Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-12-12
A TRIP TO EUROPE LEI! r NO 6


lightful trip across the Baltic, and
found four letters awaiting me here,
among them yours to Christiana,
and ! certainly was glad to get them
all.
I am sorry now that we left St.
Petersburg when we did, for the
very next day they had regular
rousing time there, and / would have
liked SO much to have seen some of
that before left.
You can't imagine anything nicer
than these steamer trips. The boat
we crossed on was very small, but
everything was as complete as posi-
ble-just miniature trans Atlantic
steamer.
AS you know, it gets dark here
about 2 O'Clock, and even then it's
just like our dusk. One night sat
up nearly all night just watching the
water, which changes to all kinds of
soft colors as the light changes, and
after while the moon came up and
l think it was the most beautiful
sight ever saw. The water was all
changed to kind of purple gold.
That's as near the color as / can get.
DO you know l think that if I'd had
a pretty girl along side of me I'd
have been really poetical .As it was
came pretty near making love to
the mizzen-ma had lots of fun
} out of some girls on the way, al
though | don't know the languages.
l have picked up little Danish,
Swedish and German, 80 l could
make myself understood after fash
ion, and then you know it's $50 cute"
to make love when you don't speak
the language well, or that's what the
girls say.
There we're two French girls on
board, and one of them was a kind
of an artist. So one day she sketched
me while was asleep on deck. So
4 just spread the report that l was
an artist--one of the newspaper
kind-and then, as soon as got the
pair together, l got out my note
book and began to sketch them. OF
course they moved to the other side
of the boat, and / kept them moving
all day, for as soon as they'd get set
tied I'd let them see me behind some
corner sketching away, and l guess if
they'd seen the sketch I'd have had
to do the running.
haven't seen enough of Berlin
yet to write about, so will write Just
before we leave. From what I've
seen, though, it seems to be strictly
up-to-date town, with asphalted
pavements, etc.
doubt if l will enjoy any of my
trips as much as l did Norway and
Sweden, for it certainly is beauti-
ful country.
| bought cheap history of the
scandinavian countries, and read it
while there, and you don't know how
much it adds to the pleasure of the
trip, and if / can | am going to get
histories of Germany and Switzer-
land, and also read them as 90
along.
Berlin, July 13.-We went to
Potsdam to-day and had very nice
trip. This is the summer home of
the Kaiser and has the most beauti-
ful park imaginable and all kinds Of
little palaces, tea gardens, etc, but l
can't begin to describe, so will try
and tell you when | get home.
We also saw a very fine gallery
which belonged to Frederick the
Great. 1t contained lot of original
works by Rubens, VanDyke, Ra-
phael and Rembrandt. Raphael's
Christi was also here, and, although
it is a picture only about a foot
square, it cost Frederick the Great
10000 ducats, and now it can't be
bought for $4,000.
/ send you card which will give
you some idea of the grounds. 1t