The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-14
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scenery is beautifully groomed and highly cultivated Never see anything but patches of woods: nothing indefi- nite about them. as in America. From Abby. Scott's house on the Tweed, and Dryburg Abby At the latter place stopped at a typical Scotch house and had "scones'" and tea IA scone is a cross between pie crust and bread, Went into the house. It had but two rooms-the living room and the store room. There were two hunks in each of the rooms. against the wall. where the family slept.
 Edinburg was spoken of as a lovely city. one of the most beautiful in=Eusr rope A party of gentlmen and ladies took a coach ride about the city. One of the party with Judge Curtis and Mir. Hill was an old man from Tas- mania. there was a chap from New Zealand, a lady from Washington. D. C., and lady from Ottawa, Canada While visiting the Trossachs the Judge happened to speak of New Haven. when a couple of ladies mentioned they were from Danbury. One of these was first cousin to Judge Scott She said she could understand New Haven, but she dId not expect to hear of Bridgeport, Some weeks after these same two ladies entered a res taurant in Paris where Judge Curtis and MT. Hin were taking dinner While in Scotland Judge Curtis met MT. Elm ory, the Chief Justice of Maine He had been some weeks in London, studying the courts and the procedure He remarked: Curtis. we don't have to take our hats of to any of them" Glasgow, Durham and York were wis ited- The many statues and monu- ments to public men impressed Judge Curtis as being very common and costly He found the cathedral at Durham vast and wonderfully impress sive- He was shown the grave of Venerable Bede. The verger said that one American remarked that he did not know Adam Bede was buried in that cathedral. The verger thought this was a wonderful exhibition of fig norance, but Judge Curtis was of the opinion the joke was on the verger. { A week or so was spent in London, which Judge Curtis said is indescrib- able. He had the pleasure of meeting Ambassador Reid. and through him got an invitation from the Speaker of the House to occupy a seat in the gallery reserved for distinguished visitors. He found two streets in London, one of which was called Plugging Lane and the other Lovers Lane and they were close together. He saw the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords sit- ting on his woolsack- He said of England that there Is no impression of crowding in that country: no im- pression of poverty. and that every where one sees a beautiful use of
 
 in America, in the English sense. A day was spent at the Hague, in Hol- land, a most beautiful place, and the hall where the court of arbitration sits was visited, The walls are cov- cred with historical scenes represent ing many battles in most vivid colors "a very strange place for peace congress to hold it's sessions The palaces in Europe are no better than our houses at Newport and Lenox Judge Curtis gave a brief description of his visit to Brussels, the field of Waterloo. Cologne. Bonn. sail up the Rhine to Munich. to various places in Switzerland, to Venice and then back to Paris and so home
 One evening in Munich he attended Wagner opera. in a theatre where all the seats are on the ground floor, all of the same price. and one Is as good as another. It is the custom in this place for the people to stand up be- tween the acts. to look at each other the finely dressed ladies' to show their costumes. and the men to be admired by the ladies. The city has 500 900 inhabitants, only 60.O00 of whom are Protestants- The Judge was aston ished to see what huge crops of wheat oats and barley are raised in Europe and he has learned that more of these grains are grown there than in Amer ica- After the lecture the club extend ed a vote of thanks to the Judge.