The National tribune., 1909-11-04

reDresontatiVe of Mr.. Boyer. arrangeS
your trip for you. You tell her where
YOU want to go and how many days you
can spend in getting there She takes
map, and points out to you what she
considers the best and prettiest route.
and she writes. telephones and tele-
graphs ahead to secure rooms for you
at all the hotels where you spend the
night, informs all the innkeepers what
day you Will have dinner with them,
arranges foT fresh horses and for your
passage on the little ford steamers, for
part of such Il "trip is usually taken on
these steamers, which touch at so many
| OF the little fishing villages on the mar
row fjords where the scenery Is maSnifi-
cent You pay her for the entire trip
ours was from Molde to Bergen-and
! she hands YOU Il little book filed with
tchecks. which YOU tear out and give to
! the driver OF your stollijaerre, the hotel
man. the steamboat man, etc. You
have absolutely nothing to do yourself
except put yourself in the stolkjaerre
or on the boat, and all you are obliged
| TO pay out extra is your fees. Just see
how simple it Is! A trip of any length
can BE- arranged in this way, and, what
| is best of all. you can be absolutely
sure that everything going to turn
out just as You have been told II would:
at least, 50 We have been informed by
those who have made these driving ex-
| petitions.
! After completing the arrangements
| for this trip and being assured by the
rosy-cheeked. intelligent young woman
that she really thought the weather
was going to be pleasant, she called a
carriage for us, u victor and two
horses, and we went to drive. Molde
is a lovely little place, as think have
already remarked. but there isn't much
| .n COO has about 9 600 iQnaD-
itants only, and depends much upon its
Summer visitors for its revenues. AT
| that season the two principal hotels,
the Grand and Hotel Alexandria, ana
most of the four other hosteieries are
filed with tourists going and coming,
and a right smart little trade is done
by the keepers of the pretty stores. l
have told you how attractiyely II vas
situated right on the Molde Fjord, and
there are some charming walks and
pretty drives 1t is quite a little BIT
south of Trondhjem, and its location
shelters it from the north and west
storms, so the vegetation is the most
Iluxuriant VIC have yet seen. Roses
abound, and some OF the pretty houses
Iare covered with honeysuckle. Pines,
| hirches, orse-chestnuts, ashes, cherry
trees and some naples and larches are
seen in abundance, and these look Vig-
orous and healthy. 1t is too far south
for the inhabitants to have continuous
night in Winter, as they do farther
north. but during that season have the
light from about 10 a. m. to = p. m,
which is much better than nothing.
We took Il drive out into the country
along the fjord, passing many very
pretty homes. One of these. the dwell
| ing of the Spanish Consul, was very at
tractive and Frenchy. being of light
pink, situated in the midst of a charm
| ing garden. The sun continued to shine,
and we thoroly enjoyed the drive, but
nothing at all exciting occurred, and
we got back to the hotel in good time
| for supper. For this we made no
toilet, and joined the silent crowd of
Germans, Norwegans, English and
| Americans, when the bell summoned
us to this repast.
When We entered Elizabeth's room
after supper-her room is larger than
mine and besides has a lovely view OF
| the fjord-I went at once to the Win
dow and looking out exclaimed, the
Amazon is gonew All during the day,
whenever we had been in the room
the big white ship making a very pretty
picture as she lay at anchor in the blue
iwater. Elizabeth now hurried to the
window and said in rather sad tone.
it seemed to me, why, so she is; 1
wonder when she went?" and over us
both / think there stole Il feeling, mo-
mentary tho it was, of melancholy re-
gret, that we would never see the beau
tiful ship again.
1t is cold tonight and we have given
our hot-water bags to the pretty Nor
wegian maid TO have them filed. EliZ-
abeth has now retired and l have come
into my own room. We leave MOlde
tomorrow at five p. m. for Vestnes,
which is only trip of As minutes in
little steamer. From that place we
begin our driving. That is enough for
you to know now; I'll tell you more
in my next letter. It's all going TO be
dandy, 1 am sure, if we only have good
| weather How many times have L