Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-08-08
BUCKEYE DAISIES
IN OLD ENGLAND
OHIO GIRLS CAUSE SENSATION
IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL.
VISIT SHAKESPEARE HOME
Much Interested in Statuesque Sent
ne9 and Beefeater at the Tower
Delighted With the Beauties of the
Country-Visted Westminster Alb
hey and House of Parliament.

London, August THE cyclone OF
Buckeye Daisies" that passed
through this town will be forever
memorable to the Londoners who hap
pened to be in its path. There were
seventeen Of the Ohio girls, just the
number that left America with Col
C. S. Wilson, of the Ohio State Jour
nal, as their chaperone-every one a
sumner for wit and beauty, so de
clared by an overwhelming popular
vote.
London never knew before what
buckeye Daisies" were in the an
! thropologicaI sense" to borrow the
| expression of one of the learned beau
| ties. Now there are few boobies
from the Tower of Hammersmith
who are not able to sing their praise
or look gIum when they are men
toned. according to the way the cy-
| clone struck them
| Before storming London the girls
visited Stratford-on-Avon, and the
first sight they tried to see there was
Marie CorelIi. Not that they put her
| in literary precedence to Shakespeare,
but her cottage was on the way to
the bard Of Avon's' home, and they
were Just dying to see her"
The big carriage rolled up in front
Of Miss CoTeIIIs house and the merry,
chattering seventeen, with Col. Wilson
for spokesman, descended and entered
J the gate. Alas! the author of 1.-THE
Master Christian" and Temporal:
Power" was not in. So back the
girls climbed to the garden seats" on
the four-horse vehicle and consoled
themselves for their disappointment
by going to Sbakespeare's home.
Men Dowdy; Girls Nice.
They We're delighted with the beau
tiful country through which they drove
and with the kindly greetings received
from folk along the road. They con
trasted the native men with those OF
their own country, and decided that
they were not half so stylish; but the
English girls were declared nice and
their compilations just lovely, One
English girl driving a dog cart made
q hit With the "daisies' by waving ner
whip to them "soc.ably. like an Ameri
can girl" They saw women work.
ing in the fields, and frowned their
disapproval.
There was not much time to spend
in Shakespeare home, for the girls
had all of Europe to see, and the
prizes from the Columbus Evening
Dispatches were for a trip Of only sew
en- weeks. They walked reverentIy
on the fagstOnes Shakespeare trod,
and with hushed voices moved through
the room in which he wrote his plays.
On the way to London in the rail
way train they had time to talk it all
over. They exchanged views on the
fora of England and compared it with
that Of Ohio from Gallipolts on the
Kanawha to TeedIeyilIe on WeezeI
Creek. They liked the tea and bis
cult served on the train for sixpence,
but did not think the train itself
was quite up to the Twentieth Century
Limited that carried them to New
York
In London they were out bright and
early for sightseeing. The first place
on their program was the Tower AS
they were driven through the street
on top of an omnibus their gathering
tongues and laughter sounded above