The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-11-14
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Woman Tells CT Ills Visit to Wie.ou 81
Great Con-roser.

CrezI So,' cSef.
+ u bile We We're j. .1cr-tu We we're
invited OFT II iun .cGH With Ma,:ane
Greis. Their hcGle lies OFT ia the
country, ;sto.i: Il is,t !oIr's Iii2 rom
BERGEN and on re banks cf a zig
lake. We were received ~ MaGanls
GrelS Al t!.c station. ana a.,er a walk
! OF twenty minutes we came 10 th2ir
charming, villa.
AS We came to The -, GO led
IL; through the garden We we're
SHOWN big tree where Greis always
had sign in four languages, read
ms. MIR Edward Greig is not at
nome IL any one before p. M" You
hio" he was sick man, and he was
50 bothered by tourists that he found
IL necessary to protect himself that
way. Aatame Greig received us in
the big living room, which loving
1rlencs had fairly flied with blooming
plants for her first lonely Homecoming
The day before. Naturally she was
very sad, but as We were all friends
VINO hau known and loved Greis 1t
was aei sad pleasure to see us and to
talk OF him. She showed us every
little detail of the room.
After our coffee We all, with the
exception of Madame Greig, went to
visit the little house where Greis did
most OF his composing We had to
descend steps and winding walks I'M
III at the end of the big garden on
IF h. lol.
PLAIN little house consisting of one
room. the holy OF holies." Opposite
the door was one large window, in
'front.' OF which stood d pain deal table
with small armchair and a foostool.
VI the table were his pens and pen
ellis. pot of glue, blotter, paper weight
everything that he used. The whole
room had the air CT being left only
lor short while and of waiting for
Hls return. On each side of the win
COW was place tor set of shelves,
"nere he kept his scores. BY the
door was another SCI of shelves. where
Were all his manuscripts l asked Il
1t were not dangerous to leave his
original works SO unprotected. l was
told that the Norwegian folk are so
honest that no one would think of TAX
ing them.
AS an example of Greig's humor we
were shown slip OF paper on his
desk on which he had written the fol-
lowing: TO anyone who may enter
here: Please take anything that may
please your fancy, but kindly leave
me my manuscripts. which are of in
terest to no one but myself" He al
ways left that slip there when he
went away. The rest OF the furni-
ture Of the room consisted of a sofa.
two chairs and little cid cracked
upright piano that he said was good
enough to compose on
From there We went across the
garden, pas. the house where We saw
Madame Greig's face smiling sadly
at Us out OF the window down to the
other side of the water In the side
Of cliff about fifty feet high lying
about twenty-five feet from the ground
We saw stone slab cemented solidly
In the cliff with the inscription Ed
''oAN 0AAO6. ACiS, lOOhluS Out over
the beautiful lake, in the midst OF pine
trees, with only nature for his COM
panions, the rough. rugged Norwegian
nature that gave him his birth and
whose beauties ne made known to the
world in his music-there he wished
% lie, and there lies.
Below us, on the edge of the water.
we're two wOrkmen shove.ling broken
stone into the water by the landing
place. We were told that Grieg wished
o be alone there, and that was being
lone to prevent beats from landing.
The slab is about five feet square. Be-
heath it We hung the wreath with the
American colors which we took with
IS. After half hour CT more with
Ime. Greig, we walked to the station
md took the train to town. AS we
oiled ont of the station We saw that
onely little black figure waving
afewell from the platfcrln.-Mrs.
,harles Cahier in Indianapolis News.