the ships of the foolhardy Spaniards.
l have made sketches of the most
of them and have half a dozen fin
ished. When we were in the Sa-
hara Desert last winter we met
hotel manager who was with the
Duke of Bavaria at Bosl1ra, where
we were living. He told us about
a summer resort l had never visited
in the Duchy of Baden, so we be-
believed in him and engaged our
apartments in this hotel. We are
living at Antogast in the Black For
est. There are two springs OF
sparkling mineral water down in
the great cure hole, where there is
plenty of room TO promenade while
taking the water slowly. The water
is very agreeable. 1 like it much
better than champagne and it has a
very beneficial effect ON all who par
take of it.
In this country it is the custom of
wealthy families to send their
daughters when they reach 20 to 25
years of age to learn to cook, so
they may be competent to marry /;
they pay the proprietor of this hotel
a handsome fee and the result is
that during the three months of
Summer we are having the most de-
licious dinners, cooked by four
beautiful young ladies, who of an
evening entertain the guests with
the choicest music. l do not be
lieve there are any cooks on earth
milford, dear Milford, not except
ed) could do better, and few as we'll.
Also pastry in many varieties, and
delicate pure wines from the hill
side vineyards nearby, for little
money. }eHG
Divine services are held at the
chapel of the hotel twice in the
. week. Tuesdays for Protestants
Thursdays for Roman Catholics. 1t
is interesting to observe the neigh
, boring farmers who attend, attired
in their red and black coats, red
vests and buckskin knee -breecbes,
the costume of this part of the
: Black Forest. Sunday, of course, is
given up to music and dancing.
have just finished two or three
pictures of the country where there
are many brooks and waterfalls,
where trout of 10, 12 and 16 inches
abound-in fact they are so plenty
one can see them in the water. A
little while before supper or Dime,
they are easily taken in
nets, so that they always have them
served fifteen minutes after they
have been killed. just try to real
ize that several people in Antogast
read with interest the Pike County
PRESS. What a wide circulation
that valuable journal has. Repub-
licans, too-don't forget that? We
never suffer from heat here the
thermometer averages 20 to ~ anC
we often think how acceptable sucl
a temperature would be in Milford
Sincerely,
MAXWELL SoAIdERvILLE.
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