The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-09-13
ALErrERFR GERMANY

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Angust nth 1909 MY Mother started
- write but feels too tired to do so.
40 will act as her substitute we
only STAYED one day at Duesseidori anu
took in the Fair Austellins' u was
very fine Well we have seen some OF 1ne
neautitul Rhine but, OF course. the
nrett;est is vet coming from mere
10 Mainz. among all the mountains
and every mountain, nearly mas
lovely Castle on il. And then. tnere
are 40 many pretty islands all along
the river. Bown is lovely place anu
must say the people are so mucn
nicer in the Rhine land then ~
Saxony every town in fact Is 80
nice. The looks OF all OF them 10
better. Yesterday and to-day we
were TO the old Kircheloff Graveyard
where 40 many great men, Pacts ana :,
Musicians and all are buried Set
Schuemain. Chaplin, Mendelssohn are
there. And Mamma took pictures OF
! their graves with me in the picture
We visited Beethoven 8 old nome
| where he was born. The house has only
three rooms, two down stairs and one
little one up stairs that ne was born
In. Ii looks so lonely up there as IL
is all bare, only large bust of HIM in
il ana Mat lying on TIE floor
The house is turned into Museum
now with all the things he used to
have in it.
His last old piano, on which hs
played little, his ear drums which
was given to him by King as he
was quite deaf in his last years, and
lot Of Manuscript OF his pieces and
instruments Of his and lots Of other
things. The old lady living there now
was 50 good to as you know nobody
il allowed 70 walk iato this
room. There Il cord across the door
But | was SO Interested that | walked
right in and began counting the boards
in the floor there are in all fifteen and
] the lady signed her name 10 all the
! pictures We bought 10 show that we
really was there OF course, when
, cot finished counting the boards she
came and said no one was allowed in
there but she was too late As / was
It finished aud had all / wanted The
2 room smells so old and mouldy / got
n a slip of ivy that grew around the
d house. intend to keep it and have it
grow.
Mannheim August 18TH ! missed
n mailing the above letter so / will add
few lines. We travelled all day
Yesterday on the beautiful Rhine and
:. arrived at Mannheim late Well, we saw
i grand sights The castles We're the
incest ever saw Last night we wsre
to STAY in Mainz, as the Emperor Of
Germany was to come the sam,
evening to Mainz When we 20
ne there we saw all the decorations an,
< the town was 80 Illuminated will
IN ght that we thought we would com
Tx right through as the town would b
over crowded and hard 20 get room
st NJ ainz il built on aide bill so whe
our boat came in and went out OF tn
-, pier we saw everything worth seeins
ANYWAY. We made short stay a
Manheain then came TO Heidelbeg
~ We have had lovely time here All
saw such grand sights. We were a
through the Heidelberg Schluss,
ruined castle But they show YOU a
over IT, They are always repairing o
at il TO keep it MP and there are brac,
rly all over so il will not fall dowi
.as Mamma got lost ia ii she was so scare
ny until found her She got 80 interest,
ms in the things and got left behind
pc thought she was in front with ii
ms crowd but instead Of that she ".
PIN behind. Yesterday we went by ira.
rs to Neekergemnrt little drof town,
Sc little way mp the Necker From the
NY We took small boat to a lit
lth Castle Schbuss called Schualbeume
Gnu Swallow nest. II was lovely such nj
Vue little boat ride among the mountain
aIs The trip only cost one mark, % cent
inS each We were there all aftern 90
ile In the evening we returned
urn Mannheim where we spent pleS
- ant evening with a lot Of new arrivi
80" from Berlin and Leipsic. They