Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-11
THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
1T CLEANS LIKE A DIAMOND ON THE
BREAST CT TIE SEA.

Nhe Beauties of Co,Yes. the Fashion
able Ta-s.isp Resort. where ta.is-.
Ing Ever Gct- nist5'--Wb;,t Onr MAY
See on the Historic lAlund.
The Isle of Wight i; shaped like y
diamond, aud like Il diamond it g.Si;.,s;
Like Il diamond, too. it l., tlic lu..a.y OF
the rich.
AS your steamer approaches .i,' ra- |
stead of Cowes you might well .'G,n.,. :.
the little town to be Il fasi,io.,..!,.. =
let far inland on the bank of :, l.y.t
The esplanade looks as near 10 the
water as II towpath, and the green
woods that rise behind the white
houses are as thickly punched and us
brightly verdunt as the unsaited trees
dark sailed smack of the sea fisherman
Is a rare sight on those social waters.
Everywhere you behold among hover
ing gulls and rocking buoys the craft
of pleasure and the shipping of de-
light. White yachts, with sails as
white as summer clouds, ride there
with the grace of swans, and white
steam yachts, with brasswork flash
ing blindly in the sun, rest royalty at
anchor off that little shore.
Nothing ever gets dirty at Cowes.
The tamarsk which lifts its fine feath-
ers above walls at the seas edge is as
clean as the sails of the yachts. The
roads of red gravel make neither mud
nor dust and lie rs smoothly as gar
den paths. The Virginia creepers.
which swarm up the pillars of white
houses, overspread the tiers of bal
comics and almost cover the dark red
tiles Of the roofs, are every whit as
green and every title us radiant as
| the shaver lawns beside the esplanadc.
Flowers there are at every point of
| view-red' Geraniums, golden calceolarii
rs, blue lobelias, crimson hyssop, ched-
dar pinks, roses of every hue and ferns
Of every form-growing in neat flower
beds, lifting their bright. colors above
garden walls and swaying gently in
baskets hung from balcony and sill
The windows of the shops are as
polished as lady's mirror and shine
in the sun. Prosperity waits behind
those counters of plenty and puts itself
completely and genially ut the com.
mand of the wealthy. The butcher and
the greengrocer announce to the pass
erby that French and German are
spoken in their establishments. The
yacht Of the most necessitous million
aire can obtain in those narrow, clear
streets all that she desires. Royal war
rants, as big almost rs the shops them
selves, CLEAN over shop fronts, and ar
tistic signboards obtrude from thu
smart little doorways. The shine OF
the sweet windows is magic, induce
ment to buy.
On the esplanade, where Is tai
white Flagstaff at every few PAGES, ant
waiting Mt the little granite stairs
washed by green waters, you meet IL,
burly and rough clad fishermen. bu
only the white capped, blue jerseyet
hands from the crews of yachts in til,
roadstead. Fresh faced, well groomet
girls walk there with indulgent papas
and jolly schoolboys in fannels, carry
Ing paper bags Of green gooseberrie
and red cherries, stroll down to til
dingey at the stairs, munching as the.
60. There is no haste and no exertiol
at Cowes. At half past u on Lowell.
morning heard in my hotel the voice
of the manageress giving an order t,