The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-05-16

Latin quarter of Paris, the home of art
and music, and these freaks of long
hair and red whiskers are the future
Rubens and De Reszkys. Our friends
inform US that American boys who
come over here are no exceptions, that
they soon adoptthese outlandish habits.
During the eight days spent in Paris
We visited the tomb of Napoleon, the
Louvre Gallery, the palaces at Yer
sailles, and other points of interest, BE-
side spending much time in the stores
shopping with our Celtic ladies and |
getting acquainted with the French |
method Of business, even visiting Q |
large dressmaking establishment where |
our friends purchased garments-deli- |
cate evening costumes, costing several
hundred dollars each.
Paris is not cheap place to shop.
Its the home and center of style, but
not of business. Theirsmethods OF con-
Quoting business do not compare with
American methods. The Bon Marche
and Louvre are not to be compared
with Marshall Fields and Wanamak-
er's. Kid gloves are much cheaper,
and silks and woolens some cheaper
than in protected America Shoes are
higher, and 1t was with pleasure we
noted that the best shoe stores adver-
tised American shoes.
Leaving Paris. via Rouen and Dieppe,
we cross the English channel go miles)
to New Haven, where we take a fast
train for Victoria Station, London.
Here are omnibuses for all over Lon
don. They hold % people---l2 inside
and IA on top. The fare Is penny on
top and . ''tup-pence" inside two
Icents and four cents American money!.
1t Is remarkable how we'll two horses
viii carry such q load along. This is
the mode Of travel for all London.
American enterprise has opened sy s.
tenn of underground electric lines, but
they are not yet In general use.
1t is rainy, sloppy, foggy and smoky
pretty much all the time, and there is
mar ked contrast between the city and
people we have just left and those we
see here. The fine forms and perfec,
fitting costumes of the French women
have been succeeded by the sharp. an
gular figures of our English cOusins
with their light hair, strawberry com
plexions and ill-fitting clothes. But fol
all that we welcome the change, fol
this is the first country we have visited
that we can converse with the people
ask questions, read signs and upder
. stand what the people are talking
. about.
One of the first places We visit IL
London is the British Museum. now o
double interest, because of its collection
!, of Grecian and Egyptian antiquities.
Here is Lord Elgin's room of Athen
ian statusry, stolen from the Acropolis
~ Here is the celebrated Portland vase
found In marble sarcophsgus in tn
Monte del Grano, near. Rome, AM
which was broken into q thousan,
pieces in 1S45, but has been set togethe
again, and is the finest work of its kin,
in existence. OF special interest to u
in the Egyptian quarter is the fsmou
Rosetta stone, found by the French II
the River Nile in 1899 A. d. Inscribe,
, lon the stone is q decree made 1876 B. c.
and addressed In three different Ian
Rusges by the priesthood Of Memphis
one In Greek, one In the Breistl
writings aud one in Egyptian chsrae
ters. By reason of this stone, whic
7 furnishes the key to the Egyptia
hieroglyphics, all the writings in tn
tombs and on the monuments are trans
. lated.
Here are hundreds of clay cones an
tablets in Egyptian characters from th
kings of Mesopotamia and the 60,
> ernors of the cities of Syria and Pale,
= tine to Amemophis III. and w., king
of Egypt b. c. 1850. Translated, the
;, report the military and political cond
ton OF countries and cities under thei
charge.
We went to the r som races. abor
Twenty miles out from London, an
were fortunate in getting to see th
. King, who occupied the Royal Bo
IL with some ladies of the Royal family
Part of the time he was down in tn
= stands with some of Englapd's aristo.
!, racy, among which we had pointed ou
to US Lord Roseberry and Leopol
. ROthschild. We were told King Ed
- ward walks out TO the paddock TO Sc
- the horses and mingles with the crow
y unattended. From expressions b
. seems TO be very popular with the pei
pie.
70 Leaving London from Paddingto
!. station for Liverpool, we pass for mile
through green fields, and by elegan
homes extending clear to Oxford
" Much of the ground is kept moved lik
lawn, and we only saw q couple {
fields of plowed ground all the way {
Liverpool.
= An Englishman told US they coul
% buy corn and wheat cheaper than the
could raise it, and that live stock wa
in such demand that only pasture pul
poses was made of their lands
q Passing Oxford with Its red brio
Is houses, bennington, Stratford ON tn
}, Avon, where many stop of to see tn
l home of Shakespeare, we come I
l. Birmingham, the famous iron and stee
. manufacturing city, iron and steel be
+ ing shipped from here all over th