Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-07-20
OUR EUROPEAN TOURISTS.
Good Letter Telling of Their Rambies
on the Continent.


According to yonr request, shall
write you IL few lines, can assure you
it will be composed in haste and under
the greatest difficulties.
When one travels abroad, he realizes
that it takes all kinds of people to make
world. We have been enjoying our
selves very much and have found the
Belgians, Germans, and Austrians very
attentive.
We had peasant voyage; many old
sailors said that it was an exceptionally
smooth voyage. The service on the
steamer was very good; but before we
landed, we had to fee the stewards very
we'll for all they had done. Whoever
travels in Europe can truthfully say
that it costs something to enter Il place,
but it costs great deal more to get out
Of it, Every servant from the chamber
maid to the elevator-man expects tip.
Tho railroad and street car conductor
must be feed, il you get any kind OF
service.
We have been we'll provided for in
the hotels and have had excellent board.
In all places the breakfast consists of
rolls and coffee. Breakfast is the only
meal at which one gets tea or coffee, un-
less he pays extra for it. Luncheon
consists of four courses. We have not
had less than the following for dinner:
first course, soup; second, fish, sauce and
potatoes; third, meat and three kinds of
vegetables; fourth, chicken, lettuce and
preserves; fifth, ice-cream and waters;
sixth, fruit and nuts. Much wine is
drunk at the meals; water drinkers are
not provided for, ice being very seldom
put on the table. The vegetables are
very good and quite plentiful. The
Strawberries are very fine and large, but
are considered merely as relish; one is
expected to take no more than three or
four. At Brussels, three of our party
took eight or nine berries and the walters
were very angry.
Whenever one enters hotel, all the
men servants tip their hats. Men take
off their hats to each other in this
country and are more particular to be
polite to each other than to lady.
Women are considered as secondary
beings; American women ought to be
very proud Of their own cOuntrymen.
We believe there is no land like Ameri-
ca; these people are certainly far behind
lis in their civilization. When one rides
in the elevators, he doesn't wonder that
80 many Europeans marvel at the swift
ness Of those in America.
The laboring women work very hard
and one finds them doing all kinds Of
work. This is, indeed, land OF womens
rights; they can sweep the streets, carry
heavy loads, shovel coal, peddle milk
and be MAUD Mullers" in the hay field
However, all women do not work hard;
we have seen many handsomely dressed.
There are many very fine stores and
some in our party take great pleasure in
shopping. We have como to the con
clusion that anyone pays we'll for what
he buys.
The weather has been very fine and we
have had to wear our wraps most OF the
time. We are trying to get we'll cooled
off now so we can stand the hot Italian
sun. Our conductor, who is an Italian,
says that it will not be as warm in Italy
as it is in the United States.
The trip up the Rhine was grand.
One feels that he is in medieval times,
when he looks ut the castles centuries
old. The Rhine is a narrow river and
has many cities along it's banks. The
Laureloi, made famous by Hene and
Bingen, which has been immortelized by
the poem beginning, "A soldier of Al
giers lay dying" are two places OF marked
interest. There are many grape vines
along the banks, all the ground being
utilized.
We have visited many fine art gal
leries and have seen the original paint
ings of such artists as Rubens, Van
Dyck, Wiertz, Rembrandt, CorregiO,
Teniers, etc. In the gallery at Antwerp
we were especially interested in seeing
a man, who was born armless, hold the
brushes with his toes and make COPY
OF one OF the pictures. The picture
gallery in Dresden is very fine and is
considered rival OF tho Louvre in
Paris. Among the original paintings in
this collection are Raphael's Sistine
Madonna. Dolci's st. Cecilia, Murllo's
Madonna and the Child, Muncasky's
Crucitixion, The Chocolate Girl, which
ia used in the advertisements OF Bakers
chocolate, and many others.
The Royal Palace at Berlin is we'll
worth seeing. Before going into any of
the rooms, wollen slippers must be put
on, so that the hard wood floors may not
be injured. The rooms are very large
and beautifully decorated, and you feel
that you are IN the house Of royalty.
In Berlin we went 10 the mausoleum
which contains the bodies OF Frederick
William ILL.,, Queen Louise, William |.
and Queen Augusta. In visiting this
beautiful home for the dead, one is i'm
pressed with the fact that all must die.
On Queen Louise's slab is inscribed,
Gas God has willed, so it has happened"
In Vienna We visited the imperial
tombs and saw the urns in which the
hearts OF all the emporers are kept.