New-York tribune., 1901-01-13

could see more vineyards here and there with
paths through them leading a white buff
house had subconsciousy supposed that all
foreign vineyards lovely. twisted tangles
of vines, now trailing on the ground. spreading
over wide trelises with strict regard for nothing
on a summers day" OF course everybody knows
II1ey Ioy, are n0thng OF "a nc kind ought to haye
one-stalked two feet high stiff little shrubs needn't
have been the shock they were. Soon the long
white vans grew lower and the vineyards gave
place 20 matched outhouses and barns and what
foremost b hons and e aes ai @ %0dst t IoO5 d & rs &pue
ing the street ana you go through the kitchen end.
so 10 speak, 10 reach the visitors part OF the
The blindless, blank wall Of a square. buff col
ored house at whose insignificant. weed filled yard
we presently stopped proved no exception 10 the
rule. There certainly wasn't much TO attract one.
village street OF in the narrow. brick tiled entry
were conducted. The bare walled rooms, with little
one or o strsg % ngn gar wt5 & 5satner p purs
rickety wardrobes. didn't impress us much more
ground well quite as II nothing Else could % mater ter
she walked over to one of the three windows in the
ciatively. 'have the same fine view"
VIEW FROM BEGNINs
And sure enough! Who cared for ladder stairs
stone floors scarcity of chairs and tables with
such daily. hourly outlook as that? First i'm
mediately below. the tops OF big leaved fig trees;
then stretch after stretch OF downclimbing vine
yards, and beyond, reaching OF sight on each
side, cleaning. silver blue Lake Geneva Across
cutting the golden sunset sky. q double. treble
line Of sDowcapped mountains. out Of whose midst
my year-long dreamed Mont Blanc. The beds
might turn out harder than any moral law the
food as plain the front of the house; If
sight would ask more When few minutes
aIterward, we were taken to the Terrace" not
one of us but felt we had come 20 stay-with
thaankfulness! a The Terrace OF which the street
mad given us no hint. behind and at one side
OF ne house; and was lovely garden perched
walks Ne 1,d hign ign Ps, Plstean Here were pebbled
ana the tan, one-stalked bushes where SIN
the blossoms fingered. But best OF ali were the
three summer houses One was built on the inter
laced rustic woodwork see at home: a trained
tree. helpeo out with a heavy grapevine made the
and, with its shutters and doors could he made
rain and almost cold proof.
Day after dag. sitting within them, facing the
blue Lac Leman and the mighty hills bevond We
watched the hours change the face OF the .rea,
srowcapped sentinel There was almost no day
but he came out al least by sunset 20 wish Ms
goodnight. Then the cold white peak showed al
rosy pink. hecked with golden lights that SHIN
rnered and shifted TN n pale cool lavender slinnef
IN and enwrapped all the range Al the ,1eTis5ot
they called Mont Blanc the Little Corporal
because one side Of the peak cut against the sky
silhouette whose outline exactir Ike the wei
known profile Of BOnapart-. with his three cor
nered hat on HIS head
Ny room IN Begnins was CT the ground floor
took IL because no one else seemed 20 dppreciat,
is advantages. didn't myself realize ali then
al FIRST. with its single Eigh: deep casemate,
window, and It's only door. which led immediate tel,
into lovely grape arbor II mad OF attractive
studio suggestiveness. soon found that pre-
sumably lower order Of animal also appreciated
and door had TO be KEEP; open. During the night
pulled 20 the heavy iron bound wooden shutters
but 10 DO that during the day plunged the pi9c
into gloom only desirable for a Photographic
One night. just as my first match cracked an'
0nstsged and then went out there was suddel